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entire, below gradually becoming shorter and broader and forming shallow elongated lobed wings at the base, costa glabrous or i)ilosulons, 
costule and veins quite sunk and inconspicuous, sori oblong, 5-8-10 in two rows parallel with the costa and between the costa and the 
margin partially sunk in a hairy cavity (but with no raised border) at length confluent. Rook. Sp. Fil. iv, 179. — Brack. Fil. U. St. 
E.rpl. Exp., p. 7. t. 2. /. 2. (excellent.)—?, nutans, J.Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii, p. 394, and Metten., Polyp., p. 41, (excl. sijn. BL 
Fil. Jav.,p. 182. t. 86. J.";— P. Serra, Wall. Cat. 313/2. 
Ceylon. I have lately detected this species on the mountains near Courtallum (Tinnevelly.) 
PLATE No. CCXXXVIII. A. 
5. Fohjpodiiun glandulosum. (Hook.) Caudcx small, indistinct, clinging to the bark of trees by copious rooting fibres, the rest 
of the plant all over piloso-glandulose most so beneath, stipites tufted 1-3 lines long, fronds 2-4 inches long, j inch broad, linear obtuse, 
scarcely attenuated at either extremity, rather firm-membranaceous, sub-succulent, deeply nearly to the rachis pinnatihd, segments ovate, 
sub-acute, horizontally patent, decurrent at the base, lowermost ones free, all of them serrato-piunatilid, costule, and rather distant, few and 
oblique simple veins indistinct, sori fcAv globose. Hook Sp. Fil. iv, 193. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 1289.) 
PLATE No. CCXXXVIIL B. 
GoNioPTEEis. (See page 57). 
1. Goniopteris iiro})h!jlla. (\N-a\\.) Caudex? .stipes 2 and more feet long, sometimes very stout, testaceous brown, paleaceous at 
the base with rather large dark-brown subulate scales, fronds ample firm but not thick, coriaceous rarely membranaceous, glabrous or pilosu- 
lous above, and more or less densely pubescent, and sometimes subscabrous or minutely glandulose beneath, 2-3 and more feet long, sub- 
ovate pinnated, pinn^ distant, petioled beloAv, 8 inches to li foot long, to 2^ inches wide from a more or less obtusely and unequally 
cuneated base, elliptical-oblong finely caudato-acuminate, quite entire or sub-sinuated, more or less grossly obtusely or rarely acutely serrated 
upwards, terminal pinnse most so, often larger than the rest and long-petioled, veinlets numerous, 15-20 pairs all connivent, save the 
few in the teeth or serratures, soriferous in the middle, the sori consequently forming 2 series each between the costules, and the spurious 
costule, or orbicular or 2-lobed sori are borne at the point of junction of the 2 veinlets, and are then uniserial. Hook, Sp. Fil. v, 9.— 
Wall. Cat. n. 299 (excl. n. 3.^— Goniopteris, Phegopteris, Metten, Phegopt.—ViA. asperum, Pr. lieliq. Hcenk., p. 24. t. 3. /.' 4.— 
Goniopteris, P?-.— Meniscium cuspidatum, Bl. Fil., Jav. p. 102. t. 45, (excellent, hut sori too long and wa^vozf . j— Phegopteris, Metten, 
Phegopt, p. 25.— Nephrodium glandulosum, J. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. iii, jy. 411 (according to tlie reference to Cuming, n. \Qnot 
of 5?w»ie.J— Aspidium repandum, BL Fil. Jav., p. 144 in Herb. Hook. ( not Willd.)—0. uniseriale ; sori uniserial, P. granulosum, Bentk. 
Fl. Hongkong, p. 499, (according to the specific character of the locality of Col. Urquhart,) not of Pm^.—Nephrod. glandulosum, 
J. Sm. in Seem Bot. Herald, p. 428 ? 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3063.) 
PLATE No. CCXXXIX. 
2. Goniopteris lineata. (Coleb.) Caudex ? stipes Ih feet and more long, rather stout, scaleless, glos.sy, and as well as the rachis 
reddish (rarely stramineous), fronds 1-3 feet long, broad-oblong or lanceolate, coriaceo-membranaceous, pinnated glabrous, pinme numerous 
rather distant, patent sessile 5-8 inches long, about ^ an inch broad, (on sterile fronds .sometimes exceeding 1 inch) from an obliquely cune- 
ato-truncate sessile base, (lower ones rather more attenuated and sub-petiolate), lanceolate or elongato-oblong finely acuminated at the apex, 
the margin coarsely and sharply sub-mucronato serrated, serratures pointing a little forward, uniform, costa prominent beneath of the 
same color as the rachis, and stipes generally reddish, veinlets about 6-8 pairs, of which all are connivent except 2-3 short pairs in the 
teeth of the serratures, sori in 2 series on the middle of the veinlets. Hook. Sp. Fil. v, 12. — Polypodium lineatum, Coleb. in Herb. Wall 
and Wcdl. Cat n. 200.— Hook. I. c— Polyp, costatum. Wall. Herb, (not Goniopteris costata, Brack). 
Ceylon. 
I have tiot been able to obtain a specimen of this species, as it has not been found by Mr. Thwaites. 
