lyO ANTROPHYUM. 



the genus. Fee's specimens are from Griffith, and there is no douht of the species 

 being identical with the coriacenm, Wall, and Don. 



9. A. plantag'meum, Klfs. ; "fronds lanceolato-stipitate 

 acute or acuminate, costa disappearing in the lamina only- 

 evident at the base, sori anastomosing occupying the whole 

 frond narrow and immersed, not quite extending to the mar- 

 gin, the furrow superficial/' Fee. — Klfs. En. Fil.p. 197- Bory, 



Voy. de la Corpiil/e Hot. p. 254. t. 28./. 1, not Bl. " Hemi- 

 onitis, Cnv." Antroph. angustatum, Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. 

 Exp. p. 63 ? (frond a foot long linear-lanceolate very mem- 

 branaceous). 



Hah. " Philippine and Marianne Islands, Lesson and Gaudichaud." Society Is- 

 lands, Bidwill (stipites slender, 6-8 inches long, fronds 8 inches long, 1-1 5 inch 

 wide, elliptical-lanceolate). Tahiti, Niitfall and Brackenridge (" A. angustatum," 

 Brack.). — Other smaller forms, hut with broader fronds and tapering much and 

 decurrently on the stipes, I am doubtful whether to refer to A. Lessoni or A. re- 

 ticulatum or to this species. They are from Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1173 (named 

 plantagineum hy Moore in my Herb.), and w. 1308. India: Mamhree, Wallich 

 (this also is called plantagineum by Moore; and Borneo, Thos. Lobb, Barber; 

 Moulmcine, Thos. Lobb). Moore indeed unites the ^. Lessoni, A. plantagineum, 

 and the still more different-looking A. angustatum. If this be correct, and I am 

 far from thinking it is not, there are I fear many others of the genus which will 

 not hear the test of specific distinction. 



10. A., parvulum, Bl. ; "fronds shortly stipitate lanceolate 

 acuminate at both extremities submembranaceous ecostate, 

 sori nearly straight exposed (nudi)." Bl. Fil.Juv. p. 78. /. 34. 



/'. 3 excl. /3. elongatum {not A. pumilum, Klfs.). Fee, An- 

 troph. p. 45, in part {excl. syn. Hemionitis immersa, Bory, 

 and the locality of Bourbon). 



Hab. Java, Blume, in Herb, nostr. Penang, Thomas Lobb. Tahiti, Barclay. 

 Khasya, alt. 4000 feet, Hooker fil. and Thomson. — My specimens, from the author, 

 about 6 inches long, exactly accord with Blume's figure ; those from Khasya are 

 less than half the size. Moore expresses an opinion that the specimens are a very 

 young state of A. reticulatum, and this I think very possible ; but it has nothing 

 TO do with the A. pumilum of Kaulfuss. See our next species.— Solitary speci- 

 mens I further possess, of what I take to htA.parviduyn, from Penang and Tahiti, 

 one marked by Mr. Moore as ^' A. Grevillei, Balfour?" which is Polgtanium 

 Grevillei, jMoore, Ind. Fil. ; but I know not if a description or character is any- 

 where published. 



{Bourbon and Mauritius. — Sp. 11.) 



11. A. pumilum., Klfs. ; fronds 2-3| inches long h an inch 

 or a little more wide lanceolate suboblique coriaceous opaque 

 longitudinally wrinkled on the upper surface wdien dry ob- 

 tuse or subacute attenuated into a short stipes at the base 

 less than 1 inch long, costa none, sori linear reticulately 

 branched deeply immersed. — Klfs. En. Fil. p. 197- Hook. 



