168 ANTROPHYUM. 



from Java {De Vriese) in every respect the same, but wanting the dark-coloured 

 costa. It is, I fear, a dubious species. 



3. A., semicostatmn, Bl. ; fronds soft coriaceous 8-1 8 inches 

 long including the very short stipes less than an inch long, 

 2-4 inches wide spathulate acuminate long-attenuated and 

 gradually and decurrently tapering below, veins very conspi- 

 cuous, areoles exceedingly elongated often 2-3 inches long, 

 costa broad compressed occupying only the lower part of the 

 frond, sori sunk yet rising above the cuticle very much elon- 

 gated and parallel rarely branched or anastomosing chiefly 

 following the course of the longitudinal veins. — Bl. Fil. Jew. 

 p. 77- t. 33. Fee, Antroph. p. 42. Hemionitis, Pr. A. 

 D'tlrvillagi, Bory. A. reticulatum, Wall. Cat. n. 40, in Herb. 

 Hook. A. alatum. Brack. Fil. U. S. ExpL Exped. p. 64. 



Hab. Malay islands, Blume, Wallich (Penang), Wallace and Thos. Lohb 

 (Borneo), Cuming, n. 19 (Luzon). Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1307. Khasya, Griffith. 

 Pacific islands, abundant, Society Islands and Solomon's group, Fiji, Aueiteum (C. 

 Moore), and Navigators' Islands (Brackenridge). 



4. A. Lessoni, Bory; *' stipes very short subtetragonous 

 thickened at the base, fronds ovoideo-oblong attenuated at 

 each extremity ecostate entire or here and there sinuate co- 

 riaceous, sori linear or catengeform rarely reticulated narrow 

 immersed." Fee. — Bory, in Voy. de la Coquille, p. 254. t. 28. 

 /. 2. Fee, Antroph. p. 45. A. plantagineum,i?/. Fil. Juv. p. 



74. t. 30 [excl. the syns.) A. plantagineum, 8, Moore, Ind. 



Hab. Islands of Waigiou, Amboyna and ^or&hordi, Lesson and D'Urville. Java, 

 Blume. Society Islands, Bidwill, Barclay. Fiji islands, Milne, Seemann. n. 77. 

 Coral Islands, Beechey (A. plantagineum, var., Hook, and Am.). — The true plant 

 of Bory, the A. plantagineum, of Bl. (not Klfs.), has ovate or oval fronds, more 

 or less acute or acuminate, 3-4 inches long, but some of our specimens take a 

 much more elongated form. 



5. A. elongatum. Fee; "fronds elongato-lanceolate much- 

 acuminated ecostate stipitate submembranaceous pellucid 

 deep-green above, stipites plane, veins very slender, areoles 

 long narrow, sori linear simple flexuose some subcontinuous 

 others short and interrupted brown immersed ?" Fee, Antroph. 

 p. 43. Moore. A. parvulum, /S, elongatum, Bl. Fil. Jav. 

 p. 78. 



Hab. Java, Blume. — A very dubious species even according to Fee's remarks, 

 of which Blume's figure {A. parvulum, a) represents fronds six inches long inclu- 

 ding the short stipes : but the same author says his var. ^ attains a length of \\ 

 foot, and then it must much resemble A. Cumingii. — ^I possess an Antrophyum quite 

 agreeing with Blume's figure of var. a, except that our plant is a foot long (from 

 Aneiteum, Milne), but it has a more or less conspicuous midrib. 



