94 POLYPODIUM, § DRYNARIA. 



Polyp. 2^. 117 {according to his reference to J. Sm.). Pr. Reliq. 

 Hank. \.p. 22. t. 3./. 22. Drynaria, J. Sm. | 



Hab. Java, Zollinger, De Vriese, and Teijsmann, n. 84, Thos. Lohh. Luzon ?, I 



Haenke. Isle Samar, Cuming, n. 330. Solomon's Group, Pacific Islands, iV?7«e 7 

 — \ ied^v the. P. morbillomim.,VT.\.c., must be considered a dubious plant. It 

 was described from very imperfect specimens, and, as far as the figures are con- 

 cerned, with two sori in each ])rimary areole and two series of sort between the 

 costules and parallel with them, I do not see why it shouUi not represent the 

 common P. quercifolium. Certainly, if Mettenius's reference to J. Smith is to 

 be depended upon for true P. morbillosum, then our plant and morbillosurn are iden- 

 tical. I am doubtful about my Solomon's Islands plant, of which I have no en- 

 tire fronds, but of which the very small sori are not in regular series but irregu- 

 larly scattered. 



.391. P. (Drynaria) Meyenianum,^c\\ott; caudex very stout 

 creeping densely clothed with ferruginous crisped soft silky 

 glossy subulato-setaceous ciliated scales, fronds ample sessile 

 coriaceous 2^-3 feet long from a very cordate broadly-lobed 

 base 4-12 inches wide subpellucid strongly and coarsely re- 

 ticulated then a little contracted oblong deeply pinnatifid 

 with sterile segments 3-6 inches long i-l^ inch wide oblong 

 obtuse or acute terminating in a singularly contracted pinna- 

 tifid fertile apex often a foot long with narrow linear seg- 

 ments monibformi-lobate, the lobes monosorous, sori im- 

 mersed, of the intermediate and sterile segments the venation 

 is very manifest and prominent beneath these (as in other 

 Drynaria) are united by transverse veins and the areoles 

 are occupied by a close network forming smaller areoles and 

 including free veinlets, the venation is much altered in the 

 contracted terminal segments. — Aglaomorpha, Schott, Gen. 

 Fil. t. 19. Hook. Gen.Fil. ^ 91. Metten. Kze. in Schk. Fil. 

 Suppl.i. p. 191. t. 81. Moore. Drynaria Proustiana, Gfli<(/ic^. 

 Voy. Bonite, Bot. t. 3. Poly pod. flabelliferum, Goldm. Psyg- 

 mium elegans, Pr. 



Hab. Luzon, on Mount Baldu, Cuming, n. 49, Gaudichaud. — Singular as is 

 the first aspect of this noble Fern, its great fronds terminated as it were by long 

 narrow beaded spikes of fructification, I can only look upon it as a Drynaria and 

 closely allied to 1). coronans,-vih\i its terminal pinnae alone fertile, the sori costal, 

 and the substance of the rest of the segments subpressed, as in Lecanopteris, LSI., 

 (see our observations at p. 79 of this volume) ; in proof of this view an otherwise ste- 

 rile segment is seen on one of my specimens, having a contracted base and then 

 and there only bearing three costal sori. 



392. P. (Drynaria) coronans. Wall. ; caudex thick creep- 

 ing branched and interwoven villoso-paleaceous with aureo- 

 nitent scales, fronds large uniform when growing arranged in 

 a circle firm coriaceo-membranaceous but rather thin and 



