Si 



POLYPODIES, 

 NIPHOBOLUS. (See "Ferns of Southern India," p. 61.) 



N IPHOBOLUS ACROSTICHOIDES. (Sw.) Caudex creeping, branched younger portions squarrose with rather large bright 

 ferruginous lanceolato-subulate scales, stipites 1-3 inches long, frond hard- coriaceous 1-3 feet and more long, J-l inch wide glabrous 

 above, beneath whitish or tawny, stellato-tomentose (tomentum very deciduous) elonga to-lanceolate or linear obtuse ; Stcrtlt fronds gene- 

 rally the broadest, "areoles with 3-6 veinlets free and simple^ or variously forked, and anastomosing ;" sori rather small, prominent very 

 compact generally occupying the upper part of the frond arranged in 6-8 oblique, very close series between the costules. Hook Sp. Fil. 

 v. 44. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 29. and 225. An. Font. Prodr. 434. ? Metten. Polyp, p. 128. Br. Prodr. p. 146 ;— Cyclophorus, Pr. Niphobolus 

 puberulus, Bl. Fil. Jav.p. 56. t 23 ; — Cyclophorus giaber, Desv. (not P. Samarense, Metten. Polyp, p. 123.) ; — Gyrosorium ; ..Pn Polyp- 

 furfuraceum ; Wall. Cat. n. 278, 



The specimen figured is from the Calcutta Herbarium (from Java,) 



Hab. Moulmein, Ceylon, Java, Isle Samar, Molucca Islands, and New Hebrides— N.E. Coast of New Holland, Penang. 



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