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rounded ; veins pinnate in the lobes, the branches curved not reaching 

 the margin, the opposite basal ones casually uniting ; sori copious, 

 nearly medial on each side of the flexuose primary veins, costal ones 

 usually oblong and dorsal or terminal on the veinlets, those above 

 these rounded and situated on a lateral spur. — Plum. Fil. t. 138. 

 Hook and Grev. Icon. Fil. t. 54. P. scolopendrioides, Hook and 

 Grev. 



Infrequent on trees and rocks at 2,000-3,000 ft. alt. in the forests 

 of Portland. The casual iy uniting veins might remove this to the 

 other primary division, and the subentire state that some of the fronds 

 are fund in the first section of this, but it has obviously most rela- 

 tionship here, distinct and isolated though the type is from any of its 

 allies. Confusion must be guarded against from the genus Enter o- 

 sora which is exactly of the same size and form. Plumier's figure is a 

 very good one but all the fronds are made trif urcate at the top. 



31. P. Eijgersii, Baker. — Root^tock short, rather slender, repent or 

 erect ; stipites tufted or subtufted, wiry, dark brown, erect, thickly 

 clothed with spreading hairs ; fronds 3-7 in. 1. f rd-1 in. w thin and 

 elastic, pellucid, thinly ciliate, especially on the racbis and edges, and 

 bright metallic green ; terminated or not by a distinct segment, some- 

 what reduced at the base, pinnatifid throughout almost to the black 

 thread-like rachis, which is not immersed ; segments close, obliquely 

 adnate, oblong rather rounded at the point, even-margined, 5-6 li. 1. 

 1^-2 li. w., with a sharp sinus between ; veins few, simple or forked ; 

 sori nearer the midrib than margins on a short spur. — Hook. Icon. t. 

 1671. 



Pare on trees in forest near Mt. Moses, 2,000-3,000 ft. alt , rpsem- 

 bling in habit and size most lasiolepis. It has the texture of suspen- 

 sion and cultratinn, but is rather firmer, and in form is intermediate 

 between the former and brunneo-viride, with the rather upright 

 growth of the latter and metallic tinge in colour. 



32. P. suspensum, Linn. — Rootstock creeping, elongated, densely 

 coated with bright, rather soft, ciliated small scales ; stipites 4-8 in. 1. 

 subtufted or apart, erecto-curving, slender, dark or blackish ; varying 

 from almost naked to pilose with soft rusty spreading hairs ; fronds 

 pendent, linear-lanceolate, £-l-| ft, 1. lj-lf in. w., flaccid, membrano- 

 papyraceous, both surfaces and specially the margins more or less 

 clothed with soft rusty spreading hairs, cut to the thread-like, black- 

 ish, often flexuose, rusty-ciliate rachis into close horizontal segments, 

 ■^-nearty 1 in. 1. 2-2^ li. w. which are obiong-lanceolate, and gradually 

 narrowed outwards to an acute or bluntish point, the broadly adnate, 

 equilateral, base sometimes dilated ; veins simple not reaching the en- 

 tire margin, sori dorsal, or terminal on a rudimentary lateral spur pro- 

 duced below the middle of the vein, the rows contiguous, nearer the 

 midvein than margins, — PI. Fil. t. 87. (dubious). 



Common on trees above 5,000 ft. alt in the eastern parishes and at 

 2,000 ft. in the woods of the western ; larger in the latter. The stipites 

 are erect but curved at the neck, so that the fronds, which are occasion- 

 ally narrowed there, one or two pairs of the segments being reduced, 

 hang pendent, over each other tapering by imperceptible graduation to 

 the outer end. 



