NEPHRODIUM. 499 



scales, like those of the stem ; lower pinnce largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, the 

 otliers equal, lanceolate ; pinnl. lanceolate, lowest stalked ; final lobes ligulate- 

 oblong, blunt, 1-2 lin. br., faintly toothed on outer edge, narrowed on upper, 

 decurrent on lower side at l)ase ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces naked, bri{,'ht- 

 green ; veiiis pinnate in final lobes with forked venules ; sori rather large, costular, 

 absent from lower part of pinnules ; inv. glabrous, persistent. — Lastrea crinita, 

 JBoivin. 



Hab. Bourbon, Boivin; Natal, Buchanan & McKen, 



105*. N. (Last.) vile, Baker; rhizome oblique; scales subulate, ferruginous; 

 St, 6-8 in., clothed like rachises with blackish subulate scales ; fr. ovate-acu- 

 minate, 1 ft. 1., tripinnatifid ; pinna} stalked, lowest largest, deltoid, produced 

 below, 3-4 in. 1. ; j;m«^. ovate-oblong, obtuse, lowest stalked, deeply pinnatifid ; 

 segm. close, ligulate, 1 -nerved ; texture membranous ; surfaces setulose, sub- 

 glandulose ; sori nearer midrib than edge ; inv. minute, ciliated. — Aspid. Kze. 

 EttingSy tab. IVJ.fig. 5. tab. l\^. fig. 8. 



Hab. Java, Zollinger, 1602, 



105*. N. (Last.) Maximoioiczii, Baker ; St. 6-8 in., castaneous, glossy vi'ith 

 scattered lanceolate scales throughout ; fr, deltoid, 1 ft. 1., quadripinnatifid ; 

 rachises stramineous ; lower 2>innoe much largest, long-stalked, produced on the 

 lower side, the others lanceolate-cuneate truncate on lower side at base ; lowest 

 pinnl. and segm. deltoid, stalked, cuneate on lower side at base ; final lobes rhom- 

 boid-oblong, unequal-sided, 1^-3 lin. br., dentate ; texture m&mhi-a.x\o\\s ; surfaces 

 green, glabrous ; venules erecto-patent ; sori small, placed just below final 

 sinuses ; inv. glabrous, persistent. — Aspidium sanctum, Maxim. MSiS. 



Hab. Japan, Yokoliama, Maximowicz, 98. 



115*. N. (Last.) nigritanum. Baker ; st. and rachises naked stramineous ; fr. 

 ovate-deltoid, l|-2 ft. 1., tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce lai-gest, oblong-lanceolate, 

 short-stalked, 7-8 in. 1. ; pinnl. sessile, lanceolate, f-| in. br., cut down to a 

 broad wing into close, blunt, slightly-toothed lobes 2-3 lin. br. ; ^e^^z^re moderately 

 firm ; surfaces green, the lower thinly clothed with shining yellow-brown hairs ; 

 veins pinnate in segm. ; sori small, medial ; inv. fugacious, glabrous. — Aspid. 

 Mett. Kuhn, Fit. Afr. p. 138. 



Hab. Princes Island, Barter, 1906. 



124*. N. (Last.) apicale. Baker ; st. and rachises substvamineous, shortly 

 densely glanduloso-pilose ; fr. deltoid, 1 ft. 1., quadripinnatifid ; low^er pinnce 

 much largestj deltoid, distinctly stalked, erecto-patent, subequilateral, h ft. 1. ; 

 low^isi pinnl. and segm, deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, acute, the 

 latter sessile ; final lobes close, lanceolate, the largest entire 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 firm but thin ; surfaces green glabrous beyond the pilose main ribs ; sori at th(- 

 base of the final sinuses on the lower side ; inv. small, glabrous, persistent. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. — Near recedens, from which it differs in texture, 

 shape of segments, and position of sori. 



124*. N. (Last.) lancilobum. Baker ; st. 1 ft. 1., castaneous near base, the rest 

 and rachises grey-stramineous, densely grey-downy ; fr. deltoid, 1-2 ft. each 

 way, 4-pinnatifid ; 1 >wer />2?i«(:e much largest, stalked, produced on lower side ; 

 lowest pinnl. and segm. lanceolate, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, the 

 latter sessile ; final lobes lanceolate, close, the largest entire 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 chartaceous ; surfaces dark-green, finely pubescent all over ; sori small, in two 

 rows near border of final lobes ; inv. minute, fugacious. 



Hab. Queensland, BaUacJnj, Butchhison.— More rigid than velutinum, less densely 

 pubescent, willi narrower more acute final lobes. 



