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Specimens gathered on Mt. Gede {Tjibodas, Hallier No. 133) have 

 the fronds thik-coriaceous, copiously provided on both sides with very 

 short, dark hairs similar to those of the stipes, the veins are simple, or 

 forked with 2 subequal branchlets, only visible when the fronds are boiled; 

 the sori are crowded, confluent, not villous, but the sporangia are rather 

 copiously setulose. 



We have in the Buitenzorg Herbarium a plant from Ceylon (G. Wall 

 No. 30) received as P. hirtellum. It is the plant meant by Beddome as P. 

 lasiosorum in Ferns Br. I., II, tab. CLXXII and as P. hirtellum I.e. tab. CCXII, 

 but it is, however, neither the former nor the latter. The specimen in hand 

 is very small, copiously ciliated and hairy, the fronds are to 3 cm. long 

 by 5 mm. broad, on stalks to 5 mm. long, the hairs are rufous, partly very long, 

 partly very short, those of the upper surface rather few, of the under surface 

 copious, those of the margin placed in tufts of 2 or more, the texture is firm 

 but rather pellucid, the veins are invariably simple, bearing the sori at the 

 base but not on abbreviated venules, the sporangia are apparently not 

 setose but intermixed with hairs. — it is also not P. Reinwardtii Pr. and 

 I propose to call it: 



Polypodium Beddomeanum, v. A. v. R. ; P. lasiosorum Bedd. (not Hk.). 

 Ferns Br. I., 11, tab. CLXXII; P. hirtellum, Bedd. (not Bl), I.e., tab. CCXII. 



Polypodium hirtellum, Bl., Enum. PI. Jav., W, 122; Grammitis pusilla, 

 Bl., Flor. Jav., II. 109, tab. XLVI, fig. 4. 



All our specimens are from Java; they have the fronds firm, more or 

 less coriaceous, somewhat pellucid, provided partly with few, partly with 

 copious long, reddish hairs, as are the stipes, the veins visible when seen 

 towards the light, the lower often simple, the higher and central commonly 

 once forked, or even twice forked to sparingly pinnate, with the branchlets 

 varying from equal to very unequal in length, the sori not crowded, the 

 sporangia partly setose or setulose. 



Regarding Beddome's tab. CCXII in Ferns Br. I., II, see my information 

 under P. lasiosorum Hk. 



Blume's var. alpestris is unknown to me. ' 



A. plant recently gathered in Sumatra {Bengkoelen, Lebong Simpang, 

 C.J. Brooks No. 302/S) differs in having the fronds nearly naked. (Forma 

 subcalva). 



Polypodium cervicorne, v.A.v.R. 



Eupolypodium, Furcata. — P. subdichotomo Rae. affine sed frondibus 

 minoribus, usque ad i 7'/2 cm. longis, cum stipite brevissime puberulis, 

 segmentis usque ad 2 mm. latis, soris oblongis, sat remotis, non confluentibus, 

 capsulis saepe breviter setulosis. 



