97 



Malacca, Griffith. Pegu, M'CM/and. Malay Islands, abundant, Java, Blume, 

 De Vriene and Teijsmann, n. 211, 304, 310. Luzon, Cuming, n. 25, 273, 414, 

 Singapore and Tropical Eastern Australia, Brown, All. Cunninghnm, M' Gillivray 

 (Trinity Bay). Albany Island, F. Muplhr. — From tbe Pacific Island I only pos- 

 sess one specimen, from Angau.of the Fiji group, said to be frequent on the high 

 grounds {Milne, n. 212) ; but Brackenridge does not record it in tbe " Voyage of 

 the U. S. Expl. Exped.," anywhere but in the Philippine Islands. It is best 

 distinguished from the other dimorphous Drynarioe by the two rows or series of 

 sori between each pair of costules and parallel with them. 



39G. P. (Drynaria) prophi(juum, Wall. ; caudex long very- 

 stout creeping densely clothed with lanceolato-subulate deli- 

 cate membranaceous fringed ferruginous scales, fronds coria- 

 ceo-membranaceous dimorphous ; sterile 4-6 inches and 

 more long firm and hard scarioso-membranaceous brown 

 sessile cordato-ovate deeply pinnatifid with narrow oblong 

 acute rarely obtuse segments; fertile ones long-stipitate 1-2 

 feet long oblong-ovate deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid, 

 segments 4 inches to a span or more long linear-oblong acute 

 or acuminate subentire lowest ones distant and subdecurrent, 

 venation manifest slight elevated (so as to give a sculptured 

 character to the surface when dry), costules subveniform 

 flexuose connected by transverse veins forming 4-5 areoles 

 of which the costal one only is soriferous, ultimate small 

 areoles subquadraugular often with free included veinlets, 

 sori forming only a single series close to the costa. — JVall. 

 in Herb. 1823. Cat. n. 293. Metteti. Polyp. p. 120. Phyma- 

 todes, Pr. Drynaria, J. Sm. P. \Yilldeuowii, Bl. Fil.Jav. p. 

 156. t. GQ} Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 35 [not ofBory). 



Hah. India: Nepal. Simla, and apparently common in the whole Himalaya 

 range from N.W. India to Sikkim, Khasya, Assam (alt. 5-7000 feet), Wallich, 

 Eilgeworth, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson, Strachey and IVinterbottom. 

 Java, "Blume, Zollinger" (not "Mauritius," as incorrectly given in 'Garden 

 Ferns '). Tro])ical Africa, Prince's Island, Barter ; Fernando Po, G. Mann. — 

 The single series of sori of this plant on each side of the costules of the segments, 

 and Bluine's figure of P. JJ'itdcnowii, 1. c, had, I fear, led both of us into the 

 error of considering the Java plant identical with P. \Villde7ioirli. Such is not 

 the case ; if either. Blame's Jf'illdenowii is the propinquum of Wallich (well figured 

 under the former name in " Gardun Ferns") ; but Blume's figure is a very indif- 

 ferent one, and I have never seen any true P. propiyiquum but from the above 

 localities. 



397. P. (Drynaria) IVilldenoivii, Bory ; caudex very stout 

 creeping densely clothed with ferruginous glossy subulate 

 ciliated scales, fronds submembranaceo-coriaceous dimor- 

 phous ; sterile ones cordato-ovate subacute 4-6 inches long 

 cut into .short broad rounded lobes at the margin ; fertile 

 ones U-2 feet long nearly sessile ovato-oblong deeply al- 



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