174 ANTROPHYUM. 



Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon, Bory, Carmichael. Madagascar, " Perville." — 

 My specimen, from Carmichael, quite according with Bory's figure, may very well 

 be a narrow form of A. Boryanum, Klfs. The stipes is 6 inches long, the frond 

 10 by 2 inches wide. 



19. A. ffiganttum, Borj ; "fronds sessile lanceolate ecos- 

 tate menibranaceo-cartilagineous acute at the base gradually 

 but broadly diminishing in width (basi lato-decrescentibus), 

 the margin undulate sometimes sublobate very large, veins 

 narrow long lightly sculpturate thickened on the inferior side 

 of the frond and longer and more rugose, sori subreticulated." 

 Fee. — Bo7y, Voy. Belang. Cr. p. 36. Fee, Antroph. p. 49. t. 5. 



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Ilab. Mauritius and Bourbon, Bory, Sielier, Syn. Fil. n. 64, in Herb, nostr. — 

 Bory describes this species as differing from all others by its great size, attaining 

 a length of 18 inches. Neither he nor Fee give any really definite characters for 

 it. My own specimen from Sieber, n. 64, referred to by Fee, is 20 inches long, 

 4 inches broad in the widest part, and clearly has a stipes, thick and paleaceous 

 with membranaceous, lanceolate, and subulate setae ; but I am far from thinking 

 it may not be a form of ^. Boryanum, itself a very variable species. 



20. A.? (sect. Digramma, Kze.) niphoholoides, Kze. ; " frond 

 2-3 inches long about 2 lines wide coriaceous rigid lineari- 

 lanceolate obtuse attenuated below into a short stipes revo- 

 lute at the margin above laxly reticulated elevato-venose, 

 sorus at each side of the costa linear deeply impressed at 

 length effuse and as well as the costa clothed with canescent 

 stellated hairs, caudex filiform very long creeping rufescent 

 at length albido-paleaceous sparingly radiculose." — Kze. in 

 Bot. Ze.it. vi. 'p. 209. Teenitis, Moore. 



Hab. " Java, Zollinger, n. 2223. — Plant of doubtful genus; differing from Tee- 

 nitis in the immersed sori covered with stellated hairs ; from Vittaria in the sori 

 being close to the costa, as well as in the presence of stellated pubescence ; from 

 JS^iphobolus, with which it agrees in habit, in tb.e linear sori ; lastly, from Antro- 

 phyum in the solitary sorus on each side the costa, and not reticulately arranged 

 on the veins." Moore refers it to Teenitis. 



21. A. ensiforme, Hook.; fronds quite sessile subcarnoso- 

 membranaceous flaccid subtranslucent a span to a foot long 

 6-8 lines wide subfalcate ensiform obtusely or sharply acu- 

 minated very broadly but obscurely costate tapering gradu- 

 ally in the lower half towards the sessile base where it is 3 

 lines wide, venation quite internal, areoles large the costal 

 ones elongated the rest oblong erecto-patent in direction, 

 sori also erecto-patent sunk in very shallow lines simple or 

 forked often short-oblong and interrupted, most copious to- 

 wards the margin, in age prominent and daik-brown. — Hook. 



