Schomburghiane. . 'N. O. Filices. 
DCCCCXCII. 
GYMNOGRAMME SCHOMBURGKIANA, Kze. 
Parva fasciculata, frondibus oblongis obtusiusculis chartaceis 
nitidis bipinnatis inferne subtripinnatis, pinnulis plerisque 
obovato-cuneatis ovalibusve inciso-lobatis convexis, steri- 
libus pilis paucissimis solitariis in venas, fertilibus subtus in 
venas copiose pilis longis hispidis, venulis dichotomis apicibus 
clavatis, soris oblongis laxis, stipite elongato rachique 
primario ebeneis nitidis, rachibus secundariis alatis, caudice 
nodoso parvo. 
Gymnogramme Schomburgkiana, Kunze, (Klotzsch in Herb. 
Nostr, n. 1196). 
i Schomburgkiana, Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 184. (name 
only). 
This pretty species is only known to me by the specimens 
here figured, kindly sent by Dr. Klotzsch. M. Fée quotes 
Kunze MSS, as his authority for the name, and I presume 
it has not been yet anywhere published. The whole plant 
1s very glossy: the texture is firm, and in a dry state at least 
the anterior surface of the pinnw is convex. Only a very 
few scattered solitary hairs are seen on the sterile frond, but 
the underside of the fertile ones is copiously hispid with 
long hairs on the veins beneath and among the — 
The veinlets all terminate considerably within the margin and 
are there clavate. 
_Fig. 1. Sterile pinne, seen from above. f. 2. Fertile 
pinne, seen from beneath: —magnified. 
