Prats 19. 
NIPHOBOLUS anwascens, Ki. 
Close-growing Niphobolus. 
" Nipnosoxus adnascens ; caudex elongate, creeping, branched, as thick as a 
blackbird’s quill, paleaceous with lanceolate-setaceous scales, rooting below ; 
fronds of two forms, scattered, distant, coriaceo-carnose, dark-green above, 
but hoary witha scattered stellated pubescence, beneath paler with more co- 
- pious and stellated pubscence, very obtuse, or acute, bluntly carinate be- 
neath, above subcanaliculate at the costa; stipes one to two inches long ; 
sterile fronds two to four inches long, spathulate or broad-lanceolate ; fertile 
ones six to eight inches long, linear or oblong in both, tapering below into 
the stipes ; primary veins oblique, connected by transversely slightly arcu- 
ated ones, forming areoles in which are two to three free veinlets, clavate at 
their apex ; sori copious, compact, rather small, situated between the costa 
and the margin, sunk in cavities of the fleshy frond, and arranged in trans- 
versely oblique series of a cinnamon-brown colour, suborbicular, but a little 
irregular in shape. 
Potypopium adnascens. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 25 and 222. t. 2. f. 2. 
Nipyopotvus adnascens. Kifs. En. Fil. p. 124. Wall. Cat. n. 268. J. Sm. Cat. 
Gard. Ferns, p. 12. 
CycLopHorus adnascens. Desv. in Berl. Mag. v. 5. p. 300 ; Journ. Bot.v. 1. p. 20. 
PoLypopium pertusum. Roxb. in Hook. Huot. Fl. t.162. Metten. Fil. Hort. 
Lips. p. 33. 
NIPHOBOLUS pertusus. Spr. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 44. Pr. Tent. Plerid. p. 201. 
Epimel. Bot. p. 127, excl. syn. 
CRASPEDARIA pertusa. Link, Hort. Berol. p. 118. 
NipHosotts carnosus. Bl. Fil. Jav. Ic. p. 50.¢.19. Pr. Hpim. p. 126. 
Ponypopium carnosum. Metten. Polypod. p. 124. 
NipHosotvs elongatus. Bl. Fl. Jav. Ic. p. 52. ¢.20. Pr. Epim. p. 126. 
NreHopo.us varius. J. Sa. Hook. Journ. of Bot. v. 3. p. 396. 
PoLyPopiumM carnosum, var. elongatum. Metten. Polypod. p. 124. 
PoLypopium verrucosum. Wall. Cat. 2. 267. 
Potypopium caudatum. Metten. Polypod. p. 126. 
NipHoso.vs caudatus. Kaulf. En. p.127. Bl. Fil. Jav. Ic. p. 56. ¢. 22. Pr. 
Epim. p. 127. 
PrieorELtis Commersoniana. Willd. ; and Niphobolus Chamissoanus, Pr. Tent. 
Pierid. p. 127 (fide Metten.). 
PoLyPopiuM vittarioides. Wall. Cat. p. 270. 
CycLopsorus vittarioides. Pr. Epim. Bot. p.129. Metten. Polypod. p. 126. 
NIPHOBOLUS vittarioides. Pr. Tent. Plerid. p. 202. 
Has. India: Madras Peninsula, Wight, Heyne ; Concan, Law; Eastern Bengal, 
Nepal, Assam, Khasya, Wallich, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson ; Hima- 
laya, Kumaon (Strachey and Winterbottom) ; Silhet, Nepal, Sikkim, Wal- 
lich, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson, Booth. Malay Archipelago and 
may Ist, 1861. 
