Lobbiane. N. O. Filices. 
TAB. DCOCCXX. 
GYMNOGRAMME AUREO-NITENS, Look, 
Scandens ? tota aureo-sericea tomentosa nitens bipinnata flexuosa, 
pinnis sublonge petiolatis deltoideo-lancéolatis apice pinnati- 
fidis, pinnulis alternis crasso-coriaceis sessilibus oblongo-del- 
toideis obtusissimis profunde pinnatifidis apice integris, lobis 
rotundatis obtusis crenato-dentatis, soris seepe furcatis, rachibus 
crassis. 
Has. Andes of Peru, Mr. Wm. Lobb. 
A very remarkable and beautiful Fern, in some respects ac- 
cording with Kunze’s description of G. ferruginea, in Linnea, 
v. 9. p. 34, but that species is said to have the “ frond pinnato- 
pinnatifid, pinnatifid at the apex,” characters which accord with 
the pinne or primary divisions of this species, but by no means 
portraying the character of our present plant; and “ laciniis 
subtus ferrugineo-tomentosis,” while our species is everywhere 
and uniformly clothed with the same aureo-nitent silky tomentum. 
The fructifications are only visible on removing the tomentum, 
when the forked nerves will be found to bear the sori, which are 
simple or more frequently forked. 
‘ig. 1. Lower lobe of a pinnule seen from the underside, the 
woolly covering having been removed :—maguijied. 
