POLYPODIUM, § PIIYMATODES. G) 



ITab. Eastern Himalaya, Khasya, Mislimee and Boiifan, Griffith, Hooker fit. 

 and Thomson. — Habit of /'. rhynchophyllnm and P. accedens, but very different 

 in tlie form of the frond and in the nature of the venation. 



344. P. (Phymatodcs) irioides, Lam.; "caudex creeping 

 clothed with brown-black ovate obtuse scales, fronds 1-.5 

 feet long coriaceo-carnose very glabrous sessile or shortly 

 stipitate elongato-lanceolate towards the base gradually atte- 

 nuated and decurrent as far as the very base of the stipes 

 entire the margin revolute acuminate or obtuse at the apex 

 undivided or irregularly dichotonious fertile in the upper 

 portion, costa manifest, venation that of Drynar'ia immersed 

 (visible in the dried state), areoles with numerous incurved 

 appendices, free veinlets incrassated at the apex, costal 

 areoles sterile the rest 4-6-seriate fertile bearing numerous 

 sori (14-20) irregularly scattered, sori semi-immersed minute 

 inserted on a manifest receptacle on the back of the veinlets 

 or on the angle of the lesser areoles." Metten. — Willd. Sp. PL 

 \.p. 160. Bl. Fit. Jav. p. 16. /. 7. Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. 

 t. 125. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 38. t. 20. /. 10 (/. 7 in 

 Metten. Polypod.). Phymatodes, ?r. Drynaria, /. Sm. P. 

 sessile, KaiiJf. Microsorium, Lk., Fee. M. irregulare, Lk. Fee. 

 Gen. t. 20. B.f. 3. Phymatodes polycarpa, Pr. Tent. p. 19S. 

 /. 8./. 19. Aspidium microcarpum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. M2. 

 Polyp, glabrum, Roxb. in JFall. Cat. n. 281. P. polycepha- 

 lum. Wall. Cat. n. 273. 



Hab. India: Malay Islands and Archipelago, Malacca, tropical Bengal, Assam, 

 Silhet, Boutan, Madras Peninsula, Nilghiri, etc. China: Macao, Chnsan. Australia: 

 Moreton Bay, ^IW. Cunningham, Mueller. South Vac'i^c, Bidwill, Sir F. Grey. Fiji 

 Islands, Seemann (Drynaria musajfolia, /. Sm. in Flor. Vict.), Harvey. New CaW- 

 donia, C.Moore. FHca\ru'sH\a.ml, Mathejvs. Isleof Pines, jl/t7«e. Africa: Mauri- 

 tius and Bourbon, Madagascar, £yaZ^/ Zam\>es\, Dr. Kirk ; YernandoPo, Barter ; 

 and Liberia, Vogel ; west coast, south of the tropics, Curror. South Africa, Natal , 

 Sanderson. — See observations under the next species, P. munarfolium. 



345. P. (Phymatodes) nnisafolium, Bl. ; "caudex creeping 

 clothed with ovate acuminate scales, fronds 1-3 feet long 

 mcmbranaceo-coriaceous deep-green smooth above and at 

 the apex of the free veinlets bearing a calcareous scale ses- 

 sile or shortly stipitate oblong-spathulate or elongato-lanceo- 

 late shortly acuminate or obtuse soriferous in the upper ])or- 

 tion, areoles of Drynaria, the veins manifestly elevated Cccru- 

 lescent (manifestic exculptic ceerulescentes), costal areoles slc- 

 rilc the rest 4-7-seriate fertile bearing 6-15 sori minute irre- 

 gularly scattered of 8-12 capsules which are superficial placed 

 on the back of the veinlets which form secondary areoles, or 



