REPORT ON THE BOTANY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ AND MASAFUERA. 77 



From specimens collected by Mr Downton, and lately presented to the Kew Herbarium 

 by Messrs Veitcb, of Chelsea, this species is evidently very variable in the division of the 

 fronds. The ordinary form, like the ordinary form of Polypodivm vulgare, is simply 

 pinnatifid ; there is also a form corresponding to Polypodium vulgare, var. ca/mbricum, 

 and there are forms with bipiunatifid and almost tripinnatifid fronds, as represented in our 

 Plate. 



Polypodium masafuerse, PhilippL 



Polypodium masafuero?, Philippi in Linnaea, xxix. p. 107. 



Masafuera. — Endemic. Philippi. 



Philippi compares this with a plant which he found on the shore of the Desert of 

 Atacama, and which he proposed naming Polypodium squamatum; but that name is 

 occupied by a Linnsean species. There is a specimen of the Atacama plant in the Kew 

 Herbarium, and it is apparently a distinct species allied to Polypodium plebeium. 



Gymnogramme (Selliguea) elongata, Hook. 



Crymnogramme (Selliguea) elongata, Hook., Sp. Fil., v. p. 157 ; Ilook. and Bale, Synopsis FiL, p. 387 ; 



Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras., fasc. xlix, p. 557. 

 GrammUis elongata, Swartz, Synop. FiL, p. 22. 

 Drynaria elongata, F£e, Gen. Fil., p. 271 ; Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. p. 512. 

 Synammia elongata, Presl, Tent. Pteridogr., p. 212. 

 Pleopmltis elongata, Kaulf., Enum. FiL, p. 246. 

 Pohj2)odium elongation, Mett., Polyp., p. 88. 

 GrammUis lanceolata, Selikuhr, Fil., p. 9, t. 7. 



Juan Fernandez. Gay. 



Cuba and Mexico to Brazil and Chili. 



Although this is specially recorded in the Synopsis Filicum from Juan Fernandez, we 

 have seen no specimen from the island in the Kew Herbarium, possibly because the sheet 

 to which it was attached had been taken out for the purpose of attaching other specimens. 



Nothochlsena chilensis, Hook. 



Nothochlama chilensis, Hook, Sp. FiL, v. p. 112, t. 286 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis FiL, p. 371. 

 Cinci?malis chilensis, Fee; Gay, FL Chil., vi. p. 497. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. On rocks in hot situations — Bertero ; Mosclcy. 



We have seen only one specimen of this plant, collected by Bertero, and two very 

 stunted ones, by Moseley. It is closely allied to Nothochlcena nivea, a native of the Andes 

 from Mexico to Peru. 



