370 ON A COLLECTION OF FERNS MADE IN MADAGASCAR. 



brown, densely pubescent. Lower pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 1-1 i ft. 

 long, about \ ft. broad ; pinnules lanceolate, sessile, f-1 in. broad, 

 cut down to a narrow distinct wing into oblong obtuse tertiary 

 segments with round lobes reaching about half-way down. Veins 

 copiously pinnate in the tertiary segments, with forked lower 

 veinlets. Sori large, globose, superficial, generally placed one at 

 the base of each 4 -nary lobe, 10-12 to each tertiary segment. 

 Between Tamatave and Antananarivo. Named after my relative, 

 Mr. I. Sharp, whom Mr. Kitching accompanied on a missionary 

 visit to Madagascar. General habit and cutting of Nephrodinm 

 Boryanwti, and a near ally of the Himalayan Poly podium sub- 

 tripinnatiim, C. B. Clarke in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot., 2nd ser., vol.i., 

 p. 545, plate 80, fig. 1. 



96*. Polypodium (Eupolypodium) holophleuium, Baker, n. sp. 

 Bhizome slender, short-creeping ; paleae minute, lanceolate, dull 

 brown. Stipe under an inch long, dull brown, finely pilose. 

 Lamina entire, linear, moderately firm in texture, green on both 

 sides, obscurely pilose, principally on the edge and midrib beneath, 

 3-4 in. long, i-i in. broad, obtuse, narrowed gradually at the base. 

 Veins close, regular, simple, distinct, erecto-patent, ending in 

 a dot a short distance from the margin. Sori round or round- 

 oblong, superficial, forming a couple of long rows close to the 

 midrib, dorsal as regards the veins. Tanala. General habit, 

 texture, and raising very like those of P. manjinellum. 



106' : '. Polypodium (Eupolypodium) crytophlebium, Baker, n. sp. 

 Bhizome slender, short-creeping ; palese minute, brown, adpressed, 

 lanceolate. Stipe scarcely any. Lamina entire, linear, very rigid 

 and coriaceous in texture, minutely pilose, obtuse, narrowed very 

 gradually to the base, H-2 in. long, f-J in. broad. Veins quite 

 hidden, arcuate-ascending, forked. Sori oblong, superficial, filling 

 up the whole space between the midrib and margin of the frond 

 except in the narrowed basal portion, the oblong oblique re- 

 ceptacles nearer the midrib than the edge. Between Tamatave and 

 Antananarivo. 



B. Gil pin a-, Baker. 



P. semdatuiti, Mett. 



P. subjdnnatiim, Baker. Tanala. 



145*. Polypodium (Eupolypodium) macrorhynchum, Baker, n. sp. 

 Bhizome slender, wide-creeping ; paleae small, brown, lanceolate, 

 adpressed. Stipe wiry, naked, erect, under an inch long. Lamina 

 lanceolate, subcoriaceous, green and glabrous on both sides, 2-3 in. 

 long, f-£ in. broad, with a long simple linear tip, cut down to the 

 rachis in the central portion into erecto-patent obtuse entire oblong 

 or oblong-deltoid pinnae, the largest about J in. long, narrowed 

 cuneately at the base into a very narrow decurrent wing to the 

 stipe. Veins hidden. Sori superficial, round or oblong, confined 

 to the small upper pinnae and the entire beak-like tip of the frond, 

 which is about an inch long. Tanala. Allied to the Australian 

 and New Zealand P. urammitidw, E. Br., from which it is marked by 

 its caudate fronds and fewer shorter pimm>. 



P. devvlutum. Baker. Tanala. 



