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* * * * * * Frondes dissimilares. (Sori uniseriales costce paralleli, vel biseriales 



venis primariis paralleli.') 



22. Drynaria quercifolia, /. Sm. 



Drynaria quercifolia, J. Sm. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 61. 



Polypodium quercifolium, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 32; Willd. Spec. PL 5, p. 170; Kaulf. 



Enum. Fil. p. 97; Blame, Enum. Plant. Jav. fasc. 2, p. 135; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. 



Voy. p. 353. 



Hab. Mindanao, Philippine Islands : on trees. 



23. Drynaria diversifolia, J. Sm. 



D. rliizomate repmte; frondibus sterilibus cardato-ovatis acurninatis 

 lobato-sinuatis utrinque squamoso-hirsutis, fertilibus stipitatis glabris 

 pinnatis ; pinnis articulatis brevi-petiolulatis rigidis divaricatis lanceo- 

 lalo-linearibus acurninatis margine crenato undidatis basi obliquis 

 cuneatis; so?°is rotundis subimmersis uniserialibus. 



Drynaria diversifolia, J. Sm. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 61. 



Polypodium diver sifolium, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 147 ; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. 

 Voy. p. 355. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands ; on trees near the coast. 



Plant forming large patches, having a thick, short, creeping root- 

 stock, which is covered with slender brown fimbriated paleae. Fronds 

 numerous and crowded ; the sterile ones sessile, of a brown colour when 

 recent, squamose-hirsute on both sides, from 6 to 8 inches long and 3 

 to 4 lines broad near the base, cordate-ovate and acuminate; the 

 margin sinuately lobed; the lobes crenate : scales on the surface slender 

 and deeply laciniated. Fertile fronds pinnate to the very point, with 

 a firm, smooth, ash-gray rhachis and stipe, the latter about 6 inches 

 long, nearly round, with a shallow channel in front. Pinnae nume- 

 rous, nearly opposite, from 4 to 6 inches long and about 4 lines broad, 

 seated on a very short petiole, which is articulated with the rhachis, 



