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from a few inches to 2-3 feet long often siin])le (undivided) 

 and lanceolate and then rarely exceeding 10 inches long, or 

 trifid or tripartite or more or less deeply pinnatifid and then 

 api^earing to attain the largest size and a diameter of 10-12 

 inclics dcltoideo-ovate, the segments as many as 17-23 3-8 

 inches long 1-1 2 wide lanceolate ohlong or linear acute or 

 oljtuse, the margin thickened entire, venation internal ge- 

 nerally obscure sometimes when the frond is translucent 

 the veins are ap])arent but veniform soon diverging and ana- 

 stomosing and forming a series of large costular areoles with 

 other lesser but unequally-sized ones, secondary veins nume- 

 rous united into smaller areoles but varying in size and form 

 and including numerous free divaricating veinlets more or 

 less impressed and forming pustules at the back, sori often 

 very large oval or globose compital either forming a single 

 or double series between the costa and the margin or irregu- 

 larly scattered over the frond. — Linn. 3Iant. p. 360. Siv. Sijn. 

 Fil. p. 30. IVilld. Sp. PI. V. p. 167. Schk. Fil. p. 10. ^ 8 d, 

 and t. 17. Jacq. Ic. PL Rar. p. 637. Metten. Fil. Hart. Lips, 

 p. 36. t. 25. jf. 10-16 {venation). Polyp, p. 103. Drynaria, 

 Fee. Chrysopteris pcltideum, longipes, and terminalis, Lk. 

 {fide Metten.) Polyp, ensiforme, Kze. in Schk. Fil. t. 54./. a 

 {not the other figures). P. alternifolium, Lk. P. grossum, 

 Langsd. and Fisch.p. 9. t. 8. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 168. Dry- 

 naria vulgaris, J. Sm. Phymatodes, Pr. 



Ilab. Tropical countries of the Old World, the continent of India alone ex- 

 cepted, ahiiost universal, and equally variable in all localities. Malay Islands : 

 Java, Singapore, Borneo, Aiuboyna, etc. New Guinea, with some of the sori 

 nearly ^ an inch long! (flinds). Malacca, Griffith ("fragrance of Anthoxau- 

 f/iniH when drying"), Mauritius, Telfair, Wallich, Cat. n. 331. Ceylon, Mrs. 

 (Icneral Walker, Gardner, n. 1143, 1297. China: Hongkong, Dr. Dill ; For- 

 mosa, C. Wil/ord (specimen quite simple, 14 inches long. 1-1 A inch wide, exactly 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, and much attenuated at the base) ; Loo-cboo Is- 

 lands, C. Wriyht. Pacific Islands, most abundant apparently in all, within or 

 verging upon, the tropics : Fiji ; Samoa {n. 48, Poivell). etc. Africa : Natal to tbc 

 Zambesi on the east coast, Madagascar, Mozambique, etc., Drege, Sutherland, 

 Livinfjatone, Kirk, Miller, etc. ; Western tropical Africa, equally plentiful, Vof/el, 

 Barter, Mann, etc. — The entire absence of this, otherwise widely dispersed plant 

 on the great Indian continent is very remarkable. 



372. P. (Phymatodes) maximum. Hook. ; caudex "a stout 

 creeping rootstock," stipes stout short about 2 inches lung 

 below the decurrent base of the frond h an inch thick semi- 

 terete, fronds 3-5 feet long coriaceo-submembranaceous 3 

 inches wide (independent of the long narrow segments) 

 lanceolate obtusely acuminate long attenuated and decurrent 



