Tas. 4699, 
NOTHOLAENA sinvata. 
Sinuated Notholena. 
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Nat. Ord. Fiticrs.—CryptoGamia FILicgs. 
Gen. Char. Sorus marginalis, linearis, continuus (nudus). Jndusium nullum. 
Capsule breviter pedicellate. Vene pinnate, creberrime, interne, tenuissime, 
uni-bi-trifurcate,, venulisque apice acuto desinentibus parallelee—Rhizoma repens. 
Frondes sparse, coriacee, pinnate aut bipinnate, subtus aut paleis densissime imbri- 
catis aut farina aut tomento obtecte. Venz tenuissime in fronde bene macerate 
tantum conspicue. Species intra- et extratropice, in hemisphera australi et boreali 
degentes. Presi. 
NorHoLana sinuata ; rhizomate repente squamoso, stipite brevi rachique ap- 
presse squamoso-pilosis, fronde lineari-pinnata, pinnis brevi-petiolatis ob- 
longo-ovatis cordatisve obtusis sinuatis supra albo-lanatis demum nudius- 
culis subtus dense appresse piloso-squamosis sericeis. 
Nornocu.ana sinuata, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 135. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. 
p. 43. Kunze, in Schkuhr, Fil. Suppl. v. 1. p. 95. t. 45. 
Acrosticuum sinuatum. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 14. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 120. 
GYMNoGRAMMA sinuata. Presi, Tent. Pterid. p. 219. 
Var. levis ; pinnules nearly entire. 
Nornocuiana levis. Mertens et Galeotti, Fil. Mew. p. 46. 
This beautiful Fern is a native of Mexico and New Grenada, 
at elevations in the mountains of from 3000 to 6500 feet, and it 
is found to bear with the temperature of a cool greenhouse with 
a north aspect. It has also been recently found in an expedition 
from Western Texas to El Paso, in New Mexico, by Mr. Charles 
Wright, nos. 814 and 815 of his collection. Like so many other 
Ferns, it is liable to great variations in the form and size of the 
pinnules, generally broad-oblong and deeply sinuated, but not 
unfrequently cordate or even subhastate at the base, and some- 
times with the margin continuous, not, or scarcely at all, sinuated: _ 
it then becomes the WV. /evis of Mertens and Galeotti, and under — 
that name has been received at Kew. The colour is a good deal 
tinged with rusty brown, the under side whiter and silky. The 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1853. 
