62 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODES. 



arranged in a single series nearer the margin than the costa. 

 —Wall. Cat. n. 2231. 



Hab. Straits of Malacca. Finlayson, Griflith. Araboyna, ex Herb. Webb, De 

 Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 321. Isle of Jobi, Barclay. New Hebrides, C. Moore. 

 Mergui, Parish.* Java, Zollinger, n. 80G. — In general form tbe fronds have some 

 affinity with those of Polypodium stenophyllum, with much larger sori and much 

 less deeply sunk ; but the thick, woody, scandent caudex is very remarkable, like 

 some mammillate Euphorbia, having conical spine-like processes, from which 

 the fronds originate. There is, however, an example of the same kind of caudex 

 figured and described by Blume ;^Fil. Jav. t. 94), of which more will be said under 

 our Polyp, lomarioides, Kze. n. 366. 



333, p. (Phymatodes) Griffithianum, Hook. ; caudex long 

 creeping paleaceous with long subulate ferruginous scales, 

 stipites very remote ^-Q inches long, fronds chartaceo-coria- 

 ceous glabrous 6-8 inches long 1 1-2 inches broad oblongo- or 

 ovato-lanceolate entire or obsoletely crenate acuminate cune- 

 ate at the base sometimes glaucous beneath, the margin thick- 

 ened, costules very distinct straight prominent beneath, the 

 rest of venation less distinct more or less anastomosing with 

 copious free veinlets in the areoles, sori very large globose 

 compital forming a single series on each side of and close to 

 the costa, — Hook. Ic. PL t. 951 {or Cent, of Ferns, t. 51). 



Hab. India: on trees, Boutan and Mishmee, Griffith, Booth ; Khasya, Grif- 

 fith, Mrs. Mack, Hooker fit. and Thomson (the glaucous state of the plant). — 

 Very unlike any other Indian species, yet in habit resembling the P. glaucophyl- 

 lum, Kze. in Schk. Fil. i. t. 93, from South America; but that belongs to the 

 Goniophlebium section. 



334. P. (Phymatodes) crassifoUum, L. ; caudex short 

 creeping soft-paleaceous with ovate acuminated scales, sti- 

 pites 2 inches to a span long subdistant or aggregated, fronds 

 1—3 feet long 1-5 inches wide coriaceous elongato-lanceolate 

 obtuse or suddenly or gradually acuminate much attenuated 

 and decurrent at the base and forming a wing upon the pe- 

 tiole, costules very distinct, venation also distinct in thin 

 specimens, veins forming primary large transverse areoles 

 which are again traversed by veinlets at right angles with the 

 veins and the areoles of these include free veinlets, sori large 

 forming a single series between each pair of costules. — Linn. 

 Sp. PL ya. 1 543. Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 2]. IVilld. Sp. PL v.p.lGl. 



* While correcting the press for this sheet, I receive from Mr. Parish further 

 specimens of this plant, with the remark that it is " the most curious thing I 

 know in the May of a Fern-caudex. It grows at Mergui in large patches. The 

 caudex or rhizome is much branched, and the branches interlacing and overlajjping 

 each other often completely encircle the small branches (about the size of one's 

 arm) of the tree on wiiicb it invariably grows." 



