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plain, slightly undulated at the margins, very entire, thick, stiff, 
fragile, naked, and shining, covered on the upper surface with 
minute pellucid dots, the under side horizontally nerved, and 
covered with fructifications from the middle upwards, though 
in some fronds they descend within twe or three inehes of the 
‘base. | 
_Stipes—long, semicylindrical, naked, and shining, channelled 
on the upper side. 
- Fractification—In round ‘spots, bokcetlt about the size and 
shape of a lentil, disposed in irapaeenet a lines, that is, be- 
tween the transversal nerves. _ 
Capsules—Many in each spot, Meticclicd, and? in all respects 
‘similar to those of the preceding species, but smaller, interspersed 
with hairs and filled with very small oval seeds. 
Grows—In the mountains and woods of the provinces of Tarma, 
Panatahuas, and others in warm situations on heen and rocky 
grounds destitute of trees. | : 
It is found in jrachfieater Cineeiamiaue year. The a 
denominate it Puntu-puntu, and some Creoles call it Deer’s 
tongue. In commerce and with the apothecaries it is distinguish- 
ed from the first and. the Plowing by the designation of thick 
Calaguala. 
Uses—The natives of Bern use : ihe. decoction of peeturpagts 
vas a sudorific i in pains of the side. 
OBSERVATION. 
‘The cold infusion.and the decoction of this root,:‘made in glass 
vessels with distilled water, assumea clear red. The flavour both | 
of the infusion and decoction, and of the root.itself when mas- | 
ticated, is somewhat viscous, with a degree of sweetness by 
no means unpleasant, and without the slightest bitter. The in- 
