302 NOVAS GENERIS SHORE.^ SPECIES DUAS. 



with only a few small spreading lanceolate scales near the base. 

 Lamina lanceolate, 2-3-pinnate, 1-2 ft. long, 2-4 in. broad, 

 moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on the upper 

 surface, covered all over on the under side with bright yellow 

 powder. PiniifB nearly sessile, deltoid, the lower ones remote and 

 diminished, the central ones 2-3 in. long, caudate, cut down 

 below to the racliis into linear-oblong toothed or at the base com- 

 pound pinnules. Veins close, distinct. Sori reaching from the 

 midi'ib to the edge. 



Assumption, in damp soil ; and 334 a var. concolor of the same 

 species, entirely destitute of the yellow meal. This would be a 

 fine plant to introduce into cultivation. It comes midway between 

 trifoliatd and the ochrdcca variety of calomelanos. 



390 [9'''] . AcEosTicHUM (Elaphogiossum) TENERUM, Baker, n.s]). 

 Khizome short-creeping. Scales scarcely any. Stipe of barren 

 Ay frond, slender, stramineous, 2-5 in. long. Lamina linear, 

 membranous, glabrous, bright green on both sides, 6-9 in. long, 

 1 in. broad at the middle, irregularly crenulate, narrowed gradually 

 fi-om the midtUe to both ends. Veins moderately close, distinct, 

 simple or forked, rather ascending, produced from the midrib to 

 the edge. Fertile frond as long as the barren one, but much 

 naiTower (^ in. broad), on a stipe of the same length. 



Caaguazu, on the shady banks of rivers. Comes in between 

 A. simjde.v and Burchellii. 



376. Lyyodium venustuin, Sw. 



374. Osmund a cinnamomea, Linn. 



331. Anemia PhijUitidis, Sw. 



332. ,, tomentosa, Sw. 



328. Oj)liioglossum nudicaide, Linn. fil. 



1117. Lycopodivm cernuum,, Linn. 



1118. ,, alopeciiroides, Linn. 

 1120. Schifjinella rupestris, Spring. 

 1116. ,, convoluta, Spring. 



NOVAS GENERIS SHORE. E SPECIES DUAS 



PROPONIT Henr. F. Hance, Ph.D., Soc. Linn. Lond. sodalis, cet. 



1. Shoeea Pierrei, sp. nov. Ramis cortice iiigricanti glabro 

 obductis, ramulis angulatis dense grisco-stellato-tomentosis, stipulis 

 ....?, foliis rigido coriaceis ovato-oblongis basi lata obtusis apice 

 breviter acuminatis 3-4 poll, longis 1^-2^ poll, latis utrhique 

 glaberrimis lucidis costa costulisque supra impressis subtus 

 elevatis his ad utrumque latus circ. 12 tenuibus angulo 52 ° 

 egressis arcuatis petiolo 8-lineali glabro ruguloso, panicuhB 3-4 

 pollicaris dense cinereo-tomentosa3 ramulis 8-10, floribus . . . ?, 

 nuce breviter pedicellata ovoidea 4-lincali dense cinereo-tomentosa, 

 calycis fructiferi basibus accretis dense cinereo-tomentosis lobis 2 

 majoribus 2 poll, longis 5 lin. latis minoribus ad 1-1 i poll, longis 



