Polypodium.'] 
filices. 
503 
Stipes tufted, straw-coloured, naked, a foot or more long. Frond 
oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid, membranous, glabrous, 1-2 feet long, 
reaching a foot or more broad ; rachis straw-coloured, naked. Pinnae 
lanceolate, sessile, 1\ in. broad, cut down to a broad wing, into lanceo- 
late entire falcate segments in. broad ; lowest pair dwarfed, 
deflexed and produced on the lower side. Veins pinnate in the secon- 
dary segments, with very numerous ascending forked veinlets, which 
casually anastomose. Sori small, medial. P. Sieberianum, Kaulf. ; 
Bojer , Sort. Maur. 418. Phegopteris cyatheaefolia, Mett. ; Kuhn , Fil. 
Afric. 122. 
Mauritius, in the woods of Pamplemousses and Poudre d’Or. Endemic. 
3. P. cruciatum, Baker. Rootstock and basal scales not seen. 
Stipes glossy, naked, straw-coloured, slightly pilose. Frond ample, 
deltoid, tripinnatifid, membranous, with a few long hairs on the ribs of the 
under surface ; rachises pale, naked. Lower pinnae oblong-lanceolate, a 
foot long ; pinnules lanceolate, sessile, cut down to a narrow wing into 
oblong obtuse entire or toothed segments. Veins pinnate in the 
tertiary segments, with many simple or forked veinlets. Sori small, 
medial. P. Bojeri, Sook . and Baker , Syn. Fil. 311. P. ammifolium, 
Bojer , Sort. Maur. 420. P. sessilifolium, Sook. Sp. Fil. iv. 251. 
Phegopteris cruciata, Mett.; Kuhn , Fil. Afric. 122. 
Mauritius, in the dense woods of the Pouce range, etc. Also Bourbon. 
4. P. proliferum, Presl ; Sook. and Baker , Syn. Fil. 315. Root- 
stock erect ; scales small, dull brown, lanceolate. Stipes ft. long, 
naked, straw-coloured. Frond oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate, 
moderately firm in texture, subglabrous, 1-3 feet long, 6-12 in. broad ; 
rachis naked, often irregularly proliferous. Pinnae sessile, lanceolate, 
with many shallow obtuse lobes. Veins in a pinnate group opposite 
each lobe, with 8-12 pairs of simple veinlets, most of which anastomose 
at the tip. Sori small, those of the upper veins medial, of the lower 
apical. Phegopteris luxurians, Mett. 
Mauritius, at Baie du Cap, C. E. Eigginson ! Also Natal, Zambesi- land and 
Tropical Asia. 
5. P. tomentosum, Bory ; Hook, and Baker , Syn. Fil. ed. ii. 315. 
Rootstock and stipes not seen. Frond oblong-lanceolate, simply 
pinnate, about a foot long, 6-7 in. broad, membranous, finely pu- 
bescent all over ; rachis densely clothed with brown subulate scales. 
Pinnae lanceolate, acute, J-f in. broad, entire or shallowly lobed, the 
lower ones stalked. Veins in transverse pinnate groups, with few 
distant pairs of fine obscure veinlets. Sori small, medial. P. artho- 
thrix, Sook. Sp. Fil. v. 14. Phegopteris tomentosa, Mett. ; Kuhn , Fil . 
Afric. 123. 
Mauritius, gathered by Belanger, according to Kuhn, but I have seen only 
Madagascar specimens. 
