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NiPHOBOLUs. (See page 61.) 
1. NijMjolus Lingua. (Sw.) Ccaudex very long, creeping, rather slender, flexuose paleaceous with ferruginous subulate 
scales, stipites 3-6 inches and more long, remote, always arising from a short very paleaceous branch of the caudex, upper scales 
longest and spreading, fronds 4-8 inches long, lanceolate or ovate or oblong, obtuse or acuminated, densely and very compactly stellato, 
and sometimes sub-squamuloso tomentose at length glabrous above. Sori sub-elevated, copious in 4-6 close series between the primary or 
costular veins, and from 9-20 between the secondary veins. Uooh. Sp. Fil. v. 49.— Sw. Syn. FiL, p. 29.— WiUd. Sp. PL v., p. 162.— Langsd. 
et Fisch. Fil. i,p. 7,f. b.—Metten, Folyp.,}). 130.— Acrostichum, Th. Fl. Jap., p. 330, t. 33.— Schk. FiL, p. 1, L 1.— Niphobolus, Spr. Kze. 
Schk. FiL Su2wi; 1-14, t. 63. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 1294.) 
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2. Ni2^hoholus Gardneri. (Metten.) Caudex somewhat creeping, the younger portions densely fcrrugineo-paleaceous, stipites 
approximate arising from a scaly branch of the caudex, 2-4 inches long, fronds about a foot long, carnoso-coriaceous lanceolate, obtusely 
acuminate, gradually attenuated upon the stipes, densely clothed with a very compact firm sub-furfuraceous mass of whitish or ferrugin- 
ous stellated tomentum, costa and primary veins or costules slightly elevated beneath, venation of Gampyloneurum, :iecondary transverse 
veins more obscure, veinlets generally free and soriferous, sori superficial (not sunk) in about four series, parallel with the costules and 
10-12 transverse series between the costa and the margin. — Var. a suhferruginea, Hook. Sp. FiL v., 51. — Metten, Polypod., p. 129. — Nipho- 
bolus Gardneri, Kze. J. Sm. Cat. Cult. Fer/is, p. 12.— Hook. FiL Exot t. 68.— N. acrostichoides, J. Sm. Cat Kew. Card. Ferns, p. 2.— 
N. costatus, /. Sm. Cat. Kew. Ferns, p. 6 % — {not Polyp, acrostichoides, Forst.) 
Ceylon. (C. P. 988.) 
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'^OT-E.—rieopeltis Sp. (C. P. 1296) is referred by Sir W. Hooker, to Pnigrescens, (Plume.) I hctve a Specimen now before me, " 
and it is certainly the same as the plant figured in Plate No. CLXXVI of this work, specimens of ivhich are referred by Sir W, Hooker to 
P. longissima ( Blume.) Mettenius %inites the two s2Kcies of Blume, and if they are distinct, I expect that Sir W. Hooker has made a 
mistake in referring the South Indian and Ceylon specimens to different species, as mine is certainly the same as the Ceylon plant. 
ASPIDIEiE. 
Sagenia. (Vide page 27.) 
1. Sagenia subtriiyhylla. (Hook.) Caudex creeping, and as well as the base of the stipites moderately scaly, stipites a span to 
li foot or more long, generally brownish, fronds glabrous or pubescent, sub-coriaceo-membranaceous when young, entire or 3-lobed, cordate 
acuminate, in maturity 3-foliate or pinnated with 5-7 liinnai, terminal pinna large, sub-rhomboid, variously pinnatifid, lower lobes the 
longest, intermediate ones sessile or petiolate, oblong more or less acuminate, lowest pair distant, large semi-ovate more or less acuminate, 
and pinnatifid, lowest segments (especially at the inferior base) generally very much elongated, patent or defiexed, or not unfrequently 
(unless I am mistaken in the limits of species), the lowest pinnae are pinnate, and even sub-bi-pinnate, all costate, veins uniformly anas- 
tomosing with areoles, having free, simple or forked veinlets. Sori scattered, all compital (on back of the anastomosing veins), involucres 
cordiform. Hook Sp. Fil. iv, 52. — Polypodium subtriphyllum. Hook, and Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy., p. 256, t. 50. — Aspidium trifolia- 
tum, Hook, in Floral Hongkong. Kew. Card. Misc. ix, p. 341. — Benth. Fl. Hongkong, p. 450. — ( Excl. Syn. of A. variolosum. Wall.) Eat. 
in C. Wright Herb, of U. St Pacif ExpL Exp. (in Herb, ifooi.;- Drynaria latifolia. Brack. FiL U. St ExpL Exped., p. 50. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 1300.) 
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2. Sagenia gigantea. var, mijior. (Hook.) This species is very similar to the normal form of S. gigantea, described and 
figured in a former number of this work, vide page 27 and Plate LXXX, it is, however, a much smaller variety, the fronds are more deeply 
lobed and more delicate in texture, and it may perhaps be a distinct species. 
Ceylon, (C. P. 1358.) 
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