ACROSTICllUM, § CIIRYSODIUM. 2G9 



plant from Java ; those from Samoa (Powell) besides being smaller, liave some 

 of the sterile pinnsc more serrated, and the fertile pinna; much broader and taper- 

 ing at the apex: but in both cases the sori cover tiie whole pinna; between the 

 costa and the margin. My specimens show satisfactorily to me that Lomaf/rarnyne 

 pteroidcs of J. Smith is an abnormal state of this plant with the sori partially 

 confined to the margin, as is the case also in A. prcKstaniissimum (n. 144). 



142. A. (Chrysodiutn) Requieniamwi, Gaud.; caudex ?, 

 " stipites a span to a foot long; sterile fronds ternate rarely 

 pinnate, pinncc 5-7 incites long lanceolate acute, terminal 

 one petiolate, veins reticulated (as in A. Bhimeanum) ; fertile 

 fronds pinnate, pinnae 4-8 inches long subopposite linear 

 acuminate petioled at the base/' — Gaudich. in Voy. deFreyc. 

 p. 304. t. 4. Presl. Neurocallis, Fee, Acrost. p. 90. 



Ilah. Moluccas. Rawak, Gaudiehaud. — This appears to be only known in the 

 Paris Herbarium, and from the description and figure above quoted 1 do not see 

 why it uiay not be a young and imperfect state of A. Blumeanum. 



143. A. (Chrysodium) poJyphyllum, Hook.; caudex scan- 

 dent and radicant thick as a duck's quill, stipites distant a 

 span to a foot long obsoletely squamulose jointed, on the 

 caudex scarcely thicker than a crow's quill; sterile fronds 

 ample probably 2-3 feet long membranaceous pinnate or bi- 

 pinnate, primary pinnre G-8 inches to a foot long, pinnules (all 

 articulate) 1-1 f inch lung rather distant petiolate oblong or 

 oval-oblong strongly serrated acute, rachises winged, veins 

 anastomosing, the largest areoles next the costules ; fertile 

 fronds bipinnate, smaller pinnules much contracted scarcely 

 more than ^ an inch long linear wholly soriferous concealing 

 tlie costa, the margins revolute. — Lomagramme i)olvphylla. 

 Brack. Fit. U. S. Krpl. Exp. p. 83. /. 12./. 3 {portion of the 

 sterile frond only). 



Hah. Pacific Islands, Alexander. Fiji Islands, Brackenridye, Harvey. Anei- 

 teum, Macyillivray. Isle of Vanicolla, C. Moore. 



144. A. (Chrysodium) proistantissimum, Bory ; caudex 

 short apparently erect, stipites 1-H foot or more long thick 

 as a goose or even a swan's quill Cccspitose, fronds subcoriaceo- 

 membranaceous 2-3 feet long pinnated, pinnae 12-2G not 

 jointed on the rachis ; sterile ones 5-10 inches long \-\h-2 

 inches wide oblong more or less suddenly acuminate sessile 

 obliquely cuncate at the base entire, veins uniformly anasto- 

 mosing with shortly oblong hexagonal areoles having a trans- 

 verse direction; fertile pinna; as long as the sterile ones but 

 much contracted linear acuminate sessile, sori coverini]: the 



