POLYPODHTM, § IMIYMATODES. Gl 



Singajjore, Low ; Mcigui, (iriffilli. — I fear tlicre is some mistake in specimens of 

 tliis plant marked n." 285 "in Wallicli's Cat. Tlie same iuiml)er is given to 

 Wallich's Polyp, coronans, a native of " Kumaoii." This is only found, I believe, 

 in Malaya. 



331. P. (Phymatodes) sorideus, Hook.; caudex creeping 

 criiiite with aureo-nitent slender subulate scales, stipites 1-3 

 inches long, fronds 4-12 inches long not exceeding h an inch 

 wide coriaceous glabrous narrow-lanceolate gradually long 

 and finely acuminated much and gradually attenuated below 

 thickened at the margin entire except at the upper and fer- 

 tile portion which has the margin distantly sinuato-dentate 

 each tooth bearing a sorus, venation sometimes very distinct, 

 costules quite veniform anastomosing so as to form mode- 

 rately-sized but very irregular areoles rarely including a free 

 veinlet, sori rather small orbicular compital sunk in a deep 

 cavity which forms a corresponding small but very elevated 

 sack or i)ouch on the upper side and always within the tooth 

 at the margin.— TxVB. CCLXXXIIl. B. 



Hal). Borneo, Wallace. Sarawak, on trees, Thos. Lobb. — A most distinct and 

 very pretty species, not easily confounded with any other. The scales of the cau- 

 dex are setaceo-villose, of a golden-tawny colour, and the fronds are remarkable 

 for the projecting, rounded, remote teeth, each one deeply impressed with a sorus. 

 Mr. Wallace's specimens are very opaque, and the venation not traceahle ; those 

 of Mr. Lobb exhibit very distinct veins. 



332. P.(Phymatodes)5mwo5?«w,Wall,; caudex much branched 

 long-creeping or scandent on trees sparingly radiculose h an 

 inch to 2 inches thick almost woody when dry probably car- 

 nose when recent studded as it were with large conical processes 

 upon which the stipites are or have been articulated and which 

 appear to increase much in size after the fronds have fallen, the 

 whole densely covered (as it were tessellated) with nearly or- 

 bicular appressed whitish peltate scales with a dark spot in the 

 centre, stipites 1-2 inches long glabrous and scaleless, fronds 

 subdimorphous subcoriaceo-nieinbranaceous glabrous; sterile 

 ones .i-0-7 inches long fj-l inch broad sul)elliptical oblong 

 obtuse {^.niwc; fertile ones longer sometimes a foot-lG inches 

 long h-'^ of an inch wide linear-elongato-oblong obtuse the 

 margins more or less sinuated the base in both attenuato-de- 

 current, venation cojnous anastomosing forming large very 

 irregular areoles filled with lesser ones (formed by more 

 slender veins) and these include branched or simple veinlets 

 which occasionally again anastomose, sori remote large ol)long 

 immersed in a cavity which forms pustules on the upper sitle 



