52i TODEA. 



springing from the outer border ; fertile fr. filiform, 6-8 in. L, long-stalked.— 

 Journ. Mot. 1872, p. 146. 



Hab. Ceylon, 0. Wall. 



117*. A. (Chrys.) rivulare, Baker ; rhisiome creeping ; sterile fr. lanceolate, 

 8-12 in. 1., proliferous at top, 4-6 in. br., pinnatii&d at middle, with blunt lobes, 

 pinnate at base, with lanceolate subacute subsessile jomrace 2-24 in. !•, \-\ in. br. ; 

 its St. 5-6 in. L, minutely scaly throughout ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 glabrous ; a/reolce copious, fine, exappendioulate ; fertile fr. smaller, longer- 

 stalked.— ^rac/fc. Fil. Wilkes Exp. p. 86. t. W.fig. 2. 



Hab. Viti, Brackewndge. 



118*. A. (Chrys.) varians, Mett. ; rhizome -^ in. thick, woody, wide-climbing ; 

 scales small, brown, membranous, lanceolate ; sterile fr. 1-1| ft. 1. and br., cut 

 down nearly to rachis into 1-6-jugate ligulate-oblong pinnce, central 6-9 in. L, 

 I5-2 in. br., terminal similar, lower reduced, its st. naked, 2-3 in. 1. ; texture 

 thin but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; areoliB multiserial, appendiculate ; barren fr. 

 smaller, with distant lomarioid pinnse and a narrow wing to rachis. — Ann. Sc. 

 Nai. ser. 4. vol. 16. p. 56. 



Hab. New Caledonia, TieUlard, 1525. 



123*. A. (Chrys.) serratum, Baker; rldnome woody, |in. thick, nearly naked, 

 wide-creeping ; larrenfr. rhomboid-deltoid, simply pinnate, 5-6 in. 1., 4-5 in. br. ; 

 pinnce 2-4-jugate, lanceolate, ascending, 3-4 in. 1., f in. br., acuminate, dis- 

 tinctly inciso-crenate, subsessile, narrowly cuneate at the base, its st. strami- 

 neous, naked, 6-6 in. 1. ; textwe thin but firm ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; 

 veins distinct, dichotomously forked, forming large exappendioulate costal arches ; 

 fertile fr. with smaller blunt entire pinnse and a longer stem. — Chrysodium 

 Kuhn, Linn. 86. p. 63. 



Hab. Tarapoto, East Peru, Spruce, 4123. — Very near A. Saddianum. 



128*. A. (Chrys.) euUratum, Baker ; climbs on trees with fronds 6 ft. 1. ; 

 barren pinnae ligulate, 6-8 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., cut down to the rachis or a narrow 

 wing into entire close blunt obovate lobes f -f in. br., cuneately narrowed to 

 a broad base, or rarely produced and oblong, often several of the lower or 

 sometimes the central lobes confluent ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces green, 

 naked ; areolas small, exappendioulate ; fertile pinnce and lobes like those of the 

 barren fr., but the latter distant, 2-2| lin. br. 



Hab. San Cristoval, Solomon Isles, E. Richards, in Ha-b. MacUay. 



128*. Kuhn, Bot. Zeit. 27. p. 437, founds on Acrostichum pteroides a new 

 genus, Neurosoria, but his plant is described as having the sori confined to the 

 nerves, and is therefore apparently not ours, which is truly acrostiohoid. 



LXIII.— TODEA. Page 427—8. 



2». T. (Lept.) Moorei, Baker ;fi: oblong-deltoid, 1^-2-ft. 1., 1 ft. br.,bipinna 

 tifid ; pinnce imbricated, lanceolate, sessile, the lower 1^-2 in. br. ; pinnl. close, 

 sessile, lanceolate, cut down nearly to the rachis into close erecto-patent blunt 

 ligulate lobes, toothed on outer edge ; surfaces naked ; texture thicker than in 

 the other species ; sori oblong, placed against costa near base of pinnules.— 

 Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 16. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 



