ii4 Baker. A Summary of the new Ferns 



long, with the soriferous patches placed at the base of the long 

 strap-shaped final segments. East Peru, Spruce, 4729. Pa- 

 quichas, Pearce, 786. 



2. P. aethiopicum, Hook. P. elephantolis, Schweinf. in Bot. 

 Zeit. 1871, 361, is identical with P. angolense, Welw. I 

 cannot distinguish specifically a plant from Guiana of which 

 Messrs. Sander and Co. of St. Albans have sent several 

 specimens lately to Kew. 



2*. P. Ellisii, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XV, 421 ; Hook. Ic. t. 

 1695. Madagascar, first gathered by the Rev. W. Ellis in 1 870. 



2*. P. madagascariense, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XV, 421. 

 Madagascar, first gathered by Mr. W. Pool in 1876. 



OSMUNDACEAE. 



Genus 62,. OSMUNDA, Linn. 



6. O. regalis, L. var. O. japonica, Thunb. Has been gathered 

 in Angola by Mr. H. H. Johnston. 



Genus 63. TODEA, Willd. 



2. T. wilkesiana, Brack. Has now been found in New Guinea 



and Samoa. 



3. T. hymenophylloides, R. & L. T. grandipinnula, Moore, 



in Gard. Chron. 1886, I, 752, is probably a form of this 

 species. 



SCHIZAEACEAE. 1 



Genus 64. SCHIZAEA, Smith. 



2. S. pusilla, Pursh. Has been found in Nova Scotia by Mrs. 



Britton. 



15. 8. pennula, Sw. 8. plaua. S. tennis, and 8. Balansae, 

 characterised by Fournier in Ann. Sc. Nat. se>. 5, XVIII, 353, 

 all three gathered by Balansa, are to be compared with this 

 species. I have not seen specimens. 



1 See Prantl's Untersuch. z. Morph d. Gefasskryptogamen, Heft II, Die 

 Schizaeaceen, Leipzig, 1881, 410, pp. 161, 8 plates. In this paper 22 species of 

 Lygodiutn, 46 of Aneimia, and 19 of Schizaea, are kept up. 



