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once forked near or above the middle not extending to the mar-gin, upper branch bearing the sorus chiefly in the upper half ofthe frond obliquely patent in a line halfway between the costaand the margin and a little distant from each other. (Tab.CCLXXII. B.)— Metten . Polypod. p. 38. Grammitis Zey-lanica, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 234.
Hab. Ceylon, Mrs . Genl. Walker, Gardner, n. 1138, 1283/1.—Allied to, buttruly distinct from, P.fasciatum, in the outline of the frond, in the presence ofteeth at the margin, and in the shape and position of the sori.
17- P. (Eupolypodium) Mrtum, Hook, (an Metten . ?); cau-dex small ascending copiously fibroso-radiculose scaly above,stipites tufted black 1-11 inch long villous with spread-ing brown hairs, fronds firm opaque-membranaceous 3-4 ormore inches long | of an inch wide linear-oblong obtusequite entire at the margin moderately attenuated at the baseciliated and more or less villous with long brown hairs, veinsspreading forked near the base, upper branch short soriferous,sori subglobose in very regular series close to the costa.(Tab. CCLXXIII. A.)— Metten . Polypod. p. 38 ? Grammitishirta, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 394 (no description orcharacter). Grammitis hirta, Bl. En. Fil, Jav.p. 111. t. 46./. 1 ? (veins too much, branched). Grammitis setosa, Bl. En.Fil. Jav. p. 116. t. 48. f. 3 (non Pr.), and Gr. pubinervia ?,Bl. 1. c. t. 48./. 4.
Hab. Java , Blume, Zollinger. Luzon , Cuming, n. 222.—The smaller Indiangraimiiitoid Polypodia , if I may so call them, are attended with great difficultyin their study; and neither the costly figures nor the descriptions of Blume tendso much as they ought to do to remove the difficulties. Mettenius refers to threeof Blume’s species as belonging to P. hirtum, Bl. That which bears the nameof hirtum has the veins twice and thrice forked, or even pinnated, with divaricatingbranches, and Mettenius goes so far as to add (including all the three species ofBlume) “ hinc inde more Marginalise anastomosantes.” Now the plant of Mr. J.Smith, identical with ours, has the veins with one, a single short, branch at theutmost, and in point of outline and sori it best accords with Grammitis setosa ofBlume. But if that, as Mettenius would imply, has much branched and some-what anastomosing veins, which I do not at all infer from Blume’s description,then our plant is distinct; and it is this of which we here give a figure.
18. P. (Eupolypodium) obscurum, Metten. ; “rhizomecreeping, stipites 2-3 lines long, fronds coriaceous firm setoseat the margin and costa 3-4 inches long 4 lines wide linearor lanceolate attenuated towards the base obtuse, veins im-mersed generally repeatedly forked, sori dorsal on the an-terior lowest branch close to the costa, capsules setose.”—Metten . Polypod. p. 38. Grammitis obscura, Bl. En. Fil.