AN ENUMERATION OF CULTIVATED FERNS. 2S5 



62. DICTYOPTERIS. 



2. D. macrodonta, Presl, Tetn. Pterid.-, J. 8m. Oen. Ml. 



PMlipp. ; SooJc. Jov/m. Bot. 3, p. 396. Polypodium 

 maorodon, Bieim/w. in Serb. J. Sm. Aspidium difforme, 

 Blwme, accord, to Bemw. m Serb. J. 8m. Polypo- 

 dium conflaens, Wall. — East Indies, Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, Fiji. 



Obs. — In Herbariums and books there is great confusion 

 in the synonymy of what, according to Garden plants, seem 

 to be two distinct species ; — viz., Bielyopteris i/rregula/ris and 

 D. maorodon of Presl ; judging from Herbarium specimens, they 

 are difficult to be recognized as distinct ; but living plants show 

 the first to have erect vernation, the other decumbent. 



The Kew Collection is indebted for this species, as also the 

 bealitiful Miarolepia platyphylla, and others, to Mr. Bobert 

 Kennedy, Florist and Fern-dealer in Covent Garden. 



3. D. Cameroonianis, J. Sm. Polypodium (Dictyopteris) 



Camerooniauum, Hook. Sp.Fil. 5, p. 104. Dictyopteris 

 varians, Moore, im Ga/rd. Chfon. (1864). — Tropical 

 West Africa. 



Obs. — A plant of this Fern was sent some time ago from Old 

 Calabar to the Eoyar Botanic Gardenij^;^nburgh, and I am 

 indebted for a specimen of it to Mr. James McNab, the 

 Curator of that truly scientific garden. 



63. MENISCIUM. 



3*. M. angustifolium, Willd. ; Eooh. Sp. Fil. 6, p. 164.— 

 Tropical America. 



65. NEPHRODIUM. 



4*. H". oyatheoides, Kaulf. ,• Sooh. 8p. Fil. 4, t. 241. Poly- 

 stichum Dubreuillianum, Gaud, m Freyc. Voy. Bot. 

 Crypt, t. 9. — Sandwich Islands. 



Obs. — It is but right to observe that this remarkable species, 

 as also the Sandwich Island Ferns in this addenda, with the 

 pieviously entered Phegopteria mddentata, and the remarkable 



