506 POLYPODIUM. 



high ; fr. oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid ; j;)inn(« ligulate-acuminate, 12-15 in. 1., 

 |-| in. br., cut down to a broad wing into close bluntish subfalcate lobes 

 2 iin. br. ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; midribs stramineous ; veinlets distinct, 

 raised, 16-18-jugate,"like the edge obscurely ciliated ; veins minute, supramedial 

 on all the veins.— Aspidium glanduliferum, Mett. Kiihn, Fil, Nov. Ileh. p. 9. ? 



Hab. Tanna and Aneiteum, C. Moore, 45. 



75*. P. (Goniopt.) muricatum, Powell ; st. 2-4 ft., like rachis grey glabrous; 

 fr. oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid, 2-4 ft 1. ; pinnce sessile, ligulate-acuminate, with 

 a prickle-like gland at the l)ase, G-10 in. 1., | in. br., cut halfway down into 

 falcate bluntish lobes 2 Iin. br. ; lowest jmml. largest ; texture rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veinlets distinct, simple, 14-16-jugate; 

 sori small, close, submarginal, confined to the lobes. — Goniopteris glandulifera, 

 Brack. Fil. Wilkes Exped. p. 29. 



Hab. Samoa, Brackenridge, Powell, 160. — Stipe furnished with fleshy white glands, 

 which become when old hard and subspinose, 



80*. V. {G[OXi.\o\ii.) oligo2)Jilehium, Baker; st.\-1\ii., brownish, slender, with 

 a few broad blunt large scales; /r. deltoid, \\ ft. 1., simply pinnate; pinnce 

 5-6-jugate below pinnatifid apex, lanceolate-acuminate, shallowly bluntly lobed, 

 5-6 in. 1., 2 in. br., all except lowest more or less adnate to rachis ; texture papy- 

 raceous ; surfaces green, naked ; main veins erecto-patent, \ in. apart ; veinlets 

 6-G-jugate ; sori medial. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruce, 4653. 



87*. P. (Dicty.) polycarpum^ Baker/ St. \ ft., rubro-stramineous, slightly 

 pilose upwards ; fr. deltoid, bipinnatifid, |-i^ ft. 1. ; pinnce 6-jugate, lowest 

 largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, stalked, tripartite, central liguiate-acuminate 

 crenate ; texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; main veins distinct to edge ; 

 areolce with free included veinlets ; sori copiously scattered, terminal or com- 

 pital. — Phegopteris polycarpa, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 8G./>. 124. 



Hab. Malacca, Fedcn- Jarjor, 222. 



89*. P. (Dicty.) Tatci, Baker ; st. \ ft. or more, naked castaneous ; fr. 

 deltoid, acuminate, 2-8 ft. 1., 15-18 in. br,^ pinnate in the lower half, with repand 

 ligulate-acuminate 3-5-jugate pinnce 6-12 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., the lowest free, 

 short-stalked, the upper half lanceolate pinnatifid, the point 6-9 in. 1., with only- 

 short blunt lobes ; texture firm membranous ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; 

 main veins fine, erecto-patent, distinct nearly to edge ; areolce copious, minute, 

 with copious simple or branched included veinlets ; sori few, scattered irregu- 

 larly, mostly near or at the edge, moderately large, sometimes confluent. 



Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua, Ralph Tate. 



90*. P. (Dicty.) heterosorum, Baker; s^. short, brown, with spreading linear 

 scales ; fr. oblong-spathulate, 2-3 ft. 1., simply pinnatifid, the lowest foot only 

 a narrow wing to the rachis, above this 8-4 pairs of distant oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate /?e««<B l-j-2 in. br. at middle, confluent in a narrow wing, the lowest 

 simple or bipartite ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; ribs naked, 

 brownish ; main veins distinct to edge, 8-4 lines apart, with distinct arches 

 between them, and copious small areolce with free included veinlets ; sori very 

 abundant, small, ii'regular, often confluent. 



Hab. Malacca, Griffuh. — llahli oi NephTodiumvaslim. 



95*. P. tracliycarpum, Mett. ; fr, c8e?pitose, sessile, oblanceolate-spathulate, 

 entire, 3 in. 1., under \ in. br. ; basal scales reddish, membranous, oblong-Ian- 



