32G 48. POLYPODIUM, §§§§§ EUPOLYPODIUM. 



133. P. exigmim, Gi-iseb. ; st. tufted, thread-like, veiy short, naked ; fr. 

 pendulous, 6-24 in. 1., 2 lin. br. ; pinncv \-l lin. L, ^ lin. br., half-ovate, blunt, 

 entire or with a single crenation on the upper side, distant, but the base broadly 

 dilated on both sides ; texture subcoriaceous ; both sides naked ; veins and sori 

 1 to each pinna, the former forked. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 701. 



Hab. Jamaica, Purdie. 



134. P. tricJiomanoides, Swz. ; st. densely tufted, short, clothed with soft 

 spreading deciduous hairs ; f_' 3-6 in. 1., 2-4 lin. br., cut down to the rachis into 

 close linear-oblong blunt pinnts under 1 lin. br. ; rachis wiry, ebeneous ; texture 

 subcoriaceous, the surfaces naked or slightly clothed with soft hairs ; veins and 

 sori 1 in each pinna, the former forked, the latter near the base. — Hk. Sp. 4. 

 p. 178. 



Hab. Cuba to Brazil and Ecuador ; Juan Fernandez, Ascension Island, Malacca, 

 Sikkim. 



135. P. flahelliforme, Lam. ; st. tufted, short, fringed with long soft hairs ; 

 fr. flaccid, 4-12 in. 1., |-^ in. bi'., cut down throughout nearly or quite to the 

 rachis into entire or slightly crenate blunt jnnnce 1-1^ lin. br., which are 

 decurrent at the base ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachis and both sides 

 naked or with a few long soft hairs ; sori large, 1-3 to a pinna, terminal on the 

 short simple veinlets. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 187. 



Hab. Columbia to Peru. — Distinguished in the group by its flaccid habit, slender black 

 filiform rachis, and few sori. 



136. P. subtile, Kunze ; s^. tufted, slender, very short ; fr. flaccid, 3-4 in. 1.^ 

 2-4 lin. br., ligulate, narrowed gradually towards both ends, cut down to the 

 rachis throughout into close entire blunt pinnce ^-| lin. br. ; texture papy- 

 raceo-herbaceous ; rachis black, like both sides thinly clothed with long soft 

 hairs ; sori 3-6 to a pinna, terminating the short veinlets. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 187. 

 t. 275. A. 



Hab. Venezuela to Peru. — Lobes narrower and closer than in the last, and texture 

 almost that of a thin Adiantujn. P. subscabrum, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 183. t. 274. A. is appa- 

 rently this ; but it is not the plant of Klotzsch, 



137. P. delicatulum, M. & G. ; rhizome wide-creeping, slender ; st. tufted, 

 wiry, 1-2 in. 1., densely clothed with long soft hairs ; //•. 4-6 in. 1., I in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close blunt entire pinncB \-\\ lin. br., the lower ones 

 broader and shorter ; texture subcoriaceous ; veinlets simple ; both sides thinly 

 clothed with long soft hairs ; sori copious, subimmersed, 0-8 to a pinna.— ///{,•. 

 Sp. 4. p. 184. 



Hab. Mexico to Ecuador. 



138. V. peruvianum, Desv. ; rhizome creeping, fibrillose ; st. 1-2 in. 1., slender 

 erect, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fr. 3-4 in. 1., ^-g in. br., cut down to 

 tlie_ rachis into oblong-triangular blunt entire pimice | in. br. ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; both sides nearly naked ; veinlets immersed, simple : son rather 

 large, 2-4 to a pinna.— //;{,•. Sp. 4. p. 186. P. anfractuosum, Kze. 



Hab. Venezuela and Peru.— This comes very near the next species. P. monticola, 

 Klotzsch, is probably a reduced form. It is described as csespitose ; but in our specimen 

 the rhizome is slender and greatly elongated, with the fronds 2-3 in, distant from one 

 another. 



139. P. parvulim, Bory ; rhizome stout, short-creeping, clothed with linear 

 scales ; fr. 4-0 in. 1., | in. br., tapering gradually downwards into a very short 



