454 HEM1TELIA. 



upper adnate crenate ; texture rigidly coriaceous ; both surfaces naked, green ; 

 veins 8-9-jugate, distant, distinct, forked ; sort barge, filling up nearly the whole 

 space between costa and inflexed edge ; inv. |-1 Ian. br., deep, membranous, 

 persistent, breaking up irregularly. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Richard*. 



55*. C. Lenormandi, Vieill. ; fr. ample, tripinnate ; rachises brown-stra- 

 mineous, naked, rough, with raised points ; pinnae oblong, 1 ft. 1. ; pinnl. crowded, 

 lanceolate, 2-3 in. 1., | in. br., cut down to rachis or a narrow wing, the lower 

 distinctly stalked ; segm. ligulate, obtuse, subentire, in. br. ; texture rigidly 

 coriaceous; surfaces naked, the lower glaucous or green; veins 5-6-jugate, 

 forked ; sort large, filling up the fertile segm., except the very tip ; inv. mem- 

 branous, glabrous, bursting irregularly. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 2249. Resembles closely Dicteonia Eertoocuia in 

 texture and general habit. 



V. HEMITELIA. Page 2729. 



3. Var. H. Klotzschii, Karst. ; pinnce 2^-3 in. br. ; lobes close, shallow, blunt, 

 | in. br. ; veins 5-6-jugate. Etting. Farm. t. 158. fig. 13. 



Hab. Columbia. 



9*. H. venosa, Reich, fil. ; fr. bipinnate ; rachis clothed with ovate-lanceolate 

 scales ; pinnce subsessile, ligulate, acuminate, ^ ft. 1., l in. br., cut down to rachis 

 below into close, spreading, oblong blunt lobes ; lower veinlets once or twice forked ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; sort medial, mostly uniseriate, rarely incompletely bise- 

 riat ; inv. dimidiate, firm, entire. Kuhn, Linncea, 36. p. 161. 



Hab. Caracas, Appun. 



14*. H. rufescens, Mett. ; fr. ample, tripinnate ; rachises pale-brown, those of 

 the pinnae furfuraceous beneath ; basal scales dense, membranous, linear-subulate, 

 |-1 in. 1., pale-brown with a whitish border ; pinnce oblong-deltoid, 12-15 in. 1. ; 

 pinnl. lanceolate, short-stalked, 3-4 in. 1., 1-1 1 in. br., the lower shorter, deflexed ; 

 segm. adnate lanceolate, acute, lower not close, l|-2 lin. br., inciso-crenulate ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; both sides green, the lower slightly scaly on the ribs ; vein- 

 lets 10-12-jugate ; sori large, filling the segments except the tip ; inv. minute, 

 hidden by the dense paraphyses. Kuhn, Linncea, 36. p. 159. 



Hab. Andes of East Pern, Spruce, 4727. 



15*. H. Lindigii, Baker \fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; rachis stramineous, smooth, 

 naked ; pinnce oblong-lanceolate, 1J-2 ft. 1. ; pinnl. sessile, ligulate, 3-4 in. 1., in. 

 br., cut down to a broad wing ; segm. blunt, close, 2 lin. br., distinctly toothed ; 

 texture rigidly coriaceous ; both sides green, naked ; veins 6-8-jugate, forked above 

 the middle ; sori medial, small ; inv. minute, obscure, depressed, glabrous. 



Hab. Andes of Bogota, Lindig, 310. 



15*. II. nigricans, Presl ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; St. grey-stramineous, muri- 

 cated ; basal scales lanceolate, castaneous ; rachises grey, slightly pilose below ; 

 pinnce lanceolate, 12-15 in. 1., 3 in. br. ; pinnl. ligulate, 1^-2 in. 1., f- in. br., 

 cut down to a broad wing, lowest short-stalked ; seqm. in. br., close, blunt, dis- 

 tinctly toothed ; texture moderately firm ; both sides green, the lower obscurely 

 pilose on the main ribs ; reins 4-5-jugate, lower only forked ; sori small, medial ; 

 inv. distinct, half-cupshaped, glabrous. H. obscura, Melt. Karst. Fl. Coliimb. , 



