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Blume (Aspid. imbricatura and A. obtusifolium, Bl.), Be Vriese and Teijsmann ;Luzon , Cuming t n. 213. Hongkong , Urquhart, C. Wright . Loochoo, Beechey.Formosa, Wilford. South Japan, J. Small. Fiji Islands , Milne, R. Oldham ,Braclcenridge (N. obtusifolia, Pr.). Australia : Brisbane River, Mueller ; TeviotRiver, Fraser. Norfolk Island , Simmons. New Zealand , Sinclair. South Ame­ rica : West Indies , Jamaica , Hartweg, n. 1508 and 1583; Mexico , Liebmann (N.occidentalis, Kze .); Brazil , common, Gardner, n. 4081, Sellow (“ N. exaltata,”from Herb . Hort. Reg. Berol .); New Granada, Moritz, Fendler , n. 161, Linden ,n. 318 and 6374; Peru , Mathews, n. 3290, 1106, Spruce (Tarapota), n. 4082,Pceppig (from Kunze), Lechler, n. 2155; Ecuador , Jameson ; Guiana , Be Vriese(“ N. solida ”).— &,pendula. Brazil , Raddi, Fox. Pichincha, Ecuador , Jameson.Venezuela , Linden , n. 1690.— y, delicatula. North-west India , between Carli andCanderla, Jacquemont; Maturan, Col. Bates ; Tavoy, Wallich, n. 1032 : Khasya,Hooker fil. and Thomson; Moulmein , on trees, Parish, n. 26.—A species veryvariable in the breadth of the frond and in the more or less crowded pinnules,and, though difficult to define, easily enough distinguished when the curioustubers are present on the frond, from which the species derives its specific name.On the Cameroon Mountains , Mr. G. Mann has detected it on an elevation of 4500feet. White, waxy, small, circular scales form dots on the upper sides of thepinnae of this and other species of the genus.

2. N. exaltata, Schott; stipes 1 foot and more long andas well as the rachis and costae more or less villoso-paleace-ous often quite glabrous, fronds subcoriaceous 11,-2 feet longoblong-lanceolate pinnated, pinnae 1-2-3 inches long oblongmore or less acuminated with a broad truncated or subcor-date base parallel with the rachis with a sharp auricle aboveand sometimes below, the margin entire or crenato-serrate,sori almost quite marginal, involucres coriaceous reniformwith a very broad sinus.—Aspidium, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 45.Schk. Fil. t. 32 b (a much reduced figure , with a portion ofthe lower part of the frond only nat. size). Raddi, Fil. Bras ,p. 30. t. 46. Nephrolepis, Pr. Metten . Fil. Hort. Lips. p.100 (toho refers hither N. neglecta, Kze. in Linncea, xiii. p.148, and N. intramarginalis, Kze. 1. c. xxiii. p. 301). N. pla-tyotis, Kze. in Linncea, xxiii. p. 312. Metten . Fil. Hort. Lips,p. 100. t. 26. ff. 1-5 ? (the auricles near the middle of the frondunusually large). N. hirsutula, Pr. Aspid., Schk. Fil. t. 33{very good for the form, with longer and narrower pinnae'). As-pid. pilosum, Langsd. and Fisch. p. 14. t. 16. A. Schkuhrii,Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 147 {and in Herb, nostr.).

Hal). Very common in tropical countries. Mexico , Liebmann (N. neglecta,Kze.). New Granada, Schlhn , n. 221, 232, Fendler , n. 162, 370, p. 243, fideMetten . (N. occidentalis, Kze. in Linncea) n. 18, Otto, ft. 657. Panama , Fendler, n.418, S. Hayes, n. 171. West Indies Jamaica , Hartweg, n. 1508 ; Cuba , Wright,n. 826 (N. sesquipedalis, Pr.,Jide Metten.). Guiana , Rd. SchomburyJc, n. 1667 ?(N. ensifolia, Pr., fide KL). Brazil , Martins (“ N. rufescens, Sond.” ), Sellow (N.sesquipedalis, Raddi, KL, and N. pilosa, Pr., KL), Gardner , n. 1221, Spruce , n.19. Peru , Lechler , n. 2515 (“ N. sesquipedalis, PrP ). Ecuador , foot of Chiin-