ANTROI'lIYl'M. 167 



7. Antropiiyum, Ktfs. 



(IIooK. Gen. Fil. tar. CIX. A. Ilcmioiiitis, And. 

 Acrostichuni, Auct. Pt)lytccniuin, Dcsv. Hook. Gex. Fil. 

 TAB. CVII. Scoliosorus, J/oo?Y'.) 



Sori very long, linear, continuous, reticulated (but often 

 imperfectly), occupying for the most part the lateral veins 

 which form the areoles, hence their general course is perpen- 

 dicular, superficial, or very frequently sunk in a channel or 

 groove. Veins copiously and uniformly anastomosing into 

 elongated hexagonal areoles with no free included veins. — 

 Caudex short, creeping^ often densely toinentose. Fronds 

 simple, entire, flaccid, cost die or ecostate. 



Chiefly distinguished from Ilemionith by habit and by the latter having the veins 

 everywhere soriferous. Anetium of SpHtgerber, which most authors combine 

 with AerosHchum, Fee considers an anomalous Anfrophyum. To me it seems 

 rather an anomalous Ilemionitis, in which genus Presl places it. Fee has elabo- 

 rated, with considerable care, the present genus Antrnphynm, and published 

 many good figures, and as I have not had the advantage of seeing many authentic 

 specimens of himself and others, 1 have felt it right in the main to follow his 

 arrangement and to preserve his species. 



A. Sori sunk in a manifent groove. — Sp. 1-11. 



1. A. callcefolium, Bl. ; "fronds coriaceous glabrous entire 

 wrinkled when dry, terminating in a long acuminated point, the 

 margin entire yellowish diaphanous, the base ending in a short 

 plane flat stipes, costa none or oidy conspicuous towards the 

 stipes, areoles hexagonal moderately large, sori linear sub- 

 continuous distinct immersed." Fee. — Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 83. t. 35. 

 Fee, Antroph. p. 42. A. reticulatum, 7, Moore. 



Mab. Java, Blume, Zollinger, 6 inches to 2 feet long. — Unknown to me. 

 Blunie likens it to A. reticulatum, ditfering in the thickness and breadth of the 

 frond, in the narrowed pellucid margin, the straight sori not rcticulately connected. 

 Moore refers it to that species, and some of my specimens of reticulatum quite 

 accord with it. 



2. A. Cuminr/ii,' Fee ; "stipes complanate twisted black 

 with a black line passing through it, fronds falcato-lanceo- 

 late sword-shaped ecostate wrinkled a1)ove, areoles very long 

 narrow, sori straight subreticulated much sunk, the margins 

 scariose resembling a spurious indusium." F'ee, Antroph. t.4. 

 f. 7' — Moore, Lid. Fil. excl. syn. Brack. A. latifolium, 



"Reiniv." J. Sm. {no character or description). 



Ilab. Luzon, Cutning, n. 410.— Our original specimens from Cuming measure 

 from 1-1^ foot long, 1 inch vvidc, and they have a distinct, broad, black, but not 

 elevated costa, extending upwards from the very short stipes. I have specimens 



