AN ENUMERATION OP CULTIVATED FERNS. 297 
28a. AGLAOMOKPHIA* Schott. 
Rhizome short, thick. Fronds sessile, of two forms, the 
sterile rigid, querciform; fertile fronds 2-4 feet in length, pin- 
natifid and sterile below, pinnate and fertile above. Veins of 
sterile segments costaeform ; venules and veinlets compound, 
anastomosing, forming nearly equal quadrangular areoles, 
containing free veinlets. Fertile pinnae contracted, linear, 
sinuosely moniliform, 8-10 inches long. Receptacles com- 
pital, solitary on each lobule, forming a row of punctiform sori 
on each side of the midrib. 
Illust. Schott, Gen. Fil. t. 19 ; Hook. et Bauer, 
Gen. Fil. t. 91; Moore's Index Fil. pi. 63 B ; Presl, 
Tent. Pterid. t. 8, /. 21, 22 (Psygmium, Presl). 
1. A. Meyenianum, Schott, Gen. Fil. Polypodium Meyenia- 
num, Hook. Sp. Fil. 5, p. 94. — Philippine Islands. K. 
Obs. — This, as its name imports, is a splendid fern, having 
the habit of Drynaria, coronans, but differing in the upper 
pinnae being contracted and fertile. 
Aglac, splendid, morpha, form ; splendid form. 
