494 NBPHEODIUM. 



scaly ; veins simple, distant, 8-5-jugate ; sori minute, medial ; ini), fugacious.— 

 Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn, 36.^. 116. Polyp, incisum, Mart. & Gal. Foug. Mem. 

 p. AS. 



Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



17*. N. (Last.) HopeanvM, Baker ; St. 12-16 in., grey, glossy, naked ;/r. oMong- 

 lanceolate, 1 ft. 1., 6-7 in. br., bipinnatifid ; pinnce distant, sessile, caudate, lower 

 3-4 in. 1., |-j in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into ligulate-falcate entire 

 lobes \ in. br., the lowest of which on both sides are much reduced ; tip of fr. 

 like one of the pinnae ; texture subcoriaoeous ; ra/ihis grey, slightly pubescent ; 

 sxurfaces dull-green, naked ; veins simple, arcuate, close, distinct, raised, 10-12- 

 jugate ; sori crowded close to midrib ; inv. firm, persistent. 



Hab. Ovalau Viti, lAeut. Hope. 



19*. N. (Last.) Bracienridgei, Baker ; st. 2-3 ft., grey, naked ; fr. 2-4 ft. 1,, 1-1 J 

 ft. br., oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatiiid ; lowev pinnw short-stalked, 6-9 in. 1., 1-1 J 

 in. br.,much reduced on the lower side, with a gland at the base, cut down nearly 

 or quite to the rachis into close falcate acute pinnl. 1-lJ lin. br., of which the 

 lower on both sides are much reduced ; texture subcoriaoeous ; rachis and surfaces 

 dull-green, naked ; veins close, distinct, 12-20-jugate ; sori minute, subcostular ; 

 inv. firm, glabrous, persistent. — Aspidium, Mett. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4. vol. 15. 

 p. 75. Lastrea attenuata, Brad, not J, Sm, N. insequilaterale, Baker, Syn. Fil, 

 edit. l.p. 454. 



Hab. Yiti and Samoa. 



26*. N. (Last.) Bichardsi, Baker ; rachis grey, densely shortly downy ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 15-18 in. 1., 8-9 in. br. ; pinnai moderately close, 

 patent, ligulate-caudate, | in, br., cut down to a narrow wing into close ligulate 

 slightly repand blunt lobes 1 lin. br. ; lowest pinnse not reduced, their lowest 

 lobes on both sides slightly so ; texture membranous ; both sides downy on the 

 ribs ; veins distant, distinct, 7-8-jugate ; sm medial j inv, firm, persistent, slightly 

 pilose. 



Hab. New Caledonia, jRicha/rds, 



29. N. (Last.) cakaratum, var. ciliatum (Wall) ; racMs densely pubescent ; 

 pinnce broader than in the type (^ in.), with broader blunter less ascending lobes. 

 — Aspidium ciliatum, Wall. Lastrea sericea, Scott, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 308. 



Hab. East Himalayas. 



29*. N. (Last.) Prenticei, Baker ; rachises grey, slightly downy ; Jr. rhom- 

 boid, bipinnatifid, 1 ft. 1. ; pinnce close, erecto-patent, ligulate-aouminate, lower 

 6-6 in. 1., |-| in. br., narrowed gradually to a long base with a ouneate wing, 

 cut down nearly to the rachis into close falcate much-ascending subacute lobes 

 ^ in. br. ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veins 9-10- 

 jugate, much-ascending ; sori medial ; inv, small, persistent, glabrous.— Lastrea 

 Prenticei, Carruth. Fl. Vit. p. 359. 



Hab. Ngau Viti, Mac^lVmay. 



30*. N. {h%%\:,) phamwopUMvm, Baker; st, and rachis Square, grey, finely 

 pubescent ; fr, lanceolate-deltoid, bipinnatifid, 16-18 in. 1., 7-8 in. br. ; pirnice 

 ligulate caudate, moderately close, subsessile, lowest largest, j in. br., cut down 

 to a narrow wing into close ascending subacute entire lobes \ in. br. ; lobes of 

 lower side beginning lower down and more falcate than those of the upper ; 

 lowest lobes of upper pinnae produced, of lowest slightly reduced ; texture firm, 



