82 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODES. 



J. Sm.). Phymatodes saccata, /. Sm. Polypodium indicum 

 glabrum, Rumph. Amb. vi. t. 35./. 2. 



Hab. India: Malayan Islands, most abundant, Blume, etc.; Ceylon, Gardner, 

 n. 1144 ; Sylliet and Assam, Wallich, Simons. Pacific Islands, Brackenridge {in 

 Herb.nostr., wifhoui name), Milne ; S.nnoa, Powell, n. 14. — A fine species, very 

 constant to its characters, and well figured in the Fil. Ex. above quoted. 



370. P. (Phymatodes) Billardieri, Br. ; caudex long-creep- 

 ing thick as a writing-pen in the younger portion paleaceous 

 with appressed rather long ovate acuminated dark-brown cel- 

 luloso-reticulated scales pale at the margins, stipites 4-6-8 

 inches long, fronds very polymorphous coriaceous glabrous 

 from 3-18 inches long and from 1 inch (when undivided) to 

 10 inches broad lanceolate and entire acute or obtuse or more 

 or less pinnatitid with 25 more or less acuminate and more 

 or less cuneato-attenuate segments variable in number and 

 size 3-15-25 3-6 inches long from i-H wide short oblong 

 and acute or linear and more or less acuminate, the margin 

 thickened and entire, venation often manifest, costules some- 

 times prominent forming large costal soriferous areoles in- 

 cluding lesser irregular ones which have free divaricating 

 veinlets, sori copious large orbicular sunk in a cavity forming 

 a depressed tubercle or pustule on the upper side compital 

 arranged in a single series between the costa and the margin. 

 —Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl.p. 147. Metten. Polyp, p. 101. Phy- 

 matodes, Pr. Hook. fil. Nov. Zeal. ii. p. 42, Fl. Tasmcm. ii. 

 p. 150, Fl. Antarct. \. p. 111. Drynaria, /. Sm. Chryso- 

 pteris, Lk. Polyp, scandens, Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. ii. jO. 91. 

 /. 240, not Forst. P. diversifolium, Willd., and P. lepidopo- 

 dum, Lk. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land, Labillardiere, Brown, and others, Sieber, n. 12; 

 abundant on ]\lount Wellington, and to the summit, Fraser, J. D. Hooker. Au- 

 stralia, Btjnoe ; Blue Mountains, J//. Cunningham, Fraser, n. 286. Norfolk Island, 

 il/' William, Dr. Vaughan, Thomson, J. Simmons. Pacific Islands, Lord Howe's 

 Island, Raoul, and Isle of Pines, Milne and MacgilUvray. New Zealand, 

 throughout the islands. Lord Auckland's Islands, /. D. Hooker, Brackenridge. 

 — A species very ditferent from P . pustulatum, though not unfrequently con- 

 founded with it ; in general form and habit and polymorphous character more re- 

 sembling P. phymatodes, but different in venation and in the paleaceous scales of 

 the caudex. 



371. P. (Phymatodes) jjhymatodes, Linn.; caudex long- 

 creeping more or less clothed with dark- brown deciduous 

 subulato-setaceous scales or bristles, in age the caudex is co- 

 vered with a chalky-white coat, stipites 2-3 inches to 1 foot 

 and more long, fronds very polymorphous carnoso-coriaceous 



