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borazo, pendulous from the branches of trees, sterile fronds sometimes 12 feetlong, Spruce, n. 5727. Pacific Isles: Otaheite and Pitcairn ’s Isles, rufo-paleaceo-hirsute, Mathews, n. 6, Cuming, n. 1419 and 1381. Isle of Pines and Fiji ,Milne, Seemann, Harvey. Oahu , Seemann, Brackenridge. Dunk Island, Mac-gillivray. Teviot River, Australia , Fraser. Tropical West Africa, south of theline, Curror (rufo-pubescent). Indian Continent : most abundant from the Ma-dras Peninsula {Wight, n. 27) in the West, to Himalaya , Bhotan, and Moulmein {Parish, n. 54) in the East, Wallich, n. 1031, Hohenacker , PI . Ind. Or. n. 600(N. hirsutula.Pr.). China , Alexander; Hongkong , Hance, Wilford, Vachell, Wright(“ N. hirsutula, Pr.”). Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. Walker, Gardner, n. 1089. Malay Archipelago : Malacca , Cuming, n. 406, Griffith (N. volubilis, J.Sm.); Java ,Blame (membranaceous pinnte falcate, Aspid. ensifoliuin, Bl.; common form, A.liirsutulum, Bl., and A. Sclikuhrii, Bl.), De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 343, 353(Sumatra ), 335, 349, 348 (Ternate), Singapore , Prince of Wales Island, etc.—Numerous as are the above localities, I have restricted myself very much to suchspecimens as have been circulated with numbers, or as have well-authenticatednames. Judging from many of my specimens, I fear the form of the involucre isvariable, sometimes, in age especially, scarcely distinguishable from that of N.acuta, while others, particularly in a young state, very much resemble those ofN. tuberosa, which constitutes a different genus according to Fee.

3. N. acuta, Pr.; stipites 1-2 feet long subpaleaceous withsubulate long ciliated scales mixed with longer ones teretevery smooth olivaceous, fronds 2-4 and more feet long 8-12inches broad oblong-lanceolate membranaceous more or lessfirm horizontal |-1 inch broad sword-shaped (oblong-lanceo-late) distant more or less acute or acuminate obliquely trun-cato-cuneate at the base, entire or serrated or irregularlyand coarsely crenate rarely subauriculate, lower ones oblong-elliptical obtuse, sori distant from the margin but nearerto it than to the costa, involucres cordate when young, almostorbicular.—Aspid. acutum, Schk. Fit. p. 32. t. 31. Sw. Syn.Fit. p. 46. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. p. 220. Aspid. splendens,Willd. Sp. PI . l.c.p. 220. Bl. En. Fil. Jav.p. 147, and in Herb,nostr. Aspid. paludosum, Raddi, Fil. Bras . p. 29. Nephro-lepis biserrata, J. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. iii. p. 413. Sieb.Syn. Fil. n. 39, and Sw. ? vix Schk. Fil. t. 33 c ? {pinna, only).

/3, subferruginea; rachises and costse ferrugineo-hirsutu-lous beneath. Arana-panna, Rheede, Hort. Mulctb. xii. p. 61.t. 31.

Hah. India , Rheede, Klein. Java , Blume, Zollinger, n. 146, De Vriese andTeijsmann, n. 339. Borneo , De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 55. Malacca , Griffith.Luzon , Cuming, n. 22. Moulmein , Parish, n. 55. China : Hongkong . Urqu-hart, Wilford. Ceylon Mrs. Genl. Walker. Pacific Islands , Society Islands ,Bidwill, Cuming, n. 1480 Aneiteum and Fiji Islands , and Frankland Islands, andfunk Island, Milne, Macgillivray, Harvey, Seemann. Isle of Pines , Milne.Navigators’ Islands . Tropical East Coast of Australia, All. Cunningham. Mauri­ tius , Sieber, etc. Tropical East Africa: Galega Island and Madagascar , Bojer;Johanna Island , Speke. West Africa , Vogel, Barter , Ansell; Abeokuta , Irving ;Senegambia, Herb. Mus. Par. South America : Brazil , Raddi (Asp. paludosum),

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