Bolypodiimi] 
FILICES. 
505 
Mauritius and Seychelles, on mossy rocks and old trunks. Cosmopolitan in 
the Tropics. 
10. P. sechellarum, Baker j Hook and Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. ii. 508. 
Eootstock short. Stipes tufted, wiry, brown, \-l\ in. long, slightly 
pubescent. Frond pendulous, lanceolate, membranous, \ foot long, \ 
in. broad, thinly clothed with fine brown spreading hairs, cut down to a 
broad wing into oblong obtuse lobes £— §■ in. broad. Veins distinct, 
pinnate in the lobes, with 4-5 pairs of branched veinlets. Sori round, 
superficial, forming a row midway between the midrib and edge of the 
lobes terminal on the anterior fork of the veinlets. 
Seychelles, on trunks of trees in the hill-woods of Mahe, Horne , 194 ! Mauri- 
tius, Lady Barkly ! Endemic. 
11. P. leucosorum, Bojer ; Hook, and Baker, Syn. Fil. 324. Eoot- 
stock stout, short-creeping ; basal scales dense, linear, spreading, dark 
brown. Stipes contiguous, wiry, erect, bright brown, naked, 3-6 in. 
long. Frond lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, 6-9 in. long, 1-2 in. 
broad, cut down nearly to the midrib into spreading entire lanceolate 
acute or oblong obtuse lobes in. broad. Veins fine, obscure, 
immersed, copiously pinnate in the lobes, with two branches to most of 
the veinlets. Sori large, round, superficial, forming a single row mid- 
way between the midrib and edge, placed on the tip of the lowest 
branch of each veinlet. 
Mauritius, on mossy trunks in the woods of Nouvelle Decouverte and Grandport. 
Also Bourbon. 
12. P. albobrunneum, Baker. Ehizome stout, short-creeping ; basal 
scales very dense, linear, bright brown, spreading. Stipes contiguous, 
wiry, erect, brown, 1-2 in. long, densely clothed with short fine spread- 
ing brown hairs. Frond lanceolate, coriaceous, 4-6 in. long, £— 1 in. 
broad, white-farinose and thinly clothed with fine spreading brown 
hairs, cut down nearly to the midrib into lanceolate obtuse lobes % in. 
broad, the lower ones shorter and broader. Veins copiously pinnate 
in the lobes, with erecto-patent forked veinlets. Sori round, superficial, 
forming a row close to the edge, terminal on the anterior fork of the 
veinlets. 
Seychelles, in the hill- woods of Mahe, Horne, 681 ! 682 ! Endemic. 
13. P. cultratum, Willd. ; Hook, and Baker , Syn. Fil . 327. Eoot- 
stock erect ; basal scales hair-like. Stipes densely tufted, under an 
inch long, densely clothed with short spreading soft brown hairs. 
Frond flaccid, pendulous, lanceolate, f-1 foot long, |-f in. broad, 
clothed with fine soft-spreading brown hairs, cut down to the rachis 
into very numerous adnate oblique-lanceolate obtuse pinnae iV"! i n - 
broad. Veins pinnate in the pinnae, with distant erecto-patent simple 
