503 POLYPODIUM. 



123*. p. truncicola, Klotzsch ; fr. csespitose, suljsessile, 2-4 in. 1., l-f in. br., 

 liguJate, narrowed gradually to base, cut down to a narrow wing into close oblong 

 Tjlunt ])atent lobes 1-1^ lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces clothed with short 

 spreading brown hairs ; veins erecto-patent, once forked, not reaching the edge ; 

 one large round sorus at the base of each lobe at the fork of the vein. — Hk. iS}). 4. 

 p. 178. P. cryptosorum, Kse. 



Hab. Guatemala and Columbia. 



124*. P. sccheUarum, Baker ; st. tufted, -1-1 in., clothed with fine short spread- 

 ing brown hairs ; /;'. pendulous, ligulate, 8-6 in. 1., 6-7 lin. br., blunt, narrowed 

 suddenly at base, cut down to a narrow wing into oblong blunt lobes 2-2^ lin. br. ; 

 texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces thinly clothed, especially at the edge, with 

 fine soft brown hairs ; veins 4-6-jugate in pinnse, not reaching the edge ; sori round, 

 6-8 to a lobe, midway between costa and margin. 



Hab. Mah^, Seychelles, Home, 194 ; Mauritius, Lady Barlchj, 



127*. P. pruinatum, Baker ; basal scales linear, minute, ferruginous ; fr. sessile, 

 densely tufted, erect, oblanceolate, 6-10 lines 1., 8 lin. br,, blunt, deltoid at base, cut 

 more than halfway down to the rachis into 5-6-jugate blunt lobes under 1 lin. br. ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces clothed with fine short brown hairs, and the lower 

 slightly pruinose ; veins pinnate in lobes, with 2-3-jugate veinlets not reaching 

 the edge ; sori round, 4 to central lobes, medial. 



Hab. Chen tales, Nicaragua, Ralph Tate, 44. 



127*. P. Thwaitcsii, Bedd. ; rhizome wide-creeping; basal 5e«^c5 lanceolate, 

 dull-brown, 2 lin. 1. ; fr. 2-4 in. 1., 9-15 lin. br., oblanceolate, blunt, cut down 

 to a narrow wing into 6-15-jugate lanceolate blunt rather ascending /)^?^7^(l^ 1 lin. 

 br., more or less repand, the lower reduced gradually to a narrow wing, decur- 

 rent to the base ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked, dull-green ; venules 

 5-8-jugate, simple, distant, erecto-patent, bearing on the end medial round 

 slightly-immersed sori, — F. B. 1. 1. 188. 



Hab. Ceylon, Thwaites, C. P., 3900. — General habit just that ot repandulum, but not 

 fully pinnate, and the caudex creeping. Smells of rhubarb when dried. 



180*. P. dccipiens, Mett. ; rhizome short ; basal scales lanceolate, brownish, 

 h-\ in. ; fr. subsessile, ligulate, 4-15 in. 1., \-\ in. br., cut down to a narrow wing 

 into ligulate-oblong lobes, the lowest reduced ; texture membranous, rather fleshy ; 

 surfaces thinly clothed with brown hairs, the rachis more densely ; veins trans- 

 lucent, 6-14-jugate, all or upper soriferous ; sori immersed, submarginal. — Kuhn, 

 Linn. 2,^. p. 129. 



Hab. Sumatra and Borneo. 



181*. P. Pcarcei, Baker; fr. subsessile, pendulous, lanceolate, 9-15 in 1., 

 18-21 lin. br., cut down to a narrow wing into lanceolate blunt lobes 1 J-2 lin. br. 

 at middle, the lower gradually reduced ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces dull- 

 green, the lower finely white-pruinose ; veins immersed, forked, 8-10-jugate; sori 

 round, placed on anterior branch close to the edge. 



Hab. Andes, Quicbara, 6-7000 ft., Pearce. — Very near P. incequale, F^e. 



188*. P. cornifferum. Baker ; fr. tufted, subsessile, erect, ligulate, 3-4 in. I., 

 2-2| lin. br., pinnate; pinnce 20-30-jugate, diminishing in size from middle 

 of frond both ways, almost triangular, subacute, repand on upper edge ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; 5i<r/«C(?5 glabrous; vein one to each ])inna, forked, falling far 

 short of the tip ; surus large, round, solitary at fork close to the main rachis. 



Hab. Ceylon Thwaites, C. P., 4005. 



