506 POLYPODIUM. 



high ; fr. oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid ; pirmoe ligulate-acuminate, 12-15 in. 1., 

 |-^ in. br., cut down to a broad wing into close bluntish subfalcate lobes 

 2 lin, br. ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; midribs Btramineous ; veinlets distinct, 

 raised, 16-18-jugate, like the edge obscurely ciliated ; veins minute, snpramedial 

 on all the veins.— Aspidium glanduliferum, Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Nov. Heb. p. 9. ? 



Hab. Tanna and Aneiteum, 0. Moore, 45. 



76*. P. (Goniopt.) muricatim, Powell ; st. 2-4 ft., like rachis grey _ glabrous ; 

 fr, oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid, 2-4 ft 1. ; pinnce sessile, ligulate-acuminate, with 

 a prickle-like gland at the base, 6-10 in. I., f in. br., cut halfway down into 

 falcate bluntish lobes 2 lin. br. ; lowest pinnl. largest ; texture rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veinlets distinct, simple, 14-16-jugate; 

 sori small, close, submarginal, confined to the lobes. — Goniopteris glandulifera. 

 Brack. Fil. Wilkes Exped. p. 29. 



Hab. Samoa, Bracken/ridge, Powell, 160. — Stipe furnislied with fleshy white glands, 

 ■which become when old hard and subspinose. 



80*.. P. (Goniopt.) o%opA&MM»i, Baker; s«. 1-1 J ft., brownish, slender, with 

 a few broad blunt large scales ; fr. deltoid, 1^ ft. 1., simply pinnate ; pinnce 

 6-6-jugate below pinnatifid apex, lanceolate-acuminate, shallowly bluntly lobed, 

 6-6 in. 1., 2 in. br., all except lowest more or less adnate to rachis ; texture papy- 

 raceous ; surfaces green, naked ; main veins erecto-patent, i in. apart ; veinlets 

 6-6-jugate ; sori medial. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruce, 4653. 



87*. P. (Dicty.) polycarpum. Bakery st. \ ft., rubi-o-stramineous, slightly 

 pilose upwards ; fr. deltoid, bipinnatifid, \-\\ ft. 1. ; pinnae 6-jugate, lowest 

 largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, stalked, tripartite, central ligulate-acuminate 

 crenate ; texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; main veins distinct to edge ; 

 areolce with free included veinlets ; soi-i copiously scattered, terminal or com- 

 pital. — Phegopteris polycarpa, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. ZQ.p. 124. 



Hab. Malacca, Fedor Jagor, 222. 



89*. P. (Dicty.) Tatei, Baker ; st. \ ft. or more, naked castaneous ; fr. 

 deltoid, acuminate, 2-3 ft. 1., 15-18in.br., pinnate in the lower half, withrepand 

 ligulate-acuminate 3-6-jugate pinnce 6-12 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., the lowest free, 

 short-stalked, the upper half lanceolate pinnatifid, the point 6-9 in. 1., with only 

 short blunt lobes ; texture firm membranous ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; 

 main veins fine, erecto-patent, distinct nearly to edge ; areolce copious, minute, 

 with copious simple or branched included veinlets ; sori few, scattered irregu- 

 larly, mostly near or at the edge, moderately large, sometimes confluent. 



Hab. ChontaleB, Nicaragua, Ralph Tate. 



90*. P. (Dicty.) heterosorum, Baker ; st. short, brown, with spreading linear 

 scales ; fr. oblong-spathulate, 2-3 ft. 1., simply pinnatifid, the lowest foot only 

 a narrow wing to the rachis, above this 3-4 pairs of distant oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate pinnce 1^-2 in. br. at middle, confluent in a narrow wing, the lowest 

 simpk or bipartite ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; ribs naked, 

 brownish ; main veins distinct to edge, 3-4 lines apart, with distinct arches 

 between them, and copious small areolse with free included veinlets ; sori very 

 abundant, small, irregular, often confluent. 



Hab. Malacca, Griffith. — 'B.ahii oi Nephrodium vastvm. 



96*. P, trachycajrpum, Mett. ; fr. csespitose, sessile, oblanceolate-spathulate, 

 entire, 3 in. 1., under \ in. br. ; basal scales reddish, membranous, oblong-Ian- 



