64 POLY PODIUM, 



Allied to P. saxatile, especially in the nature of the paleaceous scales and in the 

 thickness and breadth of the fronds. From the costa above, on one specimen, is 

 a proliferous frond, probably the effect of some injury. Some states and forms 

 oi Grammitis (SelligueaJ caudiformis, Bl., are scarcely distinguishable from this. 



337. P. (Phymatodes) saxatile, 'M.G.tten.^ caudex creeping 

 paleaceous with subulate ferruginous scales, stipites distant 

 2-4-5 inches long, fronds coriaceous ovato-lanceolate or lan- 

 ceolate thickened at the margin of 2 kinds; sterile ones 2-4 

 inches long obtuse ; fertile ones 6-8 inches varying much in 

 form from ovato-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate more or less 

 acuminate and more or less cuneate or attenuate at the base, 

 costules very distinct rather distant prominent beneath, veins 

 very indistinct sunk primary ones transverse flexuose forming 

 large areoles occupied with smaller areoles which include free 

 veinlets, sori rather small inserted on the transverse veins in 

 two series between each pair of costules. — Metten. Polyp, p. 

 116. P. rupestre, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 142. t. 55./. 2, ajid t. 60. 



f. 1-3 {iiot P. rupestre, Br). Drynaria, ./. <Sm. Pleuridium, 

 Fee. 



Hah. Java, Blume, Spanoghe. Luzon, Cuming. — ^A variable species, as may 

 be seen by Blume's figures, and possibly not distinct from P. triquelrum. 



338. P. (Phymatodes) ovatum, Wall. ; caudex creeping 

 apparently underground slightly paleaceous, stipites distant 

 3-8 inches long sparsely paleaceous below, fronds firm-mem- 

 branaceous glaljrous 5-10-11 inches long 2-3 inches wide 

 ovate or ovato-lanceolate acuminate entire the broad base 

 rather suddenly attenuated so as to form a decurrent wing 

 on the upper part of the stipes, costules very evident slightly 

 prominent straight or flexuose connected by transverse veins 

 on which the sori are inserted, the areoles are filled with re- 

 ticulated veins with or without free included veinlets, the sori 

 are very large and prominent when mature chiefly confined 

 to the centre of the frond distant from the margin scarcely 

 arranged in series, occasionally two are confluent. — Wall, in 

 Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 41. 



Hab. East Indies, Wallich, in Hook. Herb, (without special locality). Khasya 

 and Boutan, Griffith. Sikkim-Himalaya, ifoo^-er _/?/. and Thomson. — Since the 

 publication of Dr. Greville's fine figure in the Ic. Filicum, I possess further speci- 

 mens of this species, all according with the characters there exhibited. One of 

 my specimens, which I take to be this species, said to be from " Mai valley, Nepal," 

 has more than half the sori so confluent as to appear quite grammitioid. 



339. P. (Phymatodes) zoster (£f or me. Wall. ; caudex short 

 fragile black creeping apparently underground or rather un- 



