34 Baker. A Summary of the new Ferns 



15. Pellaea ternifolia, Fe'e. West Indies, St. Domingo, Baron 

 Eggers. I cannot separate specifically Cheilanthes weddel- 

 liana, Moore, Ind. Fil. 257. 



16*. P. Pringlei, Davenport, in Herb. Pringle Jalisco, 2591. 

 Frond simply pinnate ; lower pinnae petioled, hastate. North 

 Mexico. 



17*. P. lancifolia, Baker, n. sp. Stipes densely tufted, castaneous, 

 2-3 in. long, with a few minute linear paleae near the base. 

 Frond lanceolate, bipinnate, membranous, glabrous, 4-5 in. 

 long, narrowed from the middle both ways. Rachis naked, 

 castaneous. Central pinnae the largest, sessile, lanceolate, cut 

 down nearly or quite to the rachis into 2-3 -jugate, adnate, 

 ovate-deltoid patent lobes, i-ij lin. broad; lower pinnae 

 distant, dwarfed. Indusium very broad, green, glabrous. 

 Namaqualand, Sir H. Barkly. Differs from profusa by its 

 naked rachis and very broad indusium. 



22*. P. Kitchingii, Baker, in Journ. Bot. 1880, 327 ; Hook. Ic. tab. 

 1639. Central Madagascar, Kitching. 



24*. P. fumariaefolia, Philippi. Stipes tufted, slender, naked, 3-4 

 in. long, green above the castaneous base. Frond oblong, 

 decompound, thick, green, glabrous, 2-3 in. long ; sterile more 

 compound than the fertile. Lower pinnae the largest, petioled, 

 deltoid. Final segments short, linear, i -nerved. Fertile frond 

 less compound; final segments linear-oblong, \-\ in. long. 

 Sori filling the whole under surface of the segments. Indusium 

 broad, continuous, rigid, glabrous. Araucania, Philippi. 

 Habit of Cryptogramme crispa. 



28*. P. namaquensis, Baker, n. sp. Stipes densely tufted, cas- 

 taneous, 23 in. long, clothed with distinct spreading linear 

 paleae. Frond deltoid, tripinnatifid, bright green, glabrous, 

 23 in. long; rachis castaneous, with a few minute paleae. 

 Lowest pinnae much the largest, deltoid, stalked, \ in. broad, 

 its pinnules cut down nearly to the rachis into a few oblong 

 lobes. Indusium narrow, green, membranous, glabrous. 

 Namaqualand, Sir H. Barkly. Between involuta and conso- 

 brina. 



35*. P. integricuspis, Fourn., in Ann. Sc. Nat. SCT. 5, XVIII, 324. 

 New Caledonia, Balansa, 824. Not seen. To be compared 

 with P.falcata. 



