PLATE 14. 
POLYPODIUM (Puymavoprs) Lorirorme, Wall. 
Strap-shaped Polypody. 
Potypopium (Phymatodes) loriforme; caudex moderately stout, creeping, 
branched, clothed with imbricated, appressed, grey-brown scales; fronds 
distant, a span to a foot or more long, subcoriaceous, lorato-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, strongly costate, entire, tapering gradually 
below into a short stipes, setoso-squamose at its very base; veins anasto- 
mosing, und forming rather large hexagonal areoles, with free clavate vein- 
lets; sori usually large, in a regular series between the costa and the 
margin, globose or suboblong, superficial or scarcely sunk, concealed when 
young by copious peltate scales. 
Potypopium loriforme. Wall. Cat. n. 271. Metten. Polypod. p. 92. t. 1. f.49, 
50 (fragments only). 
Puymatonss loriforme. Presl, Tent. Pterid. p. 196. 
Drynazia loriformis. J. Sm. Hook. Journ. of Bot. v. 4. t. 61. 
Puieopettis loriformis. Pr. 
PLeopettis nuda. Hook. Exot. Fi. t. 63 (not of Gen. Fil. t. 18, which is an 
allied species, Polypod. (Phymatodes) excavatum, Willd.). 
Potypopium Wightianum. Wall. Cat. n, 2222. 
PotyPopium gladiatum, Wall. Cat. n. 279. 
Has. East Indies: apparently common in all the hilly and mountain regions, 
from 5-10,000 feet in elevation, in Himalaya (Hooker and Thomson) ; abun- 
dant in the Nilghiries. Ceylon, frequent, Gardner and others. Sumatra, 
Tuschemacher. China: Foochowfoo, Alexander; Amoy, Hance, n. 1410; 
Hongkong, Dr. Harland. Japan, Miss Nelson. Pacific Ocean: Oahu, 
Douglas, n. 56, Seemann, Barclay, Macrae, Nuttall, Beechey, Dr. Diell.— 
Cultivated at Kew. 
A species which has evidently a wide geographical range, but 
not extending, as far as we yet know, to Africa, unless indeed 
the Polypodium excavatum, Willd., Polyp. sesquipedale, Wall. and 
Mettenius, should prove identical, which seems very possible 
(for we find here the sori more or less sunk, and the venation is 
not very different), and never occurring in America. 
I believe the first published description was under our name 
of Pleopeltis nuda above quoted, a genus of Humboldt which is 
hardly tenable. I should have probably retained the specific 
name here, but that there is a Polypodium nudum of Mettenius. 
Puate 14, Polypodium (Phymatodes) loriforme, Wall.,—natural size. Fig. 
1. Portion of a fertile frond, showing the venation and sori,—magnijfied. 2. Cap- 
sule. 3. Peltate scale from the sorus :—more magnified. 
APRIL Ist, 1861. 
