80 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODES. 



and he is perfectly correct. The caudex (perhaps in itself ahnormal, but the same 

 in all three) and the fertile segments are abnormal, inasmuch as there is a suppres- 

 sion of the substance of the frond between the sori ; the consequence is that these 

 segments form marginal lobes, which in a dry state are turned back on the upper 

 side of the frond (as the fructifications of Nephroma resupinata among the Li- 

 chens). The venation is the same in all three ; and if we can believe that Lecanopt. 

 carnosa is a state of P. sinuosum, Wall., there will be no difficulty in referring 

 Blume's Lecan. pumila (Bl. Fil. Jav. t. 94, B, nowhere, I believe, described) to 

 the L. carnosa. 



367. P- (Pliymatodes) imstidatum, Forst. ; caudex very 

 long scandent branched squarrose with long subulate copious 

 brown glossy scales, stipites rather slender numerous 3-4-5 

 inches long, fronds a span to 1^ foot long, 1-6 inches wide 

 membranaceous flaccid narrow- or broad-lanceolate undivided 

 and very narrow or deeply and nearly to the rachis pinnatifid 

 acuminate, segments wide apart (often an inch or more) 2-3 

 inches long rarely \ an inch wide from a broad decurrent 

 base gradually tapering into an obtusely acuminated point, 

 venation very manifest lax variable, costules or rather pri- 

 mary veins forming one or two series of rather large oblong 

 areoles (margin broad in the sterile specimens) parallel with 

 the costa including free veinlets with very divaricating 

 branches, sori compital on an imperfectly continued mar- 

 ginal veinlet rather distant and consequently forming a mar- 

 ginal series suboval sunk into a rather shallow cavity which 

 forms a tubercle on the upper side. — Forst. Vrodr. p. 81. 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. p. '6\. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 168. Schk. Fil. 

 p.W.t.lO. Metten. Polyp, p. 101. Phymatodes, Pr. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal. ii. p. 42. Drynaria, /. Sm. Polyp, mem- 

 branifolium, Br. Procir. Nov. Holl. p. 147 {fide All. Cunning- 

 ham in Herb, nostr.). P. scandens, Forst. and Willd. {fide 

 Metten.) 



Hab. New Zealand, Forster and others. Northern Island and as far south as 

 Akaroa. Tropical Australia, Banks, Brown ; Brisbane r'wtY, All. Cunningham; 

 Hastings river, " in dark forests, climbing to the height of 100 feet," Dr. Beck- 

 ler. Norfolk Island, Dr. Vaughan Thompson. — The whole plant is described as 

 fragrant, and used in New Zealand to scent oil and food. 



368. P. (Phymatodes) longissimum, Bl. ; caudex creeping 

 fleshy partially paleaceous with rather large ovate appressed 

 brownish scales, stipites \-\\ foot or more long, fronds sub- 

 coriaceous 1^-4 feet and more long 6-10 inches wide nar- 

 row-oblong scarcely acuminated deeply pinnatifid nearly if 

 not quite to the rachis generally leaving only a narrow wing, 

 segments very numerous 22-40 and probably many more 



