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OF FKRNS FHOil MADAGASCAK. 205 



plete) naked, castaneous, finely pilose, like the rachis. Trend 

 deltoid, 3-4-pinnatifid, 5-6 in. long and broad, bright green, 

 membranous ; the veins ciliated with a few long hairs, the rest of 

 the surface glabrous. Pinnse few, the lowest pair much the 

 largest, deltoid, distinctly petioled, 1| in. broad, produced on the 

 lower side, with bipinnatifid oblong-lanceolate lowest pinnules, 

 which are much larger and more compound than any of the others. 

 Ultimate lobes oblong, close, -j^-- g- in. broad, reaching down about 

 halfway to the midrib. Veins copiously pinnate in the ultimate 

 lobes, with fine erecto-patent veinlets. Sori close or subremote, 

 2 line broad, round, with the margin not at all recurved. 



Discovered by Mrs. Street. Habit aud texture of the small 

 forms of Il^polep is Bergiana. 



Gymkogkamme leptophylla, Desv, 



VlTTARIA ELOXGATA, Sw. 

 V, LINEATA, Sw. 



AcKOSTICnUM LATIFOLIITM, 8w. 



-w A. LIXEARE, Fee. 



A. SQUAMOSUM, Sw,y var. leucolepis, Baker. Lamina of the 

 barren frond |-| in. broad ; both surfaces densely scaly. Scales 

 white or pale brown, large, lanceolate, densely imbricated, ciliated 

 only, not fimbriated; in one specimen | in. long in the lower 

 third of the frond and suddenly black in the lower half. 



Probably a distinct species ; but I have not seen the fertile 

 frond. 



A. soEBiEOLiUM, Linn. 



Platycekium madagascaeiekse. Baker. Miss Gilpin has 

 brought the barren frond, which was wanting in Mr. Pool's col- 

 lection. It is nearly a foot broad, obversely obloug, 6-8 inches 

 from the border to the point of attachment, entire, glabrous, cori- 

 aceous. The large strong raised veins forming irregular penta- 

 gonal areolj^, the central ones 1-1^ in. long, the outer ones grow- 

 ing gradually smaller. 



ScHlZJiA DICnOXOMA, SlV, 

 MOHKIA CAFFHORUAf, BeSV* 



Lycopodium DicnOTOMUM, Sw. Exactly matching Brazilian 

 specimens. New to the Old World. 



L. CEBNUUM, L. 



