Prats 30. 
POLYPODIUM (Puyrmaropss) arrenvatum, Br. 
Attenuated Polypody. 
Po.ypopium (Phymatodes) attenuatwm ; caudex long, creeping, subulato-squa- 
mose towards the apex; fronds scattered, a span to a.foot and a half long, 
firm-coriaceous, glossy, linear-loriform, scarcely acuminated, acute, the base 
attenuated into a short stipes, destitute of scales, articulated on the caudex ; 
costa very stout, prominent beneath ; veins subuniformly reticulated, forming 
long narrow areoles next the costa with no free veins ; sori copious, large, 
elliptical, prominent, in single series between the costa and the margin, and 
originating both from the surface of the areoles and of the veins. 
PotyPopium attenuatum. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 146 (not Hook. Ie. Plant. 
t. 409, nor Gen. Fil. t. 11 B, nor of All. Cunn., nor of Richard, which are 
Dictymia lanceolata, J. Sm. of New Zealand). Sieb. Syn. Fil. n. 93, and 
Fl. Miat. n. 237. 
Dicryopreris attenuata. Pr. Lent. Pterid. p.194. Moore. 
Dictymra attenuata. J. Sm., in Comp. Bot. Mag.v. 12, p. 16. 
PoLyropium Brownianum. Spr. (fide Presi) and Drynaria Browniana, Fée. 
PoLtyPopium Brownii. “ Wickstr.” Metten. Polypod. p. 85, but evidently, judg- 
ing from references, including J. Smith’s Dictymia lanceolata. 
Has. New Holland : Port Jackson, Brown, Sieber, n. 93, Clowes, Fraser ; Hast- 
ings River, Dr. Beckler ; Cunningham’s Gap, Victoria, #. Mueller. Island 
of Viti-Levu, Fiji group, Milne, Captain Denham’s Voyage of the ‘ Herald,’ 
Cultivated at Kew. 
A very distinct and well-marked species, though I was led 
formerly to publish another plant, the Dzctymia lanceolata, J. 
Sm., under that name, from having so received what I believed 
to be authentic specimens, from Allan Cunningham, and from 
the too brief character given by Mr. Brown. Allan Cunningham 
does not appear to have found the true P. attenwatum, in Aus- 
tralia, to which country, however, it is not peculiar, for I have 
received specimens from the Fiji Islands. On the other hand, 
Dictymia lanceolata, J. Sm.in Hook. Fil. Fl. N. Zeal. v. 2. p. 43 
(which may be called Polypodium (Phymatodes) Cunningham, by 
those who do not sanction Dictymiaof J. Sm., or Dictyoptervs, Pr.), 
is not confined to New Zealand. I possess specimens from the 
island of Mallecolla, one of the New Hebrides, gathered by Mr. C. 
Moore, of Sydney (n. 50). It is remarkable that Dr. Mettenius, 
in his work on “ Polypodium,” takes no notice of this latter plant, 
except as he confounds it with the P. attenuatum, Br. (his P. 
Brownit), for he describes the fronds as sometimes “ spathulato- 
auGust 1st, 1861. 
