521 TODEA. 



springing from the outer border; fertile fr. filifornij G-8 in. 1., long-stalked. — 

 Journ. Bot. 1872, ;>. 14G. 



Hab, Ceylon, G. Wall. 



117*. A. (Chrys.) rimilare, Baker; rhizome creeping; s^^nYe /r. lanceolate, 

 8-12 in. 1., proliferous at top, 4-5 in. br., pinnatifid at middle, with blunt lobes, 

 pinnate at base, Avith lanceolate suba,cute subsessile/^wmte 2-2h in. 1., ^-| in. br. ; 

 its St. 5-6 in. 1., minutely scaly throughout ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 glabrous ; areolce copious, fine, exappendiculate ; fertile fr. smaller, longer- 

 stalked.— ^rac/-. FiL Wilkes Exp. p. 85. t. II. fg. 2. 



Hab. Viti, Brackenrk^ge, 



118"'. A. (Chrys.) varians, Mett. ; rMzomc \ in. thick, woody, wide-climbing ; 

 scales small, brown, membranous, lanceolate ; sterile fr. 1-1| ft. 1. and br., cut 

 down nearly to rachis into 1-G-jugate ligulate-oblong ^:>m?Z(-«?, central 6-9 in. ]., 

 1^-2 in. br., terminal similar, lower reduced, its st. naked, 2-.3 in. 1. ; texture 

 thin but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; areolce multiserial, appendiculate ; barren fr. 

 smaller, with distant lomarioid pinnte and a narrow wing to rachis. — Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. ser. 4. vol. 15. p. 50. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 1525. 



123*. A. (Chrys.) serratum, Baker; rlnzome woody, -y- in. thick, nearly naked, 

 wide-creeping ; barren fr. rhomboid-deltoid, simply pinnate, 5-6 in. 1., 4-5 in. br. ; 

 pinncn 2-4-jugate, lanceolate, ascending, 3-4 in. 1., f in. br., acuminate, dis- 

 tinctly inciso-crenate, subsessile, narrowly cuneate at the base, its st. strami- 

 neous, naked, 5-6 in. 1. ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; 

 veins distinct, dichotomously forked, forming large exappendiculate costal arches ; 

 fertile fr. with smaller blunt entire pinnfe and a longer stem. — Chrysodium 

 Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 63. 



Hab. Tarapoto, East Peru, Spruce, 4123.— Very near A. Raddiamnn. 



128'-. A. (Chrys.) cul'ratum, Baker; climbs on trees with fronds 6 ft. 1. ; 

 barren pinnce ligulate, 6-8 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., cut down to the rachis or a narrow 

 wing into entire close blunt obovate lobes f-^ in. br., cuneately narrowed to 

 a broad base, or rarely produced and oblong, often several of the lower or 

 sometimes the central lobes confluent ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces green, 

 naked ; areolce small, exappendiculate ; fertile jnnnce and lobes like those of the 

 barren fr., but the latter distant, 2-2| lin. br. 



Hab. San Cristoval, Solomon Isles, H, Richards, in Ilerh. 3Iaclcaij. 



128*. Kuhn, Bot. Zeit. 27. p. 437, founds on Aci'ostichum pteroiclcs a new 

 genus, Neurosoria, but his plant is described as having the sori confined to the 

 nerves, and is therefore apparently not ours, which is truly acrostichoid. 



LXIII.— TODEA. Page 427—8. 



2*. T. (Lept.) Moorei, Baker ;/r. oblong-deltoid, 1,^-2 ft. 1., 1 ft. br.,bipinna 

 tifid ; ^>zre?Kt' imbricated, lanceolate, sessile, the lower 1^-2 in. br. ; /)'/«h7, close, 

 sessik', lanceolate, cut down nearly to the rachis into close erecto-patent blunt 

 ligulate lobes, toothed on outer edge ; surfaces naked ; texture tliicker than in 

 the other species ; sori oblong, placed against costa near base of jnunules. — 

 Journ. Bot. 1873, j?. 16. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 



