88 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODES. 



point, venation manifest, costules distinct enclosing a large 

 primary soriferous areole, the veins form an irregular net- 

 work their areoles with free included veinlets, sori very large 

 when mature superficial (not sunk) corapital forming a single 

 series nearer the costa than the margin, — Var. majus ; 12-14 

 inches long, segments 7 6-9 inches long erecto-patent. 



Hab. North-west Himalaya, alt. 10,500 feet, Thomson. Kiimaon, 4000- 

 10,000 feet, Stracheij and' Winterbottom. Simla, Col. Bafes. Sikkim, alt. 

 12,000-13,000 feet, /. D. Hooker.— N&v. 0. Nepal, JVallich ("Polyp, an propin- 

 quum var. ?" Wall.). — A most distinct species, with the segments fringed with soft 

 appendages to the serratures, which seem to fall off in the maturer state of the 

 frond. 



381. P. (Phymatodes) ehenipes, Hook.; caudex stout 

 creeping elongated and knotted with short frondiferous 

 branches everywhere densely imbricated with intensely-black 

 polished ovato-lanceolate subcoriaceous concave scales fusco- 

 pubescent at the margin, stipites stramineous 6 inches to a 

 span long, fronds a span to H foot long broad-ovate or del- 

 toid cordate at the base acuminated (by the long terminal 

 segment) coriaceo-membranaceous subrufescent when dry 

 minutely and compactly pellucido-punctate deeply pinnatifid 

 with acute or obtuse sinuses, segments 4-5 inches long |-1 

 inch wide very patent from a broad base oblong-lanceolate 

 sharply acuminate closely serrated lowest pair generally op- 

 posite and drawn in as it were at the very base so as to form 

 a more or less deep sinus at the summit of the stipes, vena- 

 tion very manifest, costules distinct parallel moderately distant 

 extending to the margin, these are united by transverse veins 

 forming about 3-4 series of areoles including free or con- 

 nected veinlets of which the second only are soriferous, sori 

 very large orbicular in a single series very near the costa. — 

 P. melanopus, Br. in JFall. Cat. n. 293, in ]jari {v. Cat. n. 293 

 at p. 83, not P. melanopus. Hook, and Grev.). 



Hab. Nepal, Wallich, Thomson (a\t. 10-000 feet). North-west Himalaya, alt. 

 8000-9000 feet, Strachey and Winferbotlom, Edyeworth (Kamalori). Sikkim, 

 Hooker fit. and Thomson, alt. 8000 feet. — A most distinct species, as may be 

 learned by the above characters, and as yet, I believe, quite undescribed. 



382. p. (Phymatodes) glaucum, Kze. ; caudex creeping 

 densely crinite with very narrow glossy spreading subulato- 

 setaceous scales, stipites remote a span and more long, fronds 

 glauco-pruinose (especially beneath) punctate with white dots 

 above coriaceous firm 8-14 inches long 6-7 inches wide cu- 

 neato-decurrent at the base deeply pinnatifid, segments sub- 



