326 48. POLYPODIUM, §§§§§ KUPOLYPODIUM. 



133. P. exigumi, Griseb. ; st. tufted, thread-like, very short, naked ; fr. 

 pendulous, 6-24 in. 1., 2 lin. br. ; pinnce ^-1 lin. 1., | lin. br., half-ovate, blunt, 

 entire or with a single crenation on the upper side, distant, but the base broadly 

 dilated on both sides ; texture subcoriaceous ; both sides naked ; veins and son 

 1 to each pinna, the former forked.— GlWieJ. Fl. Brit. W. Ind.p. 701. 



Hab. Jamaica, Furdie. 



134. P. trichomanoides, Swz. ; st. densely tufted, short, clothed with soft 

 spreading deciduous hairs ; // S-6 in. 1., 2-4 lin. br., cut down to the rachis into 

 close linear-oblong blunt pinruh under 1 lin. br. ; rachis wiry, ebeneous ; textwe 

 subcoriaceous, the surfaces naked or slightly clothed with soft hairs ;, tow and 

 sori 1 in each pinna, the former forked, the latter near the base. — Hh. Sp. 4. 

 p. 178. 



Hab. Cuba to Brazil and Ecuador ; Juan Fernandez, Ascension Island, Malacca, 

 Sikkim. 



135. P. flabelliforme, Lam. ; st. tufted, short, fringed with long soft hairs ; 

 fr. flaccid, 4-12 in. 1., f-J in. br., cut down throughout nearly or quite to the 

 rachis into entire or slightly crenate blunt pinnw 1-lg lin. br., which are 

 decurrent at the base ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; racMs and both sides 

 naked or with a few long soft hairs ; swi large, 1-3 to a pinna, terminal on the 

 short simple veinlets. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 187. 



Hab. Columbia to Peru. — Distinguisbed in the group by its flaccid habit, slender black 

 filiform rachis, and few sori. 



136. P. siAtile, Kunze ; st. tufted, slender, very short ; fr. flaccid, 3-4 in. L; 

 2-4 lin. br., ligulate, narrowed gradually towards both ends, cut down to the 

 rachis throughout into close entire blunt pinn(B ^-| lin. br. ; texture papy- 

 raceo-herbaceous ; rachis black, like both sides thinly clothed with long soft 

 hairs-; sori S-6 to a pinna, terminating the short veinlets.— ZZ^. 8p. 4. p. 187. 

 t. 275. A. 



Hab. Venezuela to Peru. — Lobes narrower and closer than in the last, and texture 

 almost that of a thin Adiantvm. P. mbscahrvm, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 183. t. 274. A. is appa- 

 rently this ; but it is not the plant of Klotzsch. 



137. P. delicatuhim, M. & G. ; rhizome wide-creeping, slender ; st. tufted, 

 wiry, 1-2 in. 1., densely clothed with long soft hairs ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., -j in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close blunt entire pinnce 1-1^ lin. br., the lower ones 

 broader and shorter ; textwe subcoriaceous ; veinlets simple ; both sides thinly 

 clothed with long soft hairs ; sori copious, subimmersed, 6-8 to a pinna. — Hk, 

 Sp. 4. p. 184. 



Hab. Mexico to Ecuador. 



138. P. peruvianwm, Desv. ; rhizome creeping, fibrillose ; st. 1-2 in. 1., slender, 

 erect, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fr. 3-4 in. 1., J-J in, br., cut down to 

 the rachis into oblong-triangular blunt entire pinnce A in. br. ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; both sides nearly naked ; veinlets immersed, simple ; sori rather 

 large, 2-4 to a pinna.— ffl;. Sp. 4. p. 186. P. anfractuosum, Kise. 



Hab. Venezuela and Peru. — This comes very near the next species. P. i 

 Klotzsch, is probably a reduced form. It is described as csespitose ; but in our specimen 

 the rhizome is slender and greatly elongated, with the fronds 2-3 in. distant from one 

 another. 



139. P. panmhm, Bory ; rhizome stout, short-creeping, clothed with linear 

 scales ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., I in. br., tapering gradually downwards into a very short 



