FILICES. 593: 
Sourh Mexico, in the primeval woods of Lobani, Chinantla 3000 to 3500 feet 
(Liebmann), Sierra San Pedro Nolasco, &c. (Jwrgensen, 915), Oaxaca (Galeotti, 6537). 
—Cvsa; Guiana, ex Fournier. 
4. Hemitelia mexicana, Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 135. 
Hemistegia mexicana, Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 135. 
Souta Mexico, primeval woods, near Lacoba, Chinantla at 3000 feet (Ziebmann). 
Neither this, nor the preceding is represented in the Kew Herbarium by authenticated 
specimens. 
5. Hemitelia nigricans, Presl; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. ed. 2, p. 454; Fourn. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xix. p. 261. 
Hemitelia obscura, Mett. in Karst. Fl. Columb. ii. t. 197. fig. 2. 
Nrcaracua, Chontales (Lévy, 465); Panama, Tolé, Veraguas (Seemann, 1120).— 
CoLoMBIA to Peru. Hb. Kew. 
6. Hemitelia petiolata, Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 31, t. 16; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. 
p- 28; J. Sm. in Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 240. 
Panama, Chagres (Fendler, 417, 421), Taboga (Seemann). Hb. Kew. 
7. Hemitelia subincisa, Kunze in Bot. Zeit. 1844, p. 296; Hook. et Bak. Syn. 
Fil, p. 27. : 
GuATEMALA, forest of Vera Paz (Salvin), primeval] woods, Ixcan (Bernoulli & Cario, 
271).—Ecuapor ; Peru. Hb. Kew. | 
Bernoulli and Cario’s specimen of this species exhibits free and anastomosing costal 
veins in different parts of the same frond, thus combining the characters of two 
different sections of the genus. 
| 4, ALSOPHILA. 
Alsophila, R. Br. ; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 31, et ed. 2, p. 456, t. 1. fig. 6. 
_ Ninety arboreous species, chiefly tropical; one extends to Japan, and two are 
found in extratropical South America; one is peculiar to New Zealand, and about five 
to Australia. 
1. Alsophila armata, Presl; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 35; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 
p- 40. 
Alsophila aculeata, Klotzsch ; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 184, et in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxii. 
ip. 172. 
Alsophila myosuroides, Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 134. 
Alsophila aurea, Fée, 8° Mém. Foug. p. 109. 
Alsophila mexicana, Mart. Ic. Pl. Crypt. Bras. p. 70, t. 45; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. ed. 2, p. 38. 
Alsophila bicrenata, Fourn. loc. cit. 
Cyathea bicrenata, Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 137. 
Norra Mexico, Monterey (Weber), Sierra Madre (Rascon); Soura Mexico, Toton- 
tepec, Oaxaca (Liebmann), Mirador (Sartorius), Cordova (Schaffner); GuaTEMALa, 
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