32 6. ALSOPHILJL. 



1. A. blechnoides, Hk. ; Jr. pinnate ; pinnae coriaceo-membranaceous, glossy, 

 6-12 in. 1., lanceolate, suddenly acuminate and serrate at the apex ; sori (mixed 

 with copious long hairs) scattered in very irregular lines near the costa, sometimes 

 extending towards the margin. Hk.Sp. 1. p. 35. Metaxya, Pr. Polypod. Sw. 

 P. Parkeri, Hk. & Gr. Ic. F. t. 232. A rostrata, Mart. 



Hab. W. Ind. and Trop. America. Remarkable for the large nearly entire pinnse. 



2. A. phegopteroides, Hk. ; caud. 3 ft. 1. ; st. unarmed, short, 3-4 in. 1., clothed 

 with large lanceolate, glossy, black scales having a pale margin ; fr. l-2 ft. 1., 

 subcoriaceous, black-green above, paler beneath, villous on both sides, especially 

 beneath, with long spreading hairs, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid at 

 the apex, lowest ones reflexed ; pinnce sessile, 3-4 in. 1., 8-9 lines w., oblong, 

 shortly and bluntly acuminated, deeply nearly to the costa pinnatifid ; lobes 

 .oblong, very obtuse, entire, th3 margin a little recurved ; veins forked ; sori at 

 the fork, in a line between ihe costule and the margin ; rachis and costce beneath 

 shaggy with whitish hairs, mixed with brownish, narrow scales. 



Hab. Tarapota, E. Peru, Spruce, n. 4020. A very peculiar species from the shortness 

 of the stipes, the simply pinnato-pinnatifid frond (resembling some Lastrea or Phegopteris), 

 and the hairy clothing, brown and shaggy beneath. 



3. A. pubescens, Baker ; st. ^-1 ft., brown-stramineous, not muricated ; rachis 

 with fine spreading grey hairs below, not scaly ; fr. oblong, bipinnatifid, 3-4 ft. 1.; 

 pinnae ligulate, central 5-6 in. 1., j-l in. br., shortly stalked, the lower reduced, 

 cut down to a narrow wing into close entire blunt lobes 2-3 lin. br. ; texture 

 moderately firm ; both sides finely downy all over, not at all scaly ; veins 

 10-12-jugate, indistinct, deeply forked ; sori near the midrib at the fork. A 

 paleolata, Syn. Fil. edit. 1. p. 32. ex parte, non Mart. 



Hab. Peru, Lechler, 2190; Spruce, 4912; New Granada, Purdie. " Caudex 6-10 ft. 

 high, slender, flexuose, marked with oval scars." Spruce. 



4. A. Tcenitis, Hk.; fr. ample, coriaceo-membranaceous, bipinnate ; pinnl. 

 distant, 3-5 in. 1., lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, subentire, petioled ; petiole 

 articulated on the rachis ; sori in a single series, equidistant between the costa 

 and the margin, mixed with long, copious hairs. Hk. 8p. 1. p. 35. A. excelsa, 

 Mart. Cr. Bras. t. 27 and 37. Trichopteris, Pr. 



Hab. Brazil. 



5. A. elegans, Mart. ; st. aculeated ; fr. bipinnate, carnoso-coriaceous ; pinnl. 

 distant, 2-2^ in. 1., linear lanceolate, suddenly acute, obtuse at the base, petioled, 

 slightly ferruginously woolly and subpaleaceous beneath ; sori in 2 or 3 series, 

 forming an unequal', broad, and more or less interrupted series nearer the costa 

 than the margin. Mart. PL Cr. Bras. p. 03 and 38. Hk. S. l.p. 36. 



Hab. Brazil ; apparently rare. A . crenata, Kunze, is a form with pinnules distinctly 

 inciso-crenate. 



0. A.marffinalis, Kl. ; fr. ample, subcoriaceous, glabrous, bipinnate; prim, 

 pinnce 12-14 in. 1., 4 in. w., pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, oblong, acuminate ; 



Linn. 18. p. 542. 



Hab. Brit. Guiana, R. Schomlmrglc, n. 1129. A well-mai'ked and very distinct species. 

 ** Bi-tripinnate or decompound. Sp. 6-63. 



7. A. Micrsii, Hk. ; rachis aculeate ; fr. firm-membranaceous, bipinnate, 

 glabrous ; prim, pinnce 2 ft. or more 1., pinnated to the very apex ; pinnl. 



