52. GYMNOGRAM51E, EUCYMNOGRAMME. 379 



16. G. pumila, Spreng ; rhizome filiform ; fr. tufted, 1^-2 in. 1., palmately 

 forked at the apex, the ultimate lobes narrow and acute, the blade narrowed 

 below to an indistinct stem ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface dark-green 

 and glossy ; veins flabellate ; sori linear, irregular. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 126. Hecis- 

 topteris, J. Sm. 



Hab. West Indies and Guatemala to the Amazon Valley. 



** Frond simply pinnate. Sp. 17-19. 



17. G. Muelleri, Hk. ; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., wiry, densely clothed with small 

 linear ferruginous scales ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., simply pinnate ; pinnae 

 sessile, alternate, roundish or oblong, sometimes in. 1., -| in. br., entire or the 

 lower ones auricled ; texture thick, coriaceous ; rachis and under surface densely 

 matted with scales like those of the stem, upper surface pale-green, with scattered 

 scales ; veins flabellate ; sori linear. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 143. t. 295. 



Hab. N. E. Australia ; and gathered lately in Queensland by Mr. Hill. 



- 18. G. vestita, Hk. ; st. tufted, 3-6 in. 1., wiry, more or less matted, the scales 

 at the base densely tufted, silky, bright-ferruginous ; fr. 6-12 in. 1., l-l in. br., 

 simply pinnate ; pinnce in distant pairs, oblong or cordate-ovate, entire, bluntish, 

 the lower ones distinctly stalked ; texture thick, but flaccid ; both sides and 

 rachis densely coated with fine velvety ferruginous hairs ; veins flabellate ; sori 

 forked. .#/(:. Sp. 5. p. 143. Ic. t. 115. 



Hab. N. W. Himalayas (up to 8,000 ft.) and Pekin. Veins sometimes anastomosing 

 towards the edge. 



19. G. rufa, Desv. ; st. tufted, 4-12 in. 1., firm, erect, chesnut-brown, clothed 

 with soft spreading hairs ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 3-5 in. br., simply pinnate ; pinnce 

 distant, stalked, rounded or cordate at the base, 1-2^ in. 1., -1 in. br., acute or 

 bluntish, the edge entire ; texture herbaceous ; castaneous rachis pilose, and both 

 sides slightly so ; veins close, forked, or the lower ones subpinnate, the narrow 

 sori running along all of them all over the surface. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 145. Neuro- 

 gramme, Link. 



Hab. West Indies and Panama southward to the Amazon Valley and Peru. 

 *** F rona bipinnatifid or bipinnate. Sp. 20-35. 



- 20. G. cordata, Schlecht ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., glossy, ebeneous, more or less 

 scaly ; fr. 3-6 in. L, 1^-2 in. br., ovate-lanceolate, bipinnatifid ; pinnce oblong, 

 with a broad centre and suborbicular deeply -toothed lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 veins flabellate ; upper surface naked, lower densely coated with ovate acuminate 

 ferruginous scales ; sori linear, ultimately subconfluent. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 131. 



Hab. Cape Colony to Bourbon and Angola. The less-divided forms resemble 

 Asplenium Ceterach in habit. 



21 . G. Pozoi, Kunze ; st. tufted, slender, clothed with soft brownish spreading 

 hairs ; fr. 2-3 in. 1,, 1 in. br., ovate-oblong, bipinnatifid ; pinnce oblong-deltoid, 

 unequal-sided, - in. each way, with a few deep blunt lobes, and obliquely 

 truncate at the base on the lower side ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and both 

 sides clothed with long soft hairs like the stem .; veins flabellate ; sori linear. 

 Hk. Ic. t. 935. Hemionitis, Lag. Grammitis hispanica, Cosson. j3, G. rutcefolia, 

 Hk. & Gr. Ic. t. 90 ; fr. larger and stouter, some of the hairs glandular. Ilk. 

 Sp. 5. p. 137. y, G. papaverifolia, Kze. ; pinnce cut down to the rachis into 

 roundish or spathulate lobes, with a space between them, the lowest sometimes 

 slightly toothed. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 138. 



Hab. a, Spain ; (3, Australia and New Zealand ; y, Chili. 



