Prats 20. 
NIPHOBOLUS anevstatus, Spr. 
Large-fruited Niphobolus. 
NirHopoLus angustatus ; caudex long, creeping, branched, radicant, about the 
thickness of a duck’s quill, clothed with closely imbricating, falcate, subu- 
lato-setaceous scales, especially in the younger portions; fronds scattered, 
distant, thick, coriaceo-carnose, from five inches to a span or more long, 
tapering below intoa stout petiole, glabrous above, hoary with dense stellated 
pubescence beneath, costate, acute-or apiculate; sterile fronds usually the 
smallest and broadest, and with shorter petioles, broad- or oblong-lanceolate, 
fertile ones longer and generally narrower in proportion; primary veins 
patent, slender, distant, parallel, these are connected by slightly curved 
transverse ones, forming areoles which include several, free or united, and 
slightly branched, ultimate veinlets; sori large, subglobose or oval, par- 
tially sunk in the frond, and forming on each side the costa a chain or single 
series between the costa and margin, sometimes longitudinally confluent. 
NIPHOBOLUS angustatus. Spr. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 44. 
PoLypoDIuM angustatum. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 27 and 224. Willd. Sp. Pl. p. 154. 
Schk. Fil. p. 187. t. 8c. 
NipwHopsis angustatus. J. Sm. Cat. Cult. Ferns, p. 6 
N1pHOBOLUs spherocephalus. Hook. and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 94. 
Po.typopium spherocephalum. Wail. Cat. n. 272. 
PLEOPELTIS angustatus. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 193; Epimel. Bot. p. 126. 
NipHopo us macrocarpus. Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 14. ¢, 18. 
PLEOPELTIS macrosora. Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 126. 
Has. East Indies : “ Tranquebar, Roettler”’ (Swartz); Assam, Jenkins; Sincapore 
Wallich, Schomburgk ; Malacca, Griffith, Cuming, n. 372; Penang, Dr. 
Lorraine; Borneo, Wallace; Labuan, Thomas Lobb. Pacific Islands: 
Pitcairne’s Island, Cuming, n. 1894, Mathews, n. 13; Coral Islands, Lay 
and Collie; Tahiti, Barclay. North-east Australia: Brisbane River, F. 
Mueller.—Cultivated in the fern-stoves of Kew. 
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The size of the fronds, and the very large sori, oval or subglo- 
bose, arranged ina single series, on each side of the costa, if taken 
in conjunction with the venation, when that can be seen, dis- 
tinguish this fine species of Miphodolus. The genus, which we 
have hesitated whether to abandon or to retain, has been gene- 
rally received, and the peculiar stellated tomentum on the fronds 
MaY Ist, 1861. 
