

136 25. CHEILANTHES, EUCHE1LANTHES. 



Hab. Limestone rocks near Moulmein, Malayan Peninsula ; discovered by the Rev. 

 C. S. Parish. A larger plant than C. mysurensis, but very doubtfully distinct. From the 

 Ceylonese C. laxa, Moore, it differs mainly by its tomentose rachis. 



23. C. hirta, Swartz ; st. tufted, 2-4 in. 1., strong, erect, densely coated with 

 spreading bright reddish-brown woolly hairs ; fr. 4-12 in. 1., 2-5 in. br., ovate- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatifid; pinnce opposite, spreading from the main rachis at 

 right angles, lanceolate, 1-3 in. 1., cut down to the rachis into numerous oblong 

 pinnl. which are scarcely more than J in. 1., and again inciso-pinnatifid ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces more or less tomentose ; margin of the 

 segm. much incurved ; sori copious. Hk. Sp. 2. p. 92. t. 101. B. /3, C. parmloba, 

 Swz. ; rachis and surfaces less tomentose ; pinnce shorter, with the segm. and apex 

 slightly divided and convolute. Hk. Sp. I. c. 



Hab. Cape Colony northward on the east to Bourbon, on the west to Angola. There 

 is a specimen from Java from Dr. Blume in the Hookerian Herbarium, and Mr. Moore gives 

 it as Chinese. Our a varies much in size and hairiness, and includes three species of 

 Fe"e; viz., his Cheilanthes olivacea (a large form, with the margin of the segm. less incurved) 

 and his Mynopteris contracta and intermedia. It might as suitably be placed in Physa- 

 ptens as here. C. glandulosa, Pappe and Rawson, is a form. 



24. C. viscosa, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1., strong, erect, wiry, dark chesnut- 

 brown, polished, pubescent ; fr. 4-6 in. each way, deltoid, tri- or quadripin- 

 natifid ; pinnce in pairs, the lowest much the largest ; pinnl. of the lower side 

 larger than the others, sometimes 1^-2 in. 1., lanceolate, with narrow linear- 

 oblong segm., which are again cut down to the rachis into small beaded ultimate 

 divisions ; texture herbaceous in the barren frond, subcoriaceous in the fertile one 

 when mature ; rachises pubescent, like the stipe, both surfaces pilose ; sori mor 

 or less confluent. Hk. Sp. 2. p. 105. t. 93. B. 



Hab. New Mexico southward to Venezuela. Easily distinguished from its allies by 

 the deltoid outline of the frond. C. leucopoda, Link, is an allied Mexican plant, said to 

 have a straw-coloured stipe and smaller fronds, and C. tennis, Presl, another allied Mexican 

 plant which I have not seen. From Allosorus hirsutus, Presl, this differs by its hairy 

 stipes and rachis and Cheilanthoid involucre. 



** Stipe not hairy and slightly scaly only towards the base. Sp. 25-35. 



25. C. hispanica, Metten. ; st. caespitose, wiry, naked, dark chesnut-brown, 

 polished, 2-3 in. 1., with a dense tuft of wiry linear-filiform dark chesnut-brown 

 scales at the base ; fr. 1-1^ in. 1., f in. br., deltoid, bi- or tripinnatifid ; pinnce in 

 opposite pairs, the lowest the largest, oblong or again branched on the lower 

 side ; segm. roundish-oblong, crenate ; texture coriaceous ; rachis polished, upper 

 surface green, naked, under brown, tomentose ; sori small, copious. Metten. 

 Cheil.p. 30. 



Hab. Rocks on the banks of the Mondego, near Coimbra, Portugal, Welwitsch; Spain, 



26. C. pulcliella, Bory ; st. densely tufted, 3-9 in. 1., strong, erect, dark 

 chesnut-brown, polished, slightly fibrillose below ; fr. 3-12 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., 

 ovate-lanceolate or deltoid, tripinnate ; lower pinnce opposite, subdeltoid, 

 2-3 in. 1., l-l in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into numerous 

 linear-oblong segm.; texture subcoriaceous; rachis and both surfaces naked; 

 sori copious. Hk. Sp. 2. p. 109. t. 94. A. 



Hab. Madeira and the Canaries. The Abyssinian plant placed here in "Species 

 Filicum" is C. coriacea. 



27. C. variants, Ilk. ; st. densely tufted, 2-6 in. 1., chesnut-brown, polished 

 but rather slender and brittle, fibrillose below ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., l-2 in. br., Ian- 



