AH ENUMERATION OF CULTIVATED MENS. 297 



28a. AGLAOMOKPHIA* Schott. 



Rhizome short, thick. Fronds sessile, of two forms, the 

 sterile rigid, querciform ; fertile fronds 2-4 feet in length, pin- 

 natifid and sterile below, pinnate and fertile above. Veins of 

 sterile segments costseform ; venules and veinlets compound, 

 anastomosing, forming nearly equal quadrangular areoles, 

 containing free veinlets. Fertile pinnos contracted, linear, 

 sinuosely moniliform, 8-10 inches long. Receptacles com- 

 pital, solitary on each lobule, forming a row of punctiform sori 

 on each side of the midrib. 



Genoa 28.— Portion of iterUe and fertile frond, and poiiion of the litter mago'.flt d. 



Illnst. Schott, Gen. Fil. t. 19; Hook, et Bauer, 

 Gen. Fil. t. 91 ; Moore's Index Fil. pi. 63 B ; Presl, 

 Tent. Pterid. t. 8, /. 21, 22 (Psygmium, Presl). 



1. A. Meyenianum, Schott, Gen. Fil. Polypodium Meyenia- 

 num, Hoolc. 8p. Fil. 5, p. 94. — Philippine Islands. K. 



Obs. — This, as its name imports, is a splendid fern, bavins; 

 the habit of Drynaria coronans, but differing in the tipper 

 pinnaa being contracted and fertile. 



' A^lao, splendid, morpha, form ; splecdid forts. 



