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Fronds herbaceous, pinnate or pinnato-pinuatifid. Ehizome thickish decumbent or erect aud sub-arborescent. (Moore.)
1. Siegnogramma aspidioides. (Hook.) Fronds hairy on both sides, especially the veins, ovato-lanceolate acuminated, pinnate
iirm-memhranaceous, pinnæ opposite or alternate, sessile sub-truncate or adnate, a t tbe base 3-4 inches long, rai-ely an inch wide, oblougo-
lanceolate, lobato-pinnatifid. Veins 5 or 6 pair, 3 low-er united, with an excurrent spurious vein reaching to the sinus, those in the lobes
free, all soriferous, sori linear-oblong, nearly the length of the veins. Rook. Sp. Fil. v. 150.—F / Fil. Jav. p. 172—Phegopteris Stegno-
gvamrae. Metten.
Ceylon. (Gaixiner No. 1292.) I have not been able to procure a specimen o f this species, it is not in Mr. Thwaites' List.
POLYPODIEÆ.
P o l y po d iu m . (See page 54).
I. Polypodium Walkeroe. (Hook.) Stipes 1 to 1-} foot and more long, stout, densely paleaceous at the base with ovate
acuminate pale brown glossy scales, mixed with slender linear setaceous ones, which latter often continue up the rachis ; fronds ample, 21
feet and more long, 6 inches to 1 foot and more broad, firm coriaceous, oblong lanceolate, pinnated with the pinnæ nearly entire (normal
form) more or less deeply pinnatifid, (varieties ft aud -y) or pinnate with the pinnules deeply pinnatifid, (sub-bi-pinnate) (variety 8) costa
of the pinnæ beneath often furnished with setaceous scales ; veins copious, fasciculato-pinnate, sori dorsal upon the veinlets in 2 or more
lines between the costa and margin—Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 233.
Ceylon. (C. P. 1256, 3276, 3 5), a very variable species.
PLATE No. C C X X X I V , / o m .
PLATE No. CCXXXV. B. Variety ft marcrocarpum. Fronds very large, pinnate with the pinnæ pinnatifid Jrd to }¿ of the way
down to the rachis, and often furnished with a large auricle at the superior base. Sori very large.
PLATE No. CCXXXV. C. Variety y pinnatifidum. Pinnæ pinnatifid almost to the rachis, leaving only a broad wing along the
rachis, lower pinnæ sometimes pinnate.
PLATE No. CCXXXV. D. Variety 8 hi-pinnatum. Pinnæ, sub-bi-pinnate. (C. P. 3286) a species dist. 1 Thwaites En.
2. Polypodium rufescens. (Blume.) Caudex creeping, furnished with appressed scales and wiry roots, stipes 8 to 16 inches long,
and together with the main and partial rachises slightly asperous, frouds sub-coriaceous, puberulous beneath with minute yellow hairs,
bi-tri-pinnatifid, i. e. lower pair of pinnæ often bi-pinnatifid, upper ones pinnatifid, pinnules oblong obtuse, spinuloso-sen-ate, veins pinnate,
veinlets simple or forked, reaching to the margin, Sori medial on the vemlets.—Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 194. t. 91. Hook. Sp. F il. iv. 25T.
Ceylon. (C. P. 3143.)
PLATE No. CCXXXVL
3. Polypodium Zeylanicum. (Mett.) Caudex creeping, as thick as a duck’s quill, rooting, branched, clothed with sphagneons scales,
stipites scattered but approximate, |-1 inch long, black patently hispid, fronds G-10 inches long, -¿-rd of an inch wide, sub-meinbranaceo-
coriaceous, sub-pellucid, linear-lanceolate repando-dentate, especially in the upper half glabrous or sub-cihate, and with the remains of hairs
here and there on the surface, sharply acuminated, below gradually attenuated into the stipes, costa rather slender, slightly prominent
on both sides, veins rather distant, moderately patent, once forked near or above the middle not extending to the margin, upper brancli
bearing the sorus chiefly in the upper half of the frond, obliquely patent in a line half way between the costa and the margin, and a little
distant from each other.—Hook. Sp. F il. iv. 169. Metten. Polypod. p. 38. Grammitis Zeylanica. F^e. Gen. Fil. p. 234.
Ceylon. (C. P. 3074.)
PLATE No. CCXXXVn.
4. Polypodium decorum. (Brack.) Caudex short, rather thick, creeping densely ferrugineo-sqnamose, stipites approximate, sub-
terminal on the caudex, 2-4 lines long, inch broad, narrow-lanceolate much and almost caudato-acuminate, the base very gradually
attenuated into the short stipes deeply and nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, segments horizontally patent, narrow-oblong obtuse, quite
entire, below gradually becomiug shorter and broader aud forming shallow elongated lobed wings at the base, costa glabrous or pilosulous,
costule and veins quite sunk and inconspicuous, sori oblong, 5-8-10 in two rows parallel with the costa and between the costa and the
margin partially sunk in a hairy cavity (but with no raised border) at length confluent.— 7/oo/. Sp. FU. iv. 179. Brack. Fil. U. Si.
