POLYPOUIUM, § PMYMATODES. 69 



ol)long or broad oblongo-lanceolatc rather suddenly and sub- 

 caudately aeuminate gradually attenuated below, the inarghi 

 thickened entire, costules none, venation sufficiently evident, 

 primary veins forming large transverse soriferous areoles 

 next the costa, these and the rest of the frond are occupied 

 up with smaller elongated simple or compound areoles witli 

 or without free veinlets, sori very large subrotund or trans- 

 versely oblong arranged in a single series nearer the costa 

 than to the margin. — Kze. in Sc/ik. Fil. SappL j). 88. t. 42. 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 98. Phymatodes, /. Sm. Drynaria, Fee. 



Hah. British Guiana, Sc/iombiirffk, n. 902. Brazil: Para, on trees, «. 582, 

 Ivio Negro, n. 1511, and S. Gabriel, «. 2321), Spruce. — A fine and very peculiar 

 species, with a caudex resembling a hare's foot and often thicker, with no trace of 

 costules, and but a single series of very large sori. 



348. P. (Phymsitodes) fusco-punctatum, Hook. ; caudex long 

 creeping or scandent branched slender partially paleaceous 

 with ovate acuminate scales, stipites apart but approximate 

 scarcely more than h an inch long compressed, fronds firm- 

 membranaceous subchartaceous 6-9 inches long 1-1 :[ inch 

 broad lanceolate finely acuminated gradually attenuated at 

 the base glabrous entire copiously sprinkled on both sides 

 with dark-brown (not pellucid) dots, venation very conspicu- 

 ous elevated on both sides, no costules, veins very unift)rmly 

 reticulated forming a series of costular oblong areoles the 

 rest are hexangular ones as long as broad with very rarely a 

 free included simple veinlet, sori large generally compital ar- 

 ranged in a single uniform series between the costa and the 

 margin.— Tab. CCLXXXV. A. 



I lab. Ecuador, ascent of Chiniborazo, alt. 3000 feet. Spruce. — The figure of 

 the venation here given will explain that better than any description can do. 



349. P. (Phymatodes) normale, Don ; caudex very long 

 creeping or scandent often as thick as a writing-jien the 

 young portions clothed with black subulato-setaceous squar- 

 rose scales in age perfectly smooth, stipites very numerous 

 on the caudex more or less approximate 1-2 inches long 

 and as well as the costa reddish stramineous, fronds firm- 

 membranaceous glabrous varying extremely in size 1-2 feet or 

 more long ij of an inch to 2 inches wide lanceolate or elon- 

 gato-lanceolate or loriform generally long and finely acumi- 

 nate gradually attenuated and dccurrent at the l)ase entire 

 subfalcate or fiexuose, veiuition slightly prominent especially 

 beneath, costules none, veins forming rather large but very 



