POLYPODIUM, § DRYNARIA. 95 



translucent 2 and pr()bal)ly many more feet long from a broad 

 sessile cordate lobato-i)innatifid base (tben suddenly con- 

 tracted) lanceolate deeply almost to the rachis pinnatitid, 

 segments 8-12 inches long f to 1 inch and more wide ob- 

 longo-lanceolate acuminate, lower ones gradually shorter entire 

 incrassated at the margin, venation very manifest, costules 

 ])arallel extending to the margin, these are connected by 

 transverse veins forming 5-6 soriferous areoles and then 

 again generally two or three others which include free vein- 

 lets, sori oval often confluent longitudinally, solitary in the 

 primary areoles forming an excentric series always nearer 

 one costule than the opposite one. — JFall. Cat. n. 288. Met- 

 ten. Polyp, p. 1 2 1 . ^ 40, 4 1 [venation] . Hook. Fit. Exot. t.9\. 

 Phymatodes, iV. Drynaria, J. Sin. — Var. /3, sori of the se- 

 ries confluent. Polyp, contiguum, Wall, in Herb. Hook, [not 

 Cat. n. 285.) 



Ilab. Nepal, Wallich ; Kumaon, Blinkworth ; Assam, Jenkins ; lower hills of 

 Sikkim and Kliasya, 1500 feet, Hooker fl. and Thomson; Mishmee, Griffith ; 

 Mouliueine, Parish. Hongkong, Wilfurd. 



** Frons dimorphous. Sp. 393-398. 



39.3. P. (Drynaria) Fortunei, Kze. in Metten.; caudex 

 creeping short clothed with brown subulate ciliated scales, 

 fronds coriaceo-membranaceous dimorphous ; sterile ones 

 sessile reddish-brown 2-3 inches long cordato-ovate acute, 

 the margin lobato-pinnatifid with obtuse lobes at the base 

 very acute ones at the apex ; fertile ones shortly stipitate 

 green 1-H foot long 4-6 inches wide ovato-oblong acute 

 deeply pinnatifid with patent oblong acute, segments 3-4 

 inches long |-1 inch wide, below the frond is suddeidy con- 

 tracted and long and the stipes is decurrently winged with 

 short lobes nearly to its base, venation manifest, costules ap- 

 proximate extending nearly to the margin united by trans- 

 verse veins forming 4-5 soriferous areoles filled with a net- 

 work of lesser areoles which include free veinlets, sori large 

 copious forming a single series in the middle between the 

 costules. — A'-rc. iw Metten. Polyp, p. 121. 



Hat). China, Fortune, A. 78; Foochow, and covering the walls of the old fort 

 at Lung-Lau, Alexander, and at Amoy, Ilauce, n. 1 109 ; Province of Szchuan, 

 W. China, CjI. Sarel. — A very distinct species, peculiar as far as yet known to 

 China. 



394. P. (Drynaria) splendens, Hook. ; caudex creeping 

 clothed with appressed imbricated subulate scales, stipitcs 



