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forked, the ultimate segments being linear and entire ; they are of a leathery 

 texture, dark brownish-green above, pale and tawny underneath. The sori 

 (spore masses) are disposed in a single row on each side of and very near 

 the mid vein. Fig. 49 is reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British 

 India," by the kind permission of the author. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., 

 p. 100. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 233. 



P. (Phymatodes) lomarioides — Phy-mat-o'-des ; lo-ma-n-o-i'-des 

 (Lomaria-like), Kunze. 

 This stove species, of medium dimensions, native of Malaysia, Formosa, and 

 the Philippines, is readily distinguished by its peculiar, thick, wide -spreading 

 rhizome, thickly clothed with small scales attached by their centre. Its fronds, 

 borne on firm, erect stalks 2in. to 4in. long, are 1ft. to IJft. long and 4in. to 

 6in. broad. The barren ones are cut down within Jin. of the rachis into 

 close, oblong, entire, blunt lobes ; the fertile ones are cut nearly to the rachis 

 throughout, with more numerous lobes, all of a leathery texture, and naked 

 on both sides. The round or oblong sori (spore masses) are completely 

 immersed, and are disposed in two close rows near the midrib. — Hooker, 

 Species Filicum, v., p. 79. 



P. (Phymatodes) longifolium — Phy-mat-o'-des ; long-if-oF-i-um (long- 

 fronded), Mettenius. 

 A stove species, native of Malaysia and the Philippines. From a short- 

 creeping, woody rhizome covered with nearly black scales, are produced entire 

 (undivided) fronds 1ft. to 2ft. long, Jin. to ljin. broad, sharp-pointed, often 

 revolute, the lower part very gradually narrowed into a short, firm stem. 

 They are of a leathery texture, with their under-surface naked or slightly 

 scaly. The oblong sori (spore masses) are quite immersed, and are placed 

 end to end a space from one another in a line close to the edge, the capsules 

 being mixed with minute, stalked scales. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 60 • 

 Second Century of Ferns, t. 87 ; Filices Exotica}, t. 20. Nicholson, Dictionary 

 of Gardening, hi., p. 190. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, ii., t. 41. 

 Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 7. 



P. (Phymatodes) longipes — Phy-mat-o'-des • long'-ip-es (long- stalked). 

 This is simply a garden form of P. Phymatodes. 



