NEPIIKODIUM. 503 



coriaceous ; surfaces glabrous, or ribs minutely ciliated ; wins raised, distinct, 

 14-16-jugate ; sori minute, medial ; inv. glabrous, persistent. — Aspidium, Bojer ; 

 N. albolineatmn, Boivin, 



Hab. Bourbon. 



173*- N. punctatum, Parish ; rhizome creeping ; st. 1-2 ft., stramineous, gla- 

 brous ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; racMs square, glabrous ; 

 pinncE sessile, ligulate-acuminate, central 12-16 in. 1., f-J in. br., cut down to a 

 broad wing into lanceolate-falcate subacute I0besl5-2iin.br.; texture cha/rta.- 

 ceous ; surfaces naked except ribs above ; veins 9-10-jugate, very distinct j sori 

 marginal, immersed. — Beddome, F. B. 1. 1. 131. 



Hab. Moulmein, Re». C. S. Parisli. 



177*. N. masearanense, Baker ; st. 6-8 in., grey, naked ; fr. oblong-deltoid» 

 8-9 in. 1., simply pinnate ; pinnae subsessile, 6-7-jugate, patent, ligulate-caudate, 

 lowest not reduced, 2J-3 in. 1., f-J in. br., crenate, with shallow blunt lobes 

 2 lin. br., lowest quarter rather narrowed ; tenure thin but firm ; surfaces 

 naked, dull-green ; rachis grey-stramineous, faintly pubescent ; veins in pinnate 

 6-6-jugate groups, upper only free ; sori subcostular ; inv. glabrous, fugacious. — 

 Polypodium, edit. \. p. 456. 



Hab. Madagascar, Mrs. Higginson ; communicated by Lady Barkly. 



183. N. moulmaynense, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 220 (Goniopteris lineata, Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 3), is probably a form of Polypodium (Goniopteris) urophyllum, showing a 

 minute involucre in the young state, and N. costatum, F. B. 1. 1. 220, a similar 

 form of our Polypodium lineatum. 



187*. N. suhcuneatum, Baker ; rhizome short- creeping ; st. 4-8 in., grey, slightly 

 downy upwards ; fr. lanceolate-deltoid, 6-8 in. 1., bipinnatifid ; lower pinnos 

 short-stalked, cut ^-5 down into close blunt lobes 2 lin. br., central lanceolate, Ig- 

 2 in. 1., J-^ in. br., lowest not reduced, but much narrowed above base ; rachis 

 grey-downy ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces dull-green, rather pilose on the ribs ; 

 veins 6-7-jugate, only lowest pair joined; sori medial, minute; j»». glabrous, 

 fugacious. — Fl. Bras.fasc. 49. p. 487. 



Hab. Cayenne, Leprieu/r, — General habit like Polypodivm tetragonum, 



194*. N. guadalupense. Fee ; st. tufted, grey-stramineous, naked, 1 ft. ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; lower pinnce short-stalked, gradually 

 reduced at base, 8-9 in. 1., j-J in. br., cut more than halfway down into close 

 blunt lobes 2-2| lin. br. ; upper pinnae sessile, equal at base ; texture thin, firm ; 

 surfaces dull-green, slightly downy on ribs ; veins 12-16-jugate ; sori minute, 

 medial.— /"zX Ant. p. 89. t. 24, fig. 3. 



Hab. Gruadaloupe, L'Eermirder. — Texture and cutting of alruptwrn, but veins muoh 

 closer. 



199*. N. (Pleoc.) gigamteum. Baker ; st. tufted, \-\\ ft., gi-ey, pubescent ; basal 

 scales linear, dark-brown ; fr. deltoid, 2-3 ft. 1., tripinnate or 4-pinnatifid, mode- 

 rately firm, finely pubescent or subglabrous ; Xavi^x pinnm much largest, deltoid, 

 unequal-sided, stalked, with lower tertiary segm. lanceolate, pinnatifid ; upper 

 pinnce lanceolate, with broad blunt lobes, with the veins forming costular arches 

 at their base ; sori in single rows near the main veins, some compital, some at 

 the end of free veinlets. — N. giganteum, edit. 1. ex parte. Bedd. F. S. 1. t. 80. 



Hab. Ceylon, Malay Isles, Philippines. — Texture and habit of dciitarium, but veining 

 very different. 



