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facile secedentibus , mediis subaequilaterale-cylindraceis vel 

 paulo longioribus, truncatis. Paraphyses Ionge superantes, 

 guttulatae laxe ramosae. Dr. G. Winter. 



J. G. Baker, List of Balansa's Ferns of Paraguay, 

 with Descriptions of the new species. 



Dies Verzeichniss zahlt 74 Species auf, darunter 5 nov. 

 sp. ; deren Beschreibung bier wortlich folgt: 



Cheilanthes Recurvata, Baker, n. sp. Stipes 

 densely tufted, glabrous, 4—6 in. long, slender, fragile, 

 channelled down the face, with only a few small linear sca- 

 les near the base. Lamina oblong- deltoid, green on both 

 sides, glabrous, moderately firm in texture, 3 — 4-pinnate, 

 5—6 in. long, 3 — 5 in. broad. Rachises castaneous and 

 quite naked, not flexuose. Pinnae deltoid, the 3 — 4 lowest 

 pairs subequal, rather produced on the lower side, l 1 ^ — 2 

 m. long; pinnnules linear, remote, spreading from the rachis 

 at right angles; tertiary segments sessile, roundish, distant, 

 not more than half a line broad, crenate, with the edges 

 much recurved, only the very lowest sometimes again com- 

 pound, the end ones of the pinnules deeply flabellately cleft, 

 pori marginal, hidden by the recurved edge of the segments, 

 the indusium only the very edge of the lamina slightly al- 

 tered in texture. 



Rocky slopes of the Cerro Lambare, November, 1876. 

 A very distinct species, most like C. Regnelliana, Mett., 

 »ut much more compound, and the small distant ultimate 

 segments not so decidedly bullate. We have a closely-allied 

 plant from Glaziou, not yet described, which differs by its 

 remarkably flexuose rachises. 



Polypodium Paraguayense, Baker, n. sp. Rhi- 

 zome wide- creeping. Scales small, lanceolate acuminate, 

 bright brown, confined to the rhizome and very base 

 °f the stipes. Stipes wiry, brownish, naked, 2 — 3 in. 

 ! 0n g- Lamina oblong -lanceolate, simply pinnate, 12 — 15 

 m - j ong, 5—6 in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in 

 texture, not elastic, green on both sides, obscurely pubes- 

 cent. Rachis slender, wiry, brownish, finely pubescent, 

 "innae 30 — 40 -jugate , linear, spreading almost horizon- 

 j a "y, the largest °2 1 \% — 3 in. long, % in. broad, adnate 

 °y the whole dilated base, contiguous except the 3—4 

 io west pairs, which are a little reduced, distinctly crenate, 

 uarrowed gradually from the middle to an acute point. 

 ^eins distinct, 30— 40 -jugate, all except the uppermost 

 bearing 3—4 branches, the single sorus placed at the tip ot 



