ioo Baker. A Summary of the new Ferns 



Taenitts, Platytaenia, Cheiropleuria, Psilogramme, Gymno- 

 gramme, and Monachosorum. 



Subgenus Leptogramme. 



9*. G. Levingei, Baker; G. aurita var. Levinget, Clarke, in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. ser. 2, I, 568. Rhizome slender, 

 wide-creeping; paleae lanceolate, membranaceous. Stipe 

 slender, naked, 6-8 in. long, straminous with a brown base. 

 Frond lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate, membranous, 

 pubescent, i-i| ft. long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, nar- 

 rowed to the base. Pinnae lanceolate, sessile, - in. broad, 

 cut down to the rachis into contiguous erecto -patent linear- 

 oblong pinnules. Veinlets erecto-patent : upper simple, 

 lower forked. Sori oblong or globose, placed nearer the 

 margin than the midrib. West Himalayas; Jhelum valley, 

 alt. 4000 feet. Levtnge. I follow Mr. C. W. Hope in treating 

 this as a species. 



10*. G. subsimilis, Hook. Sp. Fil. V, 142, tab. 293. Further 

 specimens gathered by Kalbreyer in the Cameroons show this 

 is a good species, which should be placed here. 



11*. G. gigantea, Baker, in Journ. Bot. 1889, 177. West China: 

 Hupeh, Dr. Henry, 6517. Habit of American Asplenium 

 dubium, Mett. 



11*. G. Cominsii, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XIX, 296. Solomon 

 Isles, Rev. R. B. Comins. Near the last. 



Subgenus Eugymnogramme. 



14*. G. cyclophylla, Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. II, 

 293, tab. 53 ; figs. 1-2. Mount Roraima, im Thurn, 295. 

 Falls under Pterozonium, Fee, near G. reniformis, Mett. 



15*. G. elaphoglossoid.es, Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. II, 293, tab. 54, figs. 1-5. Mount Roraima, im Thurn, 

 101, 215. Habit of Acrostichum Lingua. The confluent 

 sori finally fill up the whole surface of the frond except a band 

 near the margin. 



16*. G. sinuata, Moore herb. Habit of Polypodium trifurcatum, L. 

 Stipes tufted, slender, about 2 in. long, densely clothed with 

 spreading brown hair-like paleae. Frond lanceolate, mem- 

 branous, 6-8 in. long, - in. broad at the middle, narrowed 

 gradually to the base, shallowly obtusely lobed, furnished on 



