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FILICES. 
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6. P. Pervillei, Mett. ; Hook. and Baker , Syn. Fil. ed. ii. 321. 
Rootstock slender, creeping ; scales very minute, brown, lanceolate. 
Stipes distant, very short. Frond ligulate, entire, membranous, bright 
green, glabrous, 1-2 in. long, -p^-- J i n - broad, obtuse, narrowed 
gradually from the middle to the base. Veins simple, erecto-patent, 
not reaching the edge. Sori oblong, superficial, dorsal on the veins, 
forming a row close to the midrib on each side. Wright in Trans . Roy. 
Irish Acad. xxv. t. 31, A. 
Seychelles, on mossy rocks amongst the hills, Ferville ! Wright ! Horne , 195 ! 
Endemic. 
7. P. multifidum, Bory ; Hook, and Baker, Sp. Fil. 322. Root- 
stock slender, wide-creeping ; basal scales minute, brown, linear. 
Stipes tufted, naked, in. long. Frond ligulate, entire, coriaceous, 
bright green, glabrous, 1-2 in. long, in. broad, obtuse, cuneate at 
the base. Veins simple, erecto-patent, not reaching the edge. Sori 
round, or the lower ones oblong, superficial, when mature filling up the 
whole space between the edge and midrib. Pleopeltis angusta, Bojer, 
Hort. Maur. 389, non H.B.K. Grammitis obtusa, Willd.; Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 414. 
Mauritius, on mossy rocks of the Pouce range, etc. Also Bourbon. The plant 
was named by Bory upon a cristate monstrosity, but the frond is properly 
simple. 
8. P. barbatulum, Baker , in Hook, and Baker , Syn. Fil, 323. 
Rootstock short- creeping ; scales minute, linear, brown. Stipes con- 
tiguous, wiry, brown, ^-1 in. long, clothed with fine long spreading 
brown hairs. Frond linear, simple, l|-2 in. long, in. broad, shal- 
lowly obtusely lobed, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, thinly clothed 
on both sides with fine brown hairs. Veins 2-3-furcate opposite each 
lobe, not reaching the edge. Sori round, superficial, forming a single 
row midway between the midrib and edge. P. ciliatum, Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 416, not Willd, P. Beaumontii, Leperv. ; Kuhn, Fil. 
Afric. 209. 
Mauritius, on rocks and trees in the forests of G-randport and Savanne. Also 
Bourbon. 
9. P. serrulatum, Mett. ; Hook, and Baker, Syn. Fil. 323. Root- 
stock creeping, clothed with minute adpressed brown lanceolate scales. 
Stipes very short, tufted, slender, naked. Frond linear, rigidly sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous, the lower part cut about halfway down to the mid- 
rib into obliquely deltoid teeth, the upper part when fertile subentire. 
Veins distant, simple, distinct, erecto-patent, one running into each 
tooth and reaching the edge. Sori oblong, superficial, soon confluent 
and filling up the whole of the upper third or half of the frond, except 
the edge. Xiphopteris serrulata, Kaulf. ; Bojer, Hort. Maur. 415. 