Expl. Exp. p. 7. t. 2. f . 2. (excellent.) P. nutans. J . Sm. in lloolc. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 394, and Metlen., Polyp, p. 41, ( excl. syn. “ Bl.
Fil. Jav. p. 182. t. 86. A ." ) P. Serra. Wall. Cat. 313/2.
Ceylon. I have lately detected this species on the mountains near Courtallum (Tiimevelly.)
PLATE No, CCXXXVITI. A.
5. Polypodium glandiUosum. (Hook.) Caudex small, indistinct, clinging t» the bark of trees by copious rooting fibres, the rest
of the plant all over piloso-glandulose most so beneath, stipites tufted 1-3 lines long, fronds 2-4 inches long, ^ iuch broad, linear obtuse,
scarcely attenuated a t either extremity, rather firm-inembran<aceous, sub-succulent, deeply nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, segments ovate,
sub-acute, horizontally patent, decurrent a t the base, lowermost ones free, all of them serrato-pinnatifid, costule, and ratlier distant, few and
oblique simple veins indistinct, sori few globose.—Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 193,
Ceylon. (C. P. 1289.)
TLATi: No. C'CXX.XVIIl. P.
G o n iü p t k ü is . (See p a g o 57
1. Goniopteris urophyUa. (Wall.) Caudex ? stipes 2 and more feet long, sometimes very stout, testaceou.s brown, paleaceous at
the base with rather large dark-brown subulate scales, fronds ample firm but not thick, coriaceous rarely membranaceous, glabrous or pilosu-
lous above, and more or less densely pubescent, and sometimes subscabrous or minutely glandulose beneath, 2-3 and more feet long, subovate
pinnated, pinnæ distant, petioled below, 8 inches to 1 ^ foot long, ^ to 2 \ inehes wide from a more or less obtusely and unequally
cuneated base, elliptical-oblong finely caudato-acuminate, quite entire or sub-sinuated, more or less grossly obtusely or rarely acutely serrated
upwards, terminal pinnæ most so, often larger than the rest and long-petioled, veinlets numerous, 15-20 pairs a.Il connivent, save the
few in the teeth or serratures, soriferous iu the middle, the sori consequently forming 2 series each between the costules, and the spurious
costule, or orbicular or 2-Iobed sori are borne a t the point of junction of the 2 veinlets, and are then uniserial.—/Too/. Sp. Fil. v. 9.
Wall. Cat. n. 299 (excl. n. 3 .) Goniopteris. Pr. Phegopteris. 2£etlen. Phegopt.— Vo\. asperum. F r . Reliq. Iloenk. p .2 4 . t .3 . / . 4.
Goniopteris. Pr. Meniscium cuspidatum. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 102. t. 45, (excellent, but sori too long and narrow.) Phegopteris. Metttn.
Phegopt. p. 25. Nephrodium glaudulosum, J . Sm. in Hook. Bot. Joicrn. iii. p. 4U . ( according to the referenceto Cuming, 7i. 16 noi
of Blume.) Aspidium repandum. B l Fil. Jav. p. 144 in Herb Hook, (not W illd .)—ft. unisei-iale ; sori uiiiserial. P. granulosum. Benth.
F l Honkong p. 499, (according to the specific character o f the locality o f Col Urquhart,) not of Presl Nephrod. glaudulosum.
J. Sm. In . Seem Bot. Herald, p, 428 I
Ceylon. (C. P.(3063.)
PLATL No. CCXXXLX.
2. Goniopteris lineata. (Coleb.) Caudex ? stipes 1^ feet and more loug, rather stout, scaleless, glossy, aud as well as the rachis
reddish (rarely stramineous), fronds 1-3 feet long, broad-oblong or lanceolate, coriaceo-membranaceous, pinnated glabrous, pinnæ numerous,
rather distant, patent sessüe 5-8 inches long, about J an mch broad, (on sterile fronds sometimes exceeding 1 inch) from an obhquely cuiie-
ato-truncate sessile base, (lower ones rather more attenuated and sub-petiolate), lanceolate or elongato-oblong finely acuminated at the apex,
the margin coarsely and sharply sub-mucrouato serrated, serratures pointing a Uttle forward, uniform, costa prominent beneath of the
same color as the rachis, and stipes generally reddish, veinlets about 6-8 pairs, of which all are connivent except 2-3 short pairs in the
teetli of the serratures, sori iu 2 series ou the middle of the veinlets.— Sp. F i l v. 12.— Polypodium lineatum. Coleb. in Herb. Wall,
and Wall Gat. n. 300. Hook. I c. Polyp, costatum. W a ll Herb, (not Goniopteris costata, Brack).
Ceylon,
I have not been able to oUain a specimen of (his species, as it has not been fo u n d by Mr. Thwaites.
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