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niferous, stipites aggregated 1 foot and more long hispido-paleaceous towards the base, fronds 2-2^ feet long sub-coriaceo-membranaeeous ovato-lanceolate acuminate glabrouspinnated, pinnae rather distant numerous patent 4-6-8 incheslong from a cuneate base oblong- or linear-lanceolate muchacuminate, lower and sterile ones £-] inch broad and ser-rated, fertile ones narrower and longer and more finely acu-minated pinnatifid about halfway down to the costee, seg-ments oblong obtuse* bearing a single sorus at the apex, in-volucre reniform, rachis and costae beneath very sparinglypaleaceous.— Kze. in Bot. Zeit. iv. p. 460. Metten . Fil. Hort.Lips. p. 100. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 60. Aspid., Sw. Syn. Fil.p. 48 et 247. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 242. Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p.148. Hook. Ic. PL iv. t. 395-6. Ophioglossum acumina-tum, Houtt. Linn. Pfl. x. p. 53. t. 94./'. 3.

Hab. Java , in wooded mountains, Thunberg, Millett, Thos. Lobb, De Vrieseand Teijsmann , ». 337.—This and the following are very peculiar species. Thepresent, as far as yet known, is only found in the mountain-woods of Java.

6. N. floccigera, Moore; caudex ?, stipes ?, frond 2-3 feetlong coriaceo-membranaceous broad-lanceolate furfuraceo-paleaceous beneath, pinnated, pinnae numerous patent 4-6inches and more long from a subtruncated and sometimesslightly auriculated base oblong acuminated, inferior andsterile ones of an inch broad entire or serrated onlytowards the apex, upper and fertile narrower and longermuch and finely acuminated crenato-dentate or at the apexpinnatifido-dentate, teeth usually bidentate, segments of theapex entire, sori marginal, one on each tooth or lobule.—As-pidium, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 149.

Hab. Island of Celebes , Blume, in Herb, nostr. Java , Millett, Thos. Lobb.—Blume compares this with “ Aspid. bidentalum, Spr.” However nearly it maybe allied to that (whatever that may he), it has a close affinity with our prece-ding species; so much so, that were the floceulose pubescence the only charac-ter, 1 should be disposed to consider it a variety of that; but the pinnae arenever more than crenato-lobate, and the teeth are again bidentate, the superiorones only subpinnatifid : in both species the sorus is upon the tooth or lobule,whereas in most of the species of Nephrolepis the venule that beat s the sorus isdirected to the sinus of the teeth or lobes. My specimens of Aspid. floccigerum,Blume, from Celebes , are quite uniform with those of Millett and Thos. Lobbfrom Java .

Of the genus Nephrolepis, X have no authentic knowledge of 'N. rhizodes, Kze.Bot. Zeit. vi. p 236- N. Zollini/eriana, paleacea, pendula, aa&depauperata,o{T>e

Vriese ; nor of N. occidentalis, Kze. in Linnsea, xvm. p. tU-