NEPIIRODIUM. 503 



coriaceous ; surfaces glahroiis, oi' rihs minutely ciliated ; veins raised, distinct, 

 14-10-jiigate ; soi-i minute, medial ; inv. glabrous, persistent. — Aspidium, Bojer ; 

 N. albolineatuni, IJoivi?i, 



Hab. Bourbon. 



173*. N. ptinctatwn, Parish; rhizome creeping:; st. 1-2 ft., stramineous, gla- 

 brous ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; rachis square, glabrous ; 

 pinna sessile, ligulate-acuminate, central 12-15 in. 1., |-^r in. br., cut down to a 

 broad wing into lanceolate-falcate subacute lobes l|-2 lin. br.; texture ch&xia,- 

 ceous ; surfaces naked except ribs above ; veins 9-10-jugate, very distinct; sori 

 marginal, immersed. — Beddome, F. B. I. t. 131. 



Hab. Moulniein, Rev. C. S. Parish. 



177*. N. mascaranense, Baker ; st. G-8 in., grey, naked ; /;•. oLlong-deUoid» 

 8-9 in. 1., simply pinnate ; pi7mce subsessile, 6-7-jugate, patent, ligulate-caudate, 

 lowest not reduced, 2|-3 in. 1., -f-f in. br., crenate, with shallow Idunt lobes 

 2 lin. br., lowest quarter rather narrowed ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces 

 naked, dull-green ; rachis grey-stramineous, faintly pubescent ; veins in pinnate 

 6-6-jugate groups, upper only free ; sori subcostular ; inv. glabrous, fugacious. — 

 Polypodium, edit. I.p. 455. 



Hab. Madagascar, Mrs. Higginson ; communicated by Lady Barkly. 



183. N. moulmaynense, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 220 (Goniopteris lineata, Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 3), is probably a form of Polypodium (Goniopteris) urophyllum, showing a 

 minute involucre in the young state, and N. costatum, F. B. I. t. 220, a similar 

 form of our Polypodium lineatum. 



187*. N. suhcuneatum, Baker ; rhizome short- creeping ; st. 4-8 in., grey, slightly 

 downy upwards ; fr. lanceolate-deltoid, 6-8 in. 1., bipinnatifid ; lower pinnoe 

 short-stalked, cut ^-^ down into close blunt lobes 2 lin. br., central lanceolate, \\- 

 2 in. 1., \-\ in. br., lowest not reduced, but much narrowed al)Ove base ; rachis 

 grey-downy ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces dull-green, rather pilose on the ribs ; 

 veins 6-7-jugate, only lowest pair joined ; sori medial, minute ; inv. glabrous, 

 fugacious. — Fl. Bras.fasc. 49. p. 48". 



Hab. Cayenne, Leprieur, — General habit like Pohjpodiuni tetragonum. 



194*. N. guadalupense. Fee; st. tufted, grey-stramineous, naked, 1 ft.; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; lower pinnce short-stalked, gradually 

 reduced at base, 8-9 in. 1., |-| in. br., cut more than halfway down into close 

 blunt lobes 2-2| lin. br. ; upper pinnce sessile, equal at base ; texture thin, firm ; 

 surfaces dull-green, slightly downy on ribs; veins 12-15-jugate ; sori minute, 

 medial.— i^27. A7it. p. 89. t. 24,/^. 3. 



Hab. Guadaloupe, L'llerminier. — Texture and cutting of dbruptum, but veins much 

 closer. 



199*. N. (Pleoc.) giganteum. Baker ; st. tufted, 1-1^ ft., grey, pubescent ; basal 

 scales linear, dark-brown ; fr. deltoid, 2-3 ft. 1., tripinnate or 4-pinnatifid, mode- 

 rately firm, finely pubescent or subglabrous ; low qy jnnnce much largest, deltoid, 

 unequal-sided, stalked, with lower tertiary segm. lanceolate, pinnatifid ; upper 

 pinnce lanceolate, with broad blunt lobes, with the veins forming costular arches 

 at their base ; sori in single rows near the main veins, some compital, some at 

 the end of free veinlets. — N. giganteum, edit. 1. ex parte. Bedd. F. S. 1. t. 80. 



Hab. Ceylon, Malay Isles, Philippines. — Texture and habit of cicutarium, but veining 

 very different. 



