332 48. POLYPODIUM, §§§§§ EUPOLYPODIUM. 



texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and under surface thinly clothed with minute ovate 

 toothed scales ; veinlets obscure, simple ; son in 2 long rows. — MJc. Sp. 4. p. 278. B. 



Hab. Guatemala ; gathered by Mr. Skinner. 



173. P. fur/uraceum, Schlecht. ; rhizome strong, densely clothed with brown 

 woolly fibrils ; St. 3-4 in. 1., rigid, erect, scaly and villose ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 2-4 

 in. br., cut down to the rachis into linear acute or bluntish entire pinnx 2 lin. 

 br., dilated on both sides at the base ; teocture coriaceous ; rachis and under side 

 clothed with dense scales and soft spreading hairs ; veinlets forked ; sori in 2 long 

 rows.— ^/t. Sp. 4. p. 213. 



Hab. Mexico. — ^Eigid habit and dense scales of Lepicystis, but the veins free. 



174. P. papiUoswm, Blutne ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, scaly ; St. 4-6 in, 

 1., erect, slender, rigid, naked ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 2 in. br., cut down to the 

 rachis into close horizontal blunt entire or faintly crenated pinnce 2-3 lin. br. ; 

 texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veins black, 

 distinct, once forked ; sori in rows near the edge, deeply immersed, the cavity 

 prominent on the upper side. — Hk. Sp. 4. p. 198. 2nd Cent. t. 46. 



Hab. Java and Philippinei. 



175. P. apiculatum, Kze. ; rhizome stout, woody, short-creeping or suberecfc; 

 basal scales grey, linear cancellate ; st. 1-2 in., rigid, erect, grey, finely pubescent 

 like rachis ; Jr. lanceolate-caudate, 6-8 in. 1., 1-1 J in. br., cut down to rachis 

 into adnate 30-40-jugate, linear, subacute pimnw 1 lin. br., the lowest gradually 

 reduced ; texture moderately firm, not flexible ; surfaces dull-green, naked ; veins 

 8-12-jugate, obscure, forked ; sori round, superficial, filling up the space between 

 edge and midrib. — Si. Sp. 4. p. 185. Baker, Fil. Bras. p. 615. P. confluens, 

 F^, Fil. Bras. t. 2Q.fig. 3. 



Hab. Columbia, Guiana, and Brazil. 



176. P. elasticim. Rich. ; rhizome stout, woody, short-creeping or suberect ; 

 scafe brown, linear ; st. 1-3 in., black, slender, naked ; fi: lanceolate, 9-18 in. 1., 

 2-4 in. br., cut down to rachis into ligulate, patent, adnate, entire, blunt 40-100- 

 jugate pinnce, lower gradually reduced ; texture very elastic ; surfaces naked, 

 except black wiry rachis ; veinlets forked, obscure, 15-20-jugate ; sori minute, 

 superficial, medial. P. Plumula, H. B. K. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 200, ex parte. P. pul- 

 Qhvnm,M.&G.,Hk.Sp.i:.p.\m. P. Schkuhri, 22a(^& 



Hab. Mexico to Peru and Brazil. — P. FilicuXa, Kaulf., ia a small variety. 



177. P. taxifolium, L. ; rhizome stout, scaly ; st. subtufted, 2-4 in. 1., erect, 

 rigid, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fr. 6-12 in. or more 1., 1^-3 in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close entire or slightly crenated blunt horizontal pinnce 

 l|-2 lin. br., the lower ones distant and much reducsd ; texture papyraceo- 

 herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; rachis naked or villose ; hoth sides naked ; veinlets 

 simple, very distinct, with the sori terminal upon them. — P. Plumula, Hk, Sp. 

 4. p. 200, ex parte. P. L'Herminieri, FSe, Fil. Ant. 1. 12. 



Hab. Guatemala, West Indies, Ecuador, South Brazil. — Well distinguished by its 

 finely-cut pectinate habit and simple oblique usually distinctly-marked veinlets, with the 

 sori terminal upon them. 



178. P. recurvatum, Kaulf. ; rhizome creeping, the scales ovate-lanceolate, 

 bright-ferruginous ; st. 3-6 in. 1., firm, erect ; fr. 1-3 ft. 1., 4-6 in. br., cut down 

 to the rachis into close entire acuminate pinnce ^-\ in. br., the lower ones 

 quite distinct, not smaller than the others ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis finely 

 pubescent ; veins obscure, forked ; sori in a single medial line. — Mett. Polyp, 

 p. 60. 



