260 44. NEPHRODIUM. S LASTREA. 



naked ; veins in pinnated groups, casually anastoniosino: ; sori large, in rows 

 near the main veins. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 84. Camptodium, Fee. Pachydeiis, J. Sm. 



Hab. West Indies.— Habit of Sagenia, with most but not all the sori terminal on free 

 veinlets. 



3. N. (Last.) Braunianum, Hk. ; st. 1 ft. or more 1., naked, ebeneous ; fr. 

 12-15 in. 1., 9 in. br., subdeltoid, cut down to a rachis with a broad lobed win^- 

 into pinnatifid pinnoe, of which the lowest pair is much the largest, with the 

 pinnl. of the lower side much developed, the lowest 2-8 in. 1,, again deeply 

 pinnatifid, with toothed oblong lobes j in. br. ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; 

 rachis and under side pilose on the veins ; veinlets of the ult. lobes forked ; sori 

 small, copious, terminal on the veins. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 84. 



Hab. Columbia. — This also, like the last, has the general habit of Sagenia. 



*'* Pinnce entire or lobed less than one-third of the way down to the midrib. 

 Sp. 4-18. 



4. N. (Last.) ptisillum, Baker ; st. tufted, 4-12 in. 1., stramineous, pubescent ; 

 fr. 8-12 in. 1., 1 in. br., linear, proliferous from the axils of the upper pinnae ; 

 pinnce numerous, \-\ in. 1., J in. br., oblong, obtuse, the edge slightly crenate, 

 the base truncate ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and under surface pubescent ; 

 veins simple or the lower ones forked ; sori medial ; invol. membranous, densely 

 pilose. — Aspid. Mett. Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 21G. 



Hab. New Granada, Lindig, 92. 



6. N. (Last.) semihastatum, Hk. ; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., slender, villose ; fr. 6-8 

 in. ]., 1\ in. br., oblong-lanceolate ; pinnce close, | in. 1., j in. br., blunt, the 

 edge slightly sinuated, bluntly auricled at the base, the lower ones growing 

 smaller gradually, lowest pair deflexed ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachis 

 and under surface villose ; upper veins forked, lower slightly pinnated ; sori 

 small, scattered. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 87. 



Hab. Peru, Pceppig. 



6. N. (Last.) decipiens, Hk. ; 5^. wiry, substramineous ; /r. 8-10 in. L, 4-5in. 

 l)r., lanceolate-deltoid ; pinnce spreading, 2-3 in. 1., f in. br., the edge very 

 slightly and broadly toothed ; lower pair stalked, about equalling the next ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; rachis slightly fibrillose ; both surfaces naked ; veins 

 pinnated, inconspicuous ; sori in two rows near the midrib. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 80. 

 t. 243. 



Hab. China, Alexander. 



7. N. (Last.) cuspidatum. Baker; st. 1 ft. or more I., naked, densely scaly at 

 thebase ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 8-12 in. br. ; pinnce 4-G in. 1., ^ in. br., the edge shai])]y 

 inciso-serrated to dejfth of ^-1 lin. ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous ; rachis and both sides naked ; veitis in pinnated groups with 3-4 

 veinlets on a side ; invol. fugacious. — Aspid. Alett. Polyp, eloni-atum. Wall. 

 m.S2?.4:.p.2M. Ji ^ . 



Hab. N. India, Ceylon. — Specimens recently received show the involucre clearly. 



8. N. (Last.) podophyllum, Hk. ; st. tufted, 1 ft. 1., naked upwards, scales at 

 the base l)lack and fibrillose ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 8-12 in. br. ; pinnm 4-8 on each 

 Bide, erecto-patent, 4-G in. 1., ^-g in. br., the edge nearly entire or with shallow, 

 broad, blunt lobes ; texture sulicoriaccous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; 

 veins pinnate in the lobes, with 2-4 veinlets on a side, with sometimes a sorus on 

 each distant from the main vein. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 87. 



