48. roLYpomuM, GONIOPTERIS. 315 



or narrowed ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and both sides naked ; veins promi- 

 nent, the veinlets 15-20 on a side, with the sori in two close rows, or sometimes 

 one row only. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 9. P. Kennedy!, F. Muell. 



Hab. N. India to Ceylon, Malaccas, Chusan, Aneiteum, and Queensland. Fe^ his 

 three East-Indian species, O. repanda, crenato-dentata, and Dalhousiana, which we 1 ave 

 not seen. This resembles on the one hand Nephrodium glandulosum, and on the other 

 Mcniscium cuspidatum, and is very doubtfully distinct from the latter. 



Go. P. (Goniopt.) rubrinerve, Baker ; st. and rachises naked, rubro-stramineous ; 

 fr. 2-3 ft. 1., oblong-deltoid, simply pinnate ; pinnce ligulate- acuminate, crenate, 

 lower stalked, deltoid at the base, more cut away on the lower side, 1 ft. or 

 more 1., 2 in. br., upper sessile, free ; texture papyraceous ; surfaces dark-green, 

 naked ; midribs reddish ; main veins distinct, 2-2 lin. apart ; veinlets 15-20- 

 jugate ; sori remote from, main veins. Phegopteris, Mett. Linn. 36. p. 116. 



Hab. Aneiteum and Viti, Macgillivray and Milne. Scarcely more than a variety of 

 urophyllum. 



66. P. (Goniopt.) crenatum, Swz. ; st. 1-2 ft. 1., erect, naked or pubescent; fr. 

 1-2 ft. 1., 1 ft. or more br., with an oblong-lanceolate terminal pinna 6-8 in. 1., 

 1^-2 in. br., the edge nearly entire or a little bluntly lobed, and 2-4 opposite 

 pairs of similar lateral ones ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; veins fine, the main 

 veins 1^-2 lin. apart, and veinlets 6-9 on a side ; rachis and under side naked or 

 finely villose ; sori in rows near the main veins. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 2. 



Hab. Cuba and Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil. G. Rivoirei, Fe"e, Fil. Ant. t. 18, 

 appears to belong here. 



" 67. P. (Goniopt.) Gheisbreghtii, Linden ; st. 1 ft. or more 1., firm, erect, 

 densely villose ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., with a terminal pinna 6-9 in. 1., 1^-2 in. br., 

 the edge slightly lobed, and 3-6 similar ones on each side ; texture papyraceous ; 

 rachises and under surface densely villose, the upper surface slightly so ; 

 veinlets about 12 on a side ; the sori in dense rows close to the main vein. P. 

 crenatum, Hk. Fil. Ex. t. 84 (not Sw.). Goniopt. mollis, Fee, Fil. Ant. t. 24. 



Hab. Tabasco, S. Mexico, Linden, 1499. 



08. 



12-18 in. 



H in. br., pinnatifid about one-third of the" way down, and several similar but 

 narrower and less deeply lobed ones on each side ; texture coriaceous ; rachis and 

 under surface naked ; veins prominent, 9-12 on a side ; sori in rows close to the 

 main vein. 



Hab. Mexico. 



69. P. (Goniopt.) proliferum, Presl ; rhizome stout, creeping ; st. spreading, 

 naked, 2-8 in. 1. ; fr. 1-2 ft. 1. or more, 6-12 in. br., erect or decumbent, often 

 elongated and rooting at the point and branched copiously from the axils ; 

 pinnce 4-6 in. 1., -|-f in. br., broadest at the base, truncate or cordate, the edge 

 bluntly lobed more than 1 lin. deep, the point often blunt ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis and under side naked or slightly pubescent ; veinlets fine, 6-10 on a side ; 

 sori medial, oval, sometimes confluent. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 13. Ampelopteris, Kze. 



Hab. N. India to S. China, Philippines, New Caledonia, N. Australia, Angola, 

 Mauritius, Zambesi-land, and South Africa. J^^TA-L, . '/ &tt t^> ' 



70. P. (Goniopt.) tomentosum, Bory ; st. erect, rather slender, densely villose ; 

 fr. about 1 ft. 1., 6-9 in. br. ; lowest pinnce the largest, distinctly stalked, 3-4 in. 

 1., f-f in. br.,the edge nearly entire or with slight blunt lobes, the base truncate ; 



P. ( Goniopt. )faucium, Liebm. ; st. 1 ft. or more 1., firm, erect, naked ; />-. 

 in. 1., 1 ft. or more br., with an oblong-lanceolate terminal pinna 6-8 in. 1., 



