283 44. NEPHRODIUM, §§ EUNEPHEODIUM. 



midrib, villose ; veins in groups of 8-10 on a side, which are slightly united or 

 , tiuitefree Hi. Sp. 4. p. 6i. 2nd Cent, t, 25. A-. Franconunii J'oz«r«. 



Hab. Guatemala, Shmnerj Andes of Ecuador, Spruce, 5293. 



166. N. Wriffhtii, Hk. ; »-A«>ome creeping ; st. 4-6 in. 1., firm, erect, greyish ; 

 fir. 6-9 in. 1., 1-1 J in. br., lanceolate-oblong, cut down nearly to the raohis above 

 and quite below into close, oblong, entire, or auricled, spreading lobes J-J in. br. ; 

 texture coriaceous ; rachis and under surface villose ; veinlets in groups of 10-18 

 on a side, sometimes forked ; sori submarginal. — Hk, Sp. 4. p. 64. *. 239, 



Hab. Cuba, Wright, 824. 



157. N. scohpendrioides, Hk. ; St. tufted, 2-4 in. I., scaly ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 

 1-2 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, the point acute, central lobes reaching nearly 

 down to the rachis, oblong, nearly entire, close or with a space between them, 

 lower ones quite free and gradually smaller ; texture papyraceo-herbaceons ; 

 rachis and under side finely hairy ; veinlets of the lobes forked or sometimes 

 slightly pinnate and the groups joining ; invol. very fugacious. — Hh. Sp. 4. p. 65. 

 Fil. Ex. t. 18. Polypod. L. 



Hab. "West Indies. — ^We include here Goniopt. strigosa, ferax, affinis, and dommgensis 

 of Ffe. 



158. N. invisum, Baker ; st. tufted, 2-6 in. 1., stramineous, scaly below ; fr. 

 1 ft. or morfe 1., j-1^ in. br., linear-oblong, lobes triangular or lanceolate, often 

 not reaching more than one-third down to the rachis, the frond narrowed very 

 graduaPy below so as to form a scarcely cut wing to the stem ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; unde/ surface finely villose ; veins in simply pinnated groups of 

 6-12 on a side ; invol, very fugacious. — Polypod. Sw. N. stenopteris, Hk, Sp. 4. 

 p. 65. 



Hab. West Indies and New Granada. 



** Fronds large, pinnate ; rhizome wide-creeping. Sp. 159-170. 

 + Lower pinnm lordly, if at all, reduced, Sp. 159-170. 



159. N. Otaria, Baker ; st. 6-12 in. 1., substramineous ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 

 with a linear-oblong terminal pinna 4-6 in. 1., 1-lJ in. br,, the apex acuminate, 

 the margin with finely serrated lanceolate lobes reaching \-\ of the way down, 

 and 3-6 distant spreading similar lateral ones on each side, the lower ones 

 stalked ; texture thinly herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veins 

 pinnate in each lobe, the groups united from about midway from the midrib to 

 the edge ; veinlets 6-8 on each side, with sometimes a sorus on each. — N. aris- 

 tatum, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 62. t. 238, Anisocampium, Presl, 



Hab. Philippines, Neilgherries, Ceylon. 



160. N. distans, Hk. ; st. 1 ft. or more 1., firm, erect, brownish, slightly 

 villose ; fr. l|-2 ft. 1., 8-10 in. br. ; pinnas spreading, 3-4 in. ]., j in. br., very 

 slightly lobed, the lower one^ rather smaller than the others ; textuxe papyraceo- 

 herbaceous ; rachis and midrib beneath villose and veins slightly so ; veins 

 pinnate in the lobes, with 6-6 veinlets on a side ; rows of sori filling up nearly 

 the whole space between the midrib and the next row : caps, naked. — Hk. Sp. 4. 

 p. 76. 



Hab. Madagascar, Boivin; Jobanna Island, Dr. Kirh—Thia in venation and pinnae 

 comes under Abacopteris,^ F4e ; and Dr. Kirk's specimens show that it dififers distinctly 

 from N. glomdulosum, by its strong wide-creeping rhizome, 



161. N. varians, Fee ; st. 1 ft. 1., smootli, with linear, blackish scales at the 



