POLyPODlUM. 



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10. P. (Pheg.) IcBvigatum, Baker; st. and rachis purplish, naked, shining; 

 /)■. lanceolate, bipinnalifid, \\ ft. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnce numerous, lax, opposite, 

 patent, 1^-2 in. 1., 6-8 lin. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close blunt 

 lobes, lower pinnae much reduced, distant ; basal lobes scarcely reduced ; texture 

 chartaceous ; surfaces glabrous, light-green ; veins 6-6-jugate ; sori suboblong. — 

 Phegopteris, Mett, Kuhn, Linn. 36.^. 112. 



Hab. Peiu, ZecJiler, 2628. 



So*. P. (Pheg.) hirsutum, Sw. ; st. tufted, 3-4 in., clothed like rachis with 

 dense spreading linear-subulate scales ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., oblong-lanceolate, tripin- 

 natifid ; pinnoe subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 15-20-jugate, ^-f in. br., lowest not 

 reduced ; pinnl. close, lanceolate, sessile, inciso-pinnatifid with blunt lobes ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces, especially the lower, with fibrillose scales ; veins 

 simple or forked in the tertiary lobes; sori medial. — Baker, Fil. Bras. p. 503. 



t, G4:.flff. 1. 



Hab. Minas Geraes, Brazil, 



SG*. P. (Pheg.) tarapotense, Baker ; st. 1 ft. or inore, stout, brown, clothed 

 ■with large brown lanceolate scales, with a sudden grey edge ; fr. 2-2^ ft. 1., 

 1 ft. br., oblong-deltoid, tripinnatifid ; pinncB lanceolate, lowest largest, short- 

 stalked, IJ in. br., cut down to rachis into adnate lanceolate entire or crenate 

 bluntish pinnl. 3-4 lin. br. ; texture moderately firm ; swrfaces dark-green, 

 rather pilose on ribs ; veins pinnate in lower tertiary segments ; sori mostly 

 1-serial, midway between midrib and edge of pinnules. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruse, 4656, 



50*. P, (Pheg.) joaZcaceiiOT, Powell ; st. 1-3 ft., grey, clothed like rachis with 

 small adpressed linear scales, those near the base large, more spreading ; 

 fr. deltoid, 1^-2 ft. each way, 4-pinnatifid ; lower •pinnae much largest, deltoid, 

 long-stalked, unequal-sided, central lanceolate, with close lanceolate sessile or 

 short-stalked pinnl, 1-1 J in. br., cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final 

 lohes lanceolate, ascending, bluntish, 1-1^ lin. br. ; texture moderately firm ; 

 surfaces green, glabrous, the ribs below slightly scaly ; veins pinnate in final 

 lobes ; swi copious, medial. 



Hab, Samoa, Mo). T. Powell, 161. — Besembling Nephrodium, amplum in general habit, 



56*. P. (Cyrt.) hiforme. Baker ; st. 1^ ft., stramineous,- sparsely scaly like 

 rachis ; basal scales f in. 1., lanceolate, ferruginous ; fr. 2 ft. 1., oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, simply pinnate ; pinnce many, spreading, lignlate-acuminate, bluntly 

 lobed, sterile 6-7 in. 1., 1 in. br., fertile smaller, ^-f in. br., lowest stalked, 

 base on upper side truncate, on lower subcordate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 light-green, glabrous except ribs above ; veins in pinnated groups with 4-6-jugate 

 veinlets, lower not reaching edge, free or joining as in Goniopteris ; sori near 

 main veins. — Phegopteris biformis, Melt, Kuhn, Fil. Afr, p, 121. 



Hab. Madagascar, Bourbon, and Mayotte, 



68*. P. (Goniop.) Hillii, Baker ; st, 6-9 in., grey, densely pilose like rachis ; 

 fr, subdeltoid, 1 ft. each way, simply pinnate ; pinnce 4-jugate, opposite, sessile, 

 ligulate-oblong, 5-6 in. 1., 2 in. br., deeply crenate, cuneately narrowed on both 

 sides at the base ; texture thick, not at all rigid ; surfaces dull-green, densely 

 softly grey-pubescent ; main veins erecto-patent, 2 lines apart ; veinlets 10-12- 

 jugate ; sori close to main veins. 



Hab. Queensland, HiU. 



75*. P. (Goniop.) exoelsum, Baker ; arborescent, the trunk sometimes 30 feet 



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