48. POLrPODIOM, §§§§§ EUPOLYPODIDM. 339 



forked or sabpinnatifid lobes ; P. EUlebrandii, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 228, is probably a Invariant 

 form of this species ; the plnnse are 3 in. 1., and the sort Bometimes 2 to a lobe, aod not 

 quite terminal. 



217. P. ath/rioides, Hk. ; st. 2-3 in. 1., firm, wiry, slightly hairy ; fr. 8-12 in. 

 1., 2 in. br. ; pinnos close, linear-lanceolate, j in. br., cut halfway down to the 

 rachis into close oblong lobes ; lower pinnae reduced very gradually ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, slightly villose ; both sides nearly naked ; 'ceinlets 

 simple, 1 to each lobe ; sori oblong, copious. — Sk. Sp. 4. p. 224. t. 277. B. 



Hab. Peru, McUtheies, 1103. 



218. P. murorum, Hk. ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, densely clothed with 

 linear scales ; St. 4-8 in. 1., wiry, glossy, naked ; fr. 4-8 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., 

 ovate-lanceolate ; pinncB quite distinct, the lower ones varying from linear and 

 nearly entire to lanceolate (| in. br.) and deeply pinnatifid ; texture coriaceous ; 

 veins hidden ; under sutface thinly coated with scales ; sari large, in two long 

 rows.— SJ;. >S^. 4. p. 216. Ic. t. 70. 



Hab. Andes of Colnmbia and Ecuador. 



219. P. microph^llinutn, Mett. ; St. 3-4 in. 1., slender, flexuose, naked ; fr. 

 pendent, 3-4 in. 1., |-1 in. br. ; pinnos erecto-patent, flexuose, ^ in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close regular obovate lobes ^ lin. br. ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; rachis and under side slightly villose ; veinlets immersed, 1 to each 

 lobe ; soi-i 1 to each lobe. 



Hab. Peru, Lechler. 



****** Fronds tri-quadripinnatifid. Sp. 220-224. 



220. P. millefolium, Blume ; St. 1-8 in. 1., clothed with spreading ferruginous 

 hairs ; fr. 8 in. 1., 1^ in. br. ; pinnae j in. 1., ovate-lanceolate, cut down to the 

 rachis into linear-oblong or spathulate toothed or pinnatifid pinnl. j in. 1. ; 

 texture ^im, subcoriaceous ; under surface slightly hairy; veinlets simple or forked ; 

 s^jri terminal. — Mat. Pob/. p. 54. 



Hab. Java, Zollinger, 1723, fide Mettenius. 



221. P. onttstum, Hk. ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, densely clothed with 

 grey adpressed scales ; st. 4-6 in. 1., wiry, erect, naked or slightly scaly ; fr. 

 6-12 in. 1., 3-5 in. br., ovate ; lower pinna lanceolate or subdeltoid, cut down to 

 a winged rachis into pinnatifid rhomboidal lobes ; texture thick, coriaceous ; 

 under surface with scattered scales ; sori large, prominent, often 1 to each lobe. — 

 Hk. Sp. 4. p. 216. Ic. t. 749. 



Hab. Andes of Columbia and Ecuador. 



1. P. IHedrichsthalianum, Kze. ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, clothed with 

 adpressed scale's ; St. 3-4 in. 1., why, erect, deciduously scaly ; fr. flaccid. 



222. 

 grey ad_ 



12-18 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnos very numerous, imbricated, "deltoid, the largest 

 2 in. 1., 1 in. br., cut down to the rachis into deeply pinnatifid blunt linear 

 pinnl. with short blunt lobes ; rachis and under side densely scaly ; sori small, 

 1 to each lobe. —Bk. Sp. 4. ^.217. 



Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



223. P. dareceforme, Hk. ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, clothed with dense 

 linear pale-brown scales ; st. 6-9 in. 1., naked, glossy ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 8-12 in. br., 

 subdeltoid ; lower pinnae 4-6 in. 1., 1 j-2 in. br., lanceolate-deltoid ; pinnl. oblong- 

 lanceolate, the segm. with forked or entire linear distant ult. divisions ; texture 



