52. GYMNOGRAMME, EUGYMNOGRAMME. 381 



29. G. Ottonis, Klotzsch ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1., glossy, wiry, ebeneous ; fr. 

 5-8 in. 1., 1 in. br., bipinnate ; pinnce distant, the lowest ^ in. 1., J in. br. ; 

 pinnl. suborbicular, entire or slightly cleft ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachia 

 ebeneous ; both sides naked ; veins flabellate ; sori irregular, of few capsules. 

 Hk. Sp. 5. p. 128. 



Hab. Venezuela, Otto, 630. 



30. G. Lindigii, Mett. ; st. 1-4 in. 1., castaneous, hispid, glossy ; fr. 4-9 in. 1., 

 -H in. br., flexuose, bipinnatifid or bipinnate ; pinnce ^-f in. 1., ovate-oblong or 

 subaeltoid, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis on each side into 3-8 ovate- 

 rhomboidal or roundish imbricated lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and 

 both sides hispid ; veins not reaching the edge. Mett. Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 210. 



Hab. New Granada, Lindig. This and the six preceding are closely allied. 



31. G. decipiens, Mett. ; st. subtufted, 6-9 in. 1., wiry, dark chesnut-brown, 

 naked ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., deltoid, bipinnatifid ; pinnce imbricated, 

 stalked, the lowest the largest, 1-1 in. 1., \-^ in. br., lanceolate-deltoid, obliquely 

 truncate at the base below, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into cuneate 

 or oblong entire or toothed lobes ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and both sides 

 naked ; veins flabellate ; sori linear, conspicuous. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 132. t. 291. 



Hab. Aneiteum and New Caledonia. Resembles Asplenium marinum in habit. 



32. G-. ferruginea, Kze. ; st. tufted, 6-12 in. ]., stout and densely clothed with 

 ferruginous woolly tomentum ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 3-4 in. br., ovate-lanceolate, 

 bipinnate ; pinnce 2-3 in. L, \-\ in. br., cut down to the rachis below into oblong 

 or linear-oblong entire or slightly toothed lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper 

 surface naked ; lower and rachis densely coated with tomentum ; veins flabellate ; 

 sori lax, simple or forked. /3, G. lanata, Klotzsch ; less woolly beneath ; pinnl. 

 larger, and the lower ones bluntly lobed halfway down. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 130. 



Hab. Peru ; and gathered also by Seeman in Panama. 



33. G. Haughtoni, Hk. MSS. ; st. densely tufted, 1-2 in. 1., black, glossy ; fr. 

 3-4 in. L, 1-1| in. br., ovate-lanceolate, bipinnate ; pinnce close, the central ones 

 lanceolate-deltoid, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis below into suborbicular 

 irregularly crenated lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; veins flabellate ; colour dark- 

 green, only the lower surface slightly scaly ; sori oblong, thick, at last often 

 filling up nearly the whole surface. G. cordata, Hk. Sp. 5. p. 131. (in part). 

 2nd Cent. t. 1. 



Hab. St. Helena. Perhaps should be joined with G. cordata, from which it differs by 

 being more deeply cut and hardly at all scaly. 



34. G. HooJceri, J. Sm. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1., firm, dark chesnut-brown, 

 glossy, clothed when young with ferruginous tomentum ; fr. 9-15 in. 1., 4-5 in. 

 br., oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate ; pinnce numerous, lanceolate, cut down to the 

 rachis into entire or slightly toothed linear-oblong pinnl., the longest J- in. 1., 

 with enrolled edges and about their own breadth between them ; texture coria- 

 ceous ; upper surface and castaneous rachis naked ; lower clothed with ferru- 

 ginous tomentum. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Purdie, Schlim 609, and Bolivia, Mandori 1 547. 

 Habit of 0. ochracea, but the under surface and young stems coated with ferruginous 

 tomentum, and not powdery. 



35. G. javanica, Blume ; rhizome creeping ; st. naked, glossy, 1-4 ft. 1. ; fr. 

 1-4 ft. 1., varying from 1 to 2 pinnate; pinnl. sessile or slightly stalked, 3-12 

 in. 1., ^-3 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, the apex acuminate, the edge entire or finely 

 toothed ; texture firm-herbaceous ; rachis stramineous, and both sides glossy, 



