son; New Granada, Moritz, n. 'i\, 6, 82, 300 (I', leiicosponim, A7.), Fendler, n. 

 2i9, Pitrdie ; Guiana, Rick. Schomlmrijk, n. 1188; Siirinatn (Mif/nfil) ; Brazil, 

 (iartl)ier,n. 193; Ecnador, Jawoson, Spruce, n. 5243 ami 5214 (deeply and irre- 

 gnlarly pinnatifid, some segments 1^ inch long) ; Peru, Tarapota, ^"^rMce ,- Juan 

 Fernandez, Bertero ; Mexico, frequent. Central America, Cumim/, n. 128(1. 

 Sandwich Islands, Nutlall. — Schlechtenilal has great merit in elahorating the 

 synonymy of this plant, and has selected a very appropriate name. It is well 

 distinguished among the simple-fronded species of this group hy its small, co- 

 pious, appressed scales, which are seldom wholly deciduous. It is more or less 

 fleshy and liahle to produce elongated segments at the margin, constituting an ali- 

 normally pinnatifid frond. 



324. P. (Phymatodes) Joriforine, Wall. ; caudcx creeping 

 blackish paleaceous with rather small dirty-brown ovato-lan- 

 ceolate scales, stipites subaggregated a few lines to 1-2 inches 

 long, fronds extremely variable in size and texture from 3-4 

 inches to H foot and from \ of an inch to nearly 2 inches wide 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate coriaceous and opaque or co- 

 riaceo-membranaceous or quite membranaceous bluntly or 

 sharply acuminated, much and gradually attenuated at the 

 sometimes quite sessile Ijase, the margin entire or subsinuate, 

 venation reticulated with included free veinlets but there are 

 primary veins which form large costal areoles including the 

 lesser ones and the compital sori, sori often much sunk (with 

 protuberances at the back) forming a single series nearer the 

 costa than the margin varying much in size, when young 

 partially covered with very compact peltate scales which are 

 soon deciduous, then the sori become very large and pulvi- 

 uate.—JValL Cat. n. 271. Metten. Polyp. p. 92. t. \.f. 49, 50. 

 Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 14, P. leiopteris, A^e. m Linn(ea,'s.\\\'\. 

 p. 319. Metten. Fit. Ilort. Lips. p. M). t. 25./. 37-39 [excel- 

 lent for a medium-sized specimen). Pleopeltis nuda. Hook. 

 Ex. Fl.p. 63, and Gen. Fil.f. 18 [not Polyp. xwiAnm, Metten.) . 

 Lepisorus, J. Sni. Drynaria, Fee, Gen. Fit. p. 270. Polyp, 

 nudiusculum, Kzc. in Linncea, xxiv. p. 253. P, sesquipedale, 

 ll'a//. Cut. p. 275. Metten. Polyp, p. 91. P. excavatum, 

 inild. Sp. PI. V. p. 15S. Lepisorus,./.,^//?. Polyp, gladiatum. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 279. P. phlebodes, Kze., Metten. Polyp, p. 92. 

 P. atro-punctatum, Hook, and Arii. Hot. Beech. Voy. p. 103. 

 P. lineare, Tli. Jap. p. 335, Ic. t. 19. Pleopeltis elongata, 

 Klf's. Drynaria, Brack. Polyp. Gueintzii, Metten. Polyp. 

 p.'9\. 



Hal). India, common in all the hilly and moimtain regions (as recorded in " (iard. 



Ferns" under t. 1 -«) from 5000-10,000 feet of alt. Ceylon, Sumaira, China, Japan, 



Pacific Ocean, Hourhon, and Mauritius. Abyssinia, Sclihnper (P. phlebodes, Kzc). 



South Africa : Kaffraria, Cato, IHIiO. large, nearly 2 inches broad (Pleni)eltis con- 



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