56 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODBS. 



wide firm thin-coriaceous sparsely and minutelyscaly beneath 

 lanceolate cuspidato-acuniinate gradually attenuated below 

 costate^ veins copiously anastomosing, areoles with or with- 

 out free veinlets, sori large compital partially sunk in a cavity 

 prominent at the back oval or subrotund arranged within 

 a network of compound areoles intermediate between the 

 costa and margin, in an early stage covered M'ith scales, cap- 

 sules mixed with copious abortive filaments. — Cav. Sw. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 26. Willcl. Sp. PL v. p. 57- Langsd. and Fisch. Ic. Fil. 

 p. 8. /. 6. Metten. Pohjp. p. 90. Hook. Fil. Ejot. p. 90. 

 Raddi, Fil. Braz. p. 14. t. 24. /. 1. Pleopeltis, Hook, and 

 Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 67. Phlebodiura, J. Sni. Drynaria, Fee. 

 Polypod. cuspidatum, Pr. Reliq. Hmik. p. 20. t. \.f. 3, and 

 P. stigmaticum, Pr. I. c. j). 20. t. S.f. 2. P. avenium, Desv. 



Hal). Tropical America, frequent : Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos, Brazil, New 

 Granada, Guiana, etc. 



32.3. P. (Phymatodes) lepidotum, Willd. ; caudex long-creep- 

 ing paleaceous with lanceolate acuminate denticulated ferrugi- 

 nous scales, stipites remote 1-2—4 inches long,fronds coriaceo- 

 carnose 3-9 inches long j-| of an inch wide lanceolate more 

 or less acuminate long and gradually attenuated at the base 

 on both sides especially beneath often sinuato-dentate or even 

 pinnatifid almost furfuraceous with copious orbicular ovate 

 small appressed peltate scales dark in the centre pale in the 

 circumference and denticulate, veins immersed very indis- 

 tinct (" maculae Phlebodii," Metten.), sori generally very 

 large and often exceedingly prominent pulvinate globose 

 or oval occupying the upper half of the frond. — Willd. in 

 Schlecht. Adumbr.p. 17. ^.8. Metten. Polyp. p. 88. P. ma- 

 crocarpum, Willd. Sp. Pl.x.p. 147. Pleopeltis, A"//;?. Polyp, 

 lanceolatum, Sv:>. Syn. Fil. p. 26. Willd. Sp. PI. Y.p. 153 

 {excl. syn. Linn., Plum., and Petiv.). Pleopeltis, Klfs. Polyp, 

 marginale, Willd. Sp. PL y.p. 149. Pleopeltis and P. linearis, 

 Klfs. P. ensifolia, Hook. Ex. FL t. 62. Grammitis revoluta, 

 Willd. Sp. PL v.p. 139. Pleopeltis Kaulfussiana, Pr. Po- 

 lypod. leucosporum, Kl. in Linncea, xx. p. 404. Metten. Polyp, 

 p. 89. 



Hab. Bourbon, Bory, in Herb, nosh: Soutli Africa, Munclt and Maire, Drege 

 and Zeyher, etc. Mosamballa Hill, Zambesi Mission, alt. 3000-3500 feet. Kirk. 

 Madagascar, Lyall. St. Helena, Hooker fil. (on Diana's Peak), Seemann. Tris- 

 tan d'Acunba, Carmichael. Sierra Leone, Barter. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 

 9000 feet, Nilghiri, G. Thomson, in Herb. Hook., and the Rev. Mr. Johnson, the 

 only locality known in India. South America : Jamaica, Swartz, March, Wil- 



