504 POLYPODIUM, 



206*. N. (Sagen.) niffrescms, Baker ; st. 1-2 ft., grey or slightly castaneous, 

 like racliises ; fr. l|-2 ft. each way, deltoid, tripinnatifid ; lovrer pinnce stalked, 

 deltoid, unequal-sided, ^-f ft. br., with lanceolate pinnl., the lowest deeply pin- 

 natifid ; texture membranous ; surfaces subglabrous, dark-green ; areolcB copious, 

 with free included veinlets ; sori compital, moderately large, irregularly 1-3-serial 

 between midrib and edge of final lobes, distant from midrib. — Aspidium, Mett, 

 Kuhn,FU.Afr.p.l31. 



Hab. Upper Guinea, Barter, Mann. — Cutting of dmiarium, with different veining 

 and more irregular sori. 



211*. N. (Sagen.) heterosorum, Baker; St. and racMses naked, brown-stra- 



areolce very minute, with copious free included veinlets; sori scattered, very 

 copious, often confluent.— Sagenia heterocarpa, Bedd, F. B. I, t. 47. 



Hab. Chittagong, ETc. fit. & Thomson^ 



211*. N. (Sagen.) Simonsii, Baker ; St. l|-2 ft., naked, ebeneous, like rachises; 

 fr. deltoid, bipinnatifid, I-I5 ft. 1. and br. ; pinnw bijugate below the pinnatifid 

 apex, lanceolate, 14-2in.br., lowest stalked, with a pair of large lanceolatejoiwj^. 

 at the base ; texture membranous ; surfaces bright-green, glabrous ; main veins 

 ^-^ in. apart ; areolae fine, with copious free veinlets ; sori minute, irregularly 

 S-4-serial between main ribs ; inv. minute, fugacious. 



Hab. East Himalayas, Griffith, Simons, 



216*. N. (Sagen.) eonfluens, F. Muell. ; st. naked, castaneous ; fr. deltoid, 

 1-1^ ft. each way, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, with 

 large lanceolate ^mmZ., the lowest deeply lobed ; rachises pubescent, castaneous; 

 texture moderately firm ; surfaces bright-green, densely pubescent on the ribs ; 

 areola fine, distant, with copious free included veinlets ; sori large, uniserial 

 near the main veins ; inv. minute, fugacious. — Aspidium, Mett. Kuhn, Linn, 36. 

 p, 125. 



Hab. Queensland ; communicated by Dr. Mueller. 



216*. N. (Sagen.) Barclayi, Baker ; st. and racMses ebeneous, nearly naked ; 

 fr. deltoid, \\ ft. each way, bipinnatifid ; pinnce 4-jugate below the pinnatifid 

 apex, the central simple, l-l^^ in. br., the lowest stalked and cut down to the 

 rachis below into lanceolate pinnl. ; texture membranous ; surfaces dark -green, 

 naked except ribs below ; main ribs 3-4 lines apart ; areolae rarely appendiculate ; 

 sori small, compital, distinctly biserial. — Lastrea Barclayi, Garruth, Fl, Vit, 

 p. 359. 



Hab. New Ireland, Zaiillardiere, Barclay. 



XLVIII.— POLYPODIUM. Page 304—369. 



1*. P. (Pheg.) Maximowicdi, Baker ; st. 2-3 in., tufted, naked, castaneous ; 

 fr. lanceolate, simply pinnate, 9-15 in. 1., 1 in. br. at middle, narrowed to both 

 ends, often rooting at the tip ; pinnce sessile, lanceolate, subacute, inciso-crenate, 

 1^-2 lin. br., auricled on the upper, cuneate-truncate on the lower side at the 

 base, many lower reduced and deflexed ; rachis stramineous, naked ; texture 

 thin but firm ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; veins simple, erecto-patent, forked 

 in the auricle, one to each lobe, with a minute terminal sorus. 



Hab. Nagasaki, Japan, Maximowici, 176. 



