92 POLYPODIUM, § PHYMATODES. 



margin, the rest of the frond is occupied by a network of 

 small areoles including free veinlets, sori large in a single 

 series nearer the costa than the margin moderately sunk so 

 as to form slightly elevated corresponding pustules on the 

 back of the hond.—TFalL Cat. n. 303. Metten. Fil. Jlort. 

 Lips. p. 37- t. 24./. 17 {venation). Polyp, p. 104. Hook. Fil. 

 Exot. t. 24. Phymatodes, Pr. Drynaria, J. Sm. 



Hab. India: mountain districts of Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim, Boutan, Khasya, 

 etc., Wallich, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson, Winterbottom, Mrs. Mack, 

 Booth, etc. 



388. p. (Phymatodes) albo-squamatum, Bl. ; caudex long 

 stout creeping densely setose with very subulate brown scales 

 (often 1 inch long) falcate ciliated from a broad base sud- 

 denly attenuated into a very long hair-like point, stipites 

 8-12 inches long glossy, fronds (rarely simple a span long 

 and soriferous) 1-1 1 foot long oblongo-ovate subcoriaceo- 

 membranaceous pinnate, pinnte remote 7-15 rather long-pe- 

 tiolate 6-10 inches long (terminal one the longest and longer- 

 petioled) |-| inch broad elongato-lanceolate very finely and 

 long acuminated entire at the margin more or less dotted on 

 the upper surface with small white cretaceous orbicular scales 

 much more copiously at the margin, venation obscure, cos- 

 tules rarely visible and veniform forming large costal sori- 

 ferous areoles including smaller oblong areoles with free and 

 divaricating veins, other free veinlets at the margin, sori 

 compital scarcely sunk in a regular series between the costa 

 and the slightly cartilaginous margin. — Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 137- 

 t. 57. Metten. Polyp, p. 108. t. \. f. 29 {venation). Hook. 

 Gard. Ferns, x. /. 47- Pleopeltis, Pr. {not Drynaria albido- 

 squamata, J. Sin.) Polypod. varians, Bl. Fl. Jav. p. 138. /. 58. 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 108. t. l.ff. 20-24. 



Hab. Java, Blume, Thos. Lobb. Luzon, Cuming, n. 202, 236, and 418. Bor- 

 neo, Wallace; Sarawak, Thos. Lobb, n. 180 {fronds simple). — Since I pub- 

 lished this species in the " Garden Ferns," 1. c, I have had the opportunity of 

 examining fuller suites of specimens. I am satisfied that the P. varians, Bl., 

 should he united with it. There is no appreciable difference between them. 

 The primary veins sometimes more resemble costules than at other times. The 

 curious caudical scales are the same in both. 



389. P. (Phymatodes) sparsiflorum, Hook. ; caudex large 

 creeping knotted, stipites stout sparingly paleaceous with 

 dark-brown lineari-subulate scales 20 inches long stout but 

 apparently shrunk and angled in drying reddish-brown at the 

 rachis, frond firm subcoriaceo-membranaceous dtirk blackish- 



