58 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODES. 



cinna, Paj^pe and Rawson, in Herb, nostr.) ; Natal, Gueintzius ; Fernando Po, alt- 

 3000 feet, St. Thomas, alt. 5000 feet, G. Mann. — This most variahle and widely 

 diffused species was first well distinguished by us in Exot. Fl. f. 63, under the 

 name of PleopeUis nuda, so called on account of its similarity in size and shape 

 with the PL ensifolia, Carm., in the same work, t. 62 (our preceding species, P. 

 lepidotum), but it is destitute of the furfuraceous scales which so readily distin- 

 guish that. I fear all the above synonyms can only be considered as referring to 

 forms of one and the same species. The largest size, with the most niemltrana- 

 ceous fronds, are the P. sesquipedale. Wall. ; but between them and our Pleop. 

 nuda, 1. c, there are all intermediate grades. 



325. P.(Phymatodes) attenuatum, Br. ; caudex long creeping 

 paleaceous with subulate scales, fronds scattered but approxi- 

 mate a span to H ft^ot long \ an inch wide firm-coriaceous 

 glossy linear-loriform scarcely acuminated acute the base at- 

 tenuated into a short stipes, costa stout prominent beneath, 

 veins subuniformly reticulated with no free included veinlets, 

 sori copious large elliptical very prominent in a single series 

 between the costa and the veins. — Br. Prodr. Nov. HoIL p. 

 146 {not of Hook. Ic. PL t.409,7ior Gen. FiL t. 71, nor of AIL 

 Cunningham nor of Richard, which are Dictymia lanceolata, 

 J. Sm.,and Polyp. Cunninghami of this work, from Neiv Zea- 

 land). Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 30. Dictyopteris, Pr., Moore. 

 Polyp. Brownianum, Spr. fide Pr. P. Brownii, " Wickstr." 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 85, but evidently, from the references, in- 

 cluding our Polyp. Cunninghami. 



Hab. New Holland : Port Jackson, Brown, Sieber, Fraser, and others ; Hast- 

 ings river, Dr. Beckler ; Victoria, F. Mueller. Fiji Islands, Milne, Seemann, n. 

 723 (" Phymatodes stencphylla"). — Much confusion has arisen on the identifica- 

 tion of this plant from too brief a character of the learned author of it, so that 

 it has been confounded with a somewhat allied but very different species, the 

 P. Cunnir.ghami of New Zealand. It is to be hoped that our figures and more 

 ample characters of the respective kinds will remove all future difficulty on that 

 point. 



326. p. (Phymatodes) Cunninghami, Hook.; caudex short 

 small scaly but apparently sending out runners which again 

 produce other such bulb-like scaly caudices, stipites short 

 tufted, fronds 5-10 inches long lanceolate acuminate glabrous 

 long and narrowly attenuated at the base subcarnoso-coria- 

 ceous opaque costate, veins uniformly reticulated with elon- 

 gated large hexagonal areoles longest at the costa, sori rather 

 distant in two series broad oval or subrotund prominent 

 compital, capsules on long pedicels very numerous and mixed 

 with jointed hairs. — Hook., under P. attenuatum, t. 30 of Gard. 

 Ferns. Polypod. attenuatum, T^ic/^, i^/. A^. Zea/.jo. 62. Hook. 

 Ic. PL t. 409 {not of Br.), eicl. the syns. and the locality of 



