Puats 46. 
DRYMOGLOSSUM prnosettomes, Pr. 
Pilosella-leaved Drymoglossum. 
DryMoctossum piloselloides; caudex long, filiform, creeping, wiry, clothed 
with closely pressed, small, ovate, laciniated, peltate scales and rooting here 
and there with short villous fibres; stipites two to ten lines long (in the 
fertile frond), distant, jointed and deciduous near the base, which is scaly ; 
fronds of two kinds; s¢erile ones from half an inch to two inches long, or- 
bicular, subcordate, obovate or elliptical, thick and fleshy, coriaceous when 
dry, undivided, entire at the margins, glabrous, indistinctly costate ; veins 
anastomosing, the areoles including free, simple, or branched and divari- 
cating veinlets ; fertile fronds linear-oblong, obtuse, tapering at the base ; 
sori in a line just within the margin, at first narrow, eventually spreading 
so as to cover the whole back, with a furrow down the middle; capsules 
mixed with stellated, paleaceous, peltate, and pedicellate hairs. 
Dipymoe.ossum piloselloides. Pr. Lent. Pterid. p. 227. J. Sm. in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. v. 4. p.66. Pr. Epimel. Bot. p.156. Fée, Mém. Vittar. p. 30. 
Prerorsts piloselloides (e¢ Pt. nummularia). Desv. Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris, v. 6. 
p. 28. 
Preris piloselloides. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1530. Banks, Ic. Kempf. t.31. Sw. 
Syn. Fil. p. 94 and 286. t.2. f. 2. Schk. Fil. p. 83. t. 87. Willd. Sp. 
Pil. v. 5. p. 355 (not of Thunb. Jap.). 
NotHocuiana piloselloides. Kaulf. Enum. p. 133. Wall. Cat. n. 139. Bi. 
Fil. Jav. p. 67. 
Acrosticuum heterophyllum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1523. 
PreeR nummularium. Lam. Ill. v. 1. p. 82 (according to authors). Rheed. 
Flort, Malad. v.12. p. 57. t. 29. 
Has. Tropical India, most abundant, flourishing on the mossy trunks of trees, 
and amongst other decaying vegetable matter: Malay Islands, Malacca, and 
the continent of British India westward to Nilghiri (4%. Beddome) ; Sin- 
capore, Tenasserim, and Silhet, Wallich, n. 139; Chittagong, Hook. fil. and 
Thomson ; Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1156.—Cultivated in the Royal Gardens of 
Kew. 
A well-marked species, of a peculiar, and, if the dimorphal 
fronds be considered, general habit, and texture, an easily recog- 
nized genus. M. Fée adopts three species, and adds a fourth 
rather doubtfully ; and a fifth he has published in his ‘ Icono- 
graphie,’ with monomorphous fronds, in opposition to one of his 
most important definitions. Drymoglossum, “a Tenitide longe 
distat frondibus dissimilaribus.” Still more is it contrary to 
nature to unite the West Indian Zenitis lanceolata, Kaulf., 
DECEMBER lst, 1861. 
