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Hab. Oejlon ; and a closely-allied plant with smaller fronds, of thicker texture, and 

 the veins quite bidden, near Moulmein. 



285*. P. (Niph.) cuneatum, Kuhn; rhizome slender, wide-creeping; scales 

 membi-anous, reddish, lanceolate ; /r. dimorphous, sterile cuneate-spathulate or 

 round-obovate, -J-l in, 1., 3-4 lin. br., narrowed into a st, 1-5 lin. I., fertile larger, 

 oblanceolate obtuse, with a St. I-I5 in. 1. ; texture coriaceous ; upper side 

 glabrescent, lower matted with stellate tomentum ; sori oblong, biseriate between 

 midrib and edge, uniseriate between veins. — Bot, Zeit. 1868.^. 40. 



Hab. Ecuador. 



289. The tropical specimens have an oblanceolate more densely matted frond 

 than those of the Cape, and the scales of the rhizome narrower and firmer, and 

 are separated by Mett. and Kuhn, Fil Afr. p. 162. as a species under the name 

 of P. ScMmperianum. 



310*. P. (Phym.) marginatum. Baker ; rlmmne \ in. thick, firm, wide-creeping, 

 soon denuded ; scales small, brown, lanceolate ; st. 1-2 in., naked, stramineous ; 

 fr. linear-ligulate, simple, \-\\ ft. I., ^-f in. br., crispate-repand, narrowed 

 gradually to both ends ; textttre rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces bright-green, 

 naked; areoloe 3-4 serial between midrib and edge, exappendiculate ; sori oblong, 

 immersed, marginal, parallel with the edge, J-J in. apart. 



Hab. Isle of Pines, Mikie; New Caledonia, DeplancJiC, Pancher. 



330*. P. (Phym.) simpUcissimum, F. Mull. ; rhiiome wide-creeping, as thick 

 as a quill ; scales minute, lanceolate-acuminate, bright-brown ; st. 1-1 J in., 

 grey, naked ; fertile fr. lineai'-ligulate, 3-6 in. 1., 3-4 lin. br., obscurely crenate, 

 narrowed very gradually to both ends, sterile shorter and bi-oader; texture 

 rigidly coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; main veins distinct nearly to edge, l|-2 lin. 

 apart ; sori round, superficial, 1-serial between main veins and midrib and 

 edge, medial ; areolce 3-4-serial between midrib and edge. — P. lanceola, F, M. 

 Fragm, 7, p. 120. 



Hab. Queensland ; communicated by Baron von Mueller. 



332*. P. (Phym.) selUgueoides, Baker ; rhizome firm, glaucous, wide-creeping, 

 under 1 lin. thick ; scales minute, adpressed, brown, membranous, oblong, blunt ; 

 St. 2-4 in., naked, stramineous ; fr. lanceolate or oblanceolate, 6-6 in. 1., 10-14 

 lin. br., acuminate, narrowed gradually at the base ; texture rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; veins erecto-patent, distinct to the edge, 1^-2 lines 

 apart ; areoke copious, with free included veinlets ; sori uniserial between the 

 main veins, 1-3, round or oblong, aU distant from edge. 



Hab. New Caledonia, D^lcmclie, Pancher, Bicliards. 



338*. P. (Phym.) exswl, Mett.; rfeome wide-creeping, as thick as a quill; 

 scales broad, reddish ; fr. lanceolate, simple, subentiro, 8-9 in. 1., 2 in. br., 

 narrowed to both ends ; texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; areolce 6-7- 

 seriate between edge and midrib, appendiculate ; sori round, superficial, 2-3-, 

 rarely 4-6-seriate between main veins, 6-7-seriate between edge and midrib. — 

 Kuhn,Linn.SQ.p.lZQ. 



Hab. Soutti Brazil, Sellow. 



366*. PUopeltis Stewartii, Beddome, F. B. 1. 1. 204, from Temperate Sikkim, 

 difi^ers from typical malacodon by its firmer black rhizome-scales and rachis 

 furnished with a few loose spreading scales at the base of the more elongated and 

 tapering lamina. 



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