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N iphobolus. (S e e p a g e 61.)
1. NiphoboluB Lingua. (Sw.) Caudex very long, creeping, ratlier slender, fiexuose paleaceous with ferruginous subulate
scales stipites 3-G inches and more long, remote, always arising from a short very paleaceous branch of the caudex, upper scales
longest and spreading, fronds 4-8 inches long, lanceolate or ovate or oblong, obtuse or acuminated, densely aud very compactly stellate,
and sometimes sub-squamuloso tomentose a t length glabrous above. Sori sub-elevated, copious in 4-6 close series between the primary or
costular veins, and from 9-20 between the secondary veins. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 49. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 29. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 162. Langsd.
et Fisch. Fil. i. p- 7., f . 5. Metlen. Polyp, p. 130. Acrostichum. Th. Fl. Jap. p. 330, i. 33. Schk. Fil. p. 1. t. 1. Niphobolus. Spr. Kze. Schk.
Fil. Supiil. p. 144, t. 63.
Ceylon, (C. P. 1294.)
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2. Niphololus Gardneri. (Metten.) Caudex somewhat creeping, the younger portions densely ferrugmeo-paleaeeous, stipites
approximate arising from a scaly branch of the caudex, 2-4 inches long, fronds about a foot long, carnoso-coriaceous lanceolate, obtusely
acuminate, gradually attenuated upon the stipes, densely clothed with a very compact firm sub-furfuraceou.9 mass of whitish or ferruginous
stellated tomentum, costa and primary veins or costules slightly elevated beneath, venation of Campyloneurum, secondary transverse
veius more obscure, veinlets generally free and soriferous, sori superficial (not sunk) in about four series, parallel with the costules and
10-12 transverse series between the costa and the margin.—Var. a subferruginea, Uook. Sp. Fil. v. 51. Metten Polypod. p. 129. Niphobolus
Gardneri. Kze. J . Sm. Cal. Cult. Ferns, p. 12. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 68. N. acrosticboides. J . Sm. Gat. Kew. Gard. Ferns, p. 2.
N. costatus, J . Sm. Cat. Kew. Ferns, p. 6 ? {not Polyp, acrosticboides, Forst.)
Ceylon, (C. P, 988.)
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N o t e .— Heope/ris {C. P. 1296) is refem'edhj S ir W. Hooker, to P. nigrescens (B lume .) I have a specimen now before me,
and it is certwinly the same as the plant figured in Plate No. C L X X V I o f this work, specimens o f which are referred by S ir IV. Hooker io
P. hngissima (Blume.) Mettenius unites the two species o f Blume, and i f they are distinct, I expect that S ir W. Hooker has made a
mistake in referring the South In d ia n and Ceylon specimens to diffen'tnt species, as mine is certainly the same as the Ceylon plant.
ASPIDIEÆ.
S agenia. (Vide p ag e 27.)
1. Sagenia suUriphylla. (Hook.) Caudex creeping, and as well as the base of the stipites moderately scaly, stipites a span to
1} foot or more long, generally brownish, fronds glabrous or pubescent, sub-coriaceo-membranaceous when young, entire or 3-lobed, cordate
acuminate, in maturity 3-foliate or pinnated with 5-7 pinnæ, terminal pinna large, sub-rhomboid, variously pinnatifid, lower lobes the
longest, intermediate ones sessüe or petiolate, oblong more or less acuminate, lowest pair distant, large semi-ovate more or less acuminate,
and pinnatifid, lowest segmeuts (especially a t the inferior base) generaUy very much elongated, patent or deflexed, or not unfrequently
(unless I am mistaken in the limits of species), the lowest pinnæ are pinnate, and even sub-bi-pinnate, all costate, vems uniformly anastomosing
with areoles, having free, simple or forked veinlets. Sori scattered, all compital (on back of the anastomosing veins), involuere.s
cordiform. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 52. Polypodium subtriphyUum. Hook, and Arn. Bot. o f Beech. Voy., p. 256, t. 50. Aspidium trifolia-
tum. Hook, in Floral Ilmgkong. Keiv. Gard. Misc. ix. p. 341. Benth. F l. Hongkong, p. 450. (Excl. Syn. o f A. variolosum, Wall.) Eat.
in C. Wright. Herb, o f U. St. Pacif. Expl. Exp. ( in Herb. Hook.) Drynaria latifolia, Brack. FU. U. St. Expl. Exped. p. 50.
Ceylon. (C, P. 1300.)
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PLATE No. CCXLir.
2. Sagenia gigantea. var. minor. (Hook.) This species is very similar to the normal form of S. gigantea, described and
figured in a former number of this work, vide page 27 and Plate LXXX, it is, however, a much smaller variety, the fronds are more deeply
lobed and more delicate in texture, and it may perhaps be a distinct species.
Ceylon. (C. P. 1358.)
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