202 DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW BEASILIAN VERNONIACE^. 



creeping, firm, | inch thick. Scales lanceolate acuminate, dark brown, 

 with a paler edge, l-l-J line long. Fronds sessile, contiguous, but not 

 crowded, linear- subulate, 2-3 inches long, entire, glabrous, very rigid 

 and coriaceous in texture, under a line broad, the edges recurved so 

 as quite to hide the midrib. Veining quite hidden. Sori round, -^ a 

 line thick, placed in the upper half of the frond a space apart, 6-15 on 

 a side close to the midrib, quite hidden by the recurved edges, so that 

 the upper part of the frond is like a cylinder with round bead-like 

 prominences. Like no Pohjpodium already known. It most recalls 

 Vittaria Imeata fin texture and general habit, but this beaded cylin- 

 drical aspect marks it at a first glance. 



P. {Phymatodes) lineare^ Thunb. 



P. {Phymatodes) normale, D. Don., var. polysonm, Baker. Rhizome 

 wide- creeping, flexuose, 2 lines thick, denudate. Stipe none, or ex- 

 v^ tremely short. Lamina oblanceolate, 3-5 inches long, an inch broad, 

 cuneate at the base, glabrous, subcoriaceous. Yeining quite immersed, 

 but distinct when the frond is held up to the light. Sori in crowded 

 erecto-patent rows of about four each, extending legularly from near 

 the midrib to the edge, except in the lower half or quarter of the 

 frond. 



P. {Fliymatodes) ovatum, "Wall. Entirely the Himalayan form, not 

 seen before in China. I suspect strongly this will prove to be a mere 

 variety of the Japanese P. ensaUim, Thunb., but Dr. Shearer's speci- 

 mens furnish no further evidence in this direction than we had 

 before. 



Vittaria lineata, Sw. 



Gymnogrammajaponicay Desv. Very fine and characteristic speci- 

 mens. 



Osmunda regalis, Linn. 



Lygodium japonicum^ Sw. 



L. scandens, Sw. 



Botrychium ternatum, Sw. 



The flowering plants of the collection contain a great many species 

 of interest, but have not yet been fully worked out. 



DESCRIPTIOITS OE THREE KEW BRASILIA^ 

 VERN0NIACE2E. 



By J. G. Baker, F.L.S. 



In a parcel just received from Dr. Glaziou, of Rio Janeiro, whose 

 collecting numbers have now reached nearly 8000, are several inte- 

 resting Co7npositce, sent to be incorporated in my monograph on the 

 Brasilian species, contributed to the "Flora Brasiliensis." Of the 

 novelties three are VernoniacecBj and as the part devoted to that sub- 

 order is already printed, I give descriptions of them here, the 

 number prefixed to the names indicating the position they occupy in 

 the sequence of species as arranged in the Flora. 



157* Vernonia condensata. Baler ^ n. sp. A shrub with slender 

 terete striated branches, clothed with thin whitish tomentum. Petioles 



