280 44. NEPHRODIUM, § LASTKEA. 



114. N. (Last.) i'tihighiosum. Ilk. ; st. 1 ft. 1., densely clothed with large 

 linear scales at the base, and upwards with spreading smaller ones ; //•. 12-18 

 in. 1., 1 ft. br., subdeltoid ; pinnoi lanceolate, the lowest the largest, deltoid, 

 G-8 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnl. close, lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into 

 slightly-toothed, oblong, blunt segm.; texture herbaceous, both sides naked ; 

 rachises fibrillose ; sori close to the midrib. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. l43. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, Braclenvidge. — The scales of the rachis are quite subulate, 

 with alternate coloured and colourless cells. N. Figiense, Hk. 2nd Cent. t. 67, is 

 probably distinct ; the frond is larger and less deltoid, the rachises are less scaly, and the 

 lower segments are pinnatifid, with small blunt lobes, with a sorus filling up more than 

 half of them. It was gathered by Milne in Fiji. 



115. N. (Last.) sqiiamigeriim, Hk. & Arn. ; st. tufted, 1 ft. 1., clothed 

 throughout with lanceolate scales ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 6-9 in. br., ovate-deltoid ; 

 pinnce close, lanceolate, the lowest pair subdeltoid, 6-9 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnl. 

 lanceolA.te, close, more or less deeply pinnatifid, with broad blunt lobes ; texture 

 herbaceous ; rachises and midribs of the pinnules beneath scaly ; sori in rows 

 near the midrib.— iZt. Sp. 4. p. 144. t. 280. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. — Unique in the group in the dense scaly clothing of its 

 rachises. 



IIG. N. (Last.) Bojeri, Baker ; st. 6-9 in. 1., naked, stramineous, the scales 

 lanceolate, concolorous, confined to the base ; fr. If -2 ft. 1., nearly as br., 

 deltoid ; pinnce imbricated, the lowest the largest, lanceolate, sometimes 1 ft. 1., 

 4 in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the rachis below into oblong-ligulate 

 subentire lobes ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veinlets 

 forked ; sori distant from the midrib ; invol. firm, naked. — N. Boryanum, Hk. 

 Sp. 4. p. 126. 



Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon. — Mettenius has shown another quite different plant to 

 be Willdenow's Boryanum, The alliance of this is N. Napoleonis, but the frond is more 

 compound. It is perhaps a mere variety of Filix-mas. 



117. N. (Last.) ocloratum, Baker ; st. 12-18 in. 1., stramineous, glossj', densely 

 clothed at the base with a tuft of lanceolate bright-brown scales ; fr. 9-18 in. 1., 

 deltoid ; lowest jnnnce much the largest, deltoid, 6-9 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; j)innl. 

 lanceolate, often imbricated, with ovate or oblong pinnatifid segm. with blunt 

 rounded lobes ; texture herbaceous ; colour pale-green ; rachis and under side 

 more or less pubescent ; sori copious ; invol. large, pale, villose. — Aspid. Bort/. 

 N. hirsutum, Don. N. eriocarpuin, Dec. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 141. Hypodematium, 

 Kunse. 



Hab. N. India (up to 7-8000 ft.), S. China, Malayan Peninsula, Mauritius, Cape 

 Verdes. — A well-marked species, which specimens from Bojer show is A. odoratum of 

 Willdenow, but Polypodium crenatum, Forsk., is a still older name. 



■»*-»-x-x* JiJii;.ome wide-creeping. Fronds small or middle-sized, deltoid, tri- or 

 quadripinnatifid, Sp. 118-125. 



118. N. (Last.) jmlescens, Desv. ; s?. 6-18 in. 1., slender, deciduously villose ; 

 fr. 6-18 in. 1., deltoid ; lower /Wi?zffi njuch the largest ; pinnl. lanceolate ; lower 

 segm. usually free, oblong-rhomboidal, unequal-sided ; teeth mucronate ; textrire 

 subcoriaceous ; rachises often densely villose and under side more or less 

 pul)escent ; colour pale-green ; sori small, distant from the midrib.— /?/&. Sp. 4. 

 p. 146. Hk. S Gr. Ic. t. 102. Phegopteris villosa, Fee. 



Hab. West Indies. — Veins sometimes anastomoeiiig. Phcgcrptcri^ Porioricensis, F6e, 

 »nd Poli/p, senccum, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 258, are non-involucrate forms. 



119. N. (Last.) Parishii, Ilk. ; st. 6-9 in. 1., slender, naked, ebeneous ; //•. 6-8 



