CHEILANTHES. 475 



55*. A. tetragonuin, Schrad. ; st, 1 ft. or more 1., slightly pubescent, like the 

 rachises ; fr. pedato-tripinnate, 1 ft. 1., 15-18 in. br. ; end pinnce lanceolate, 6-9 

 in.]., 5-6 in.br.; segm, distinctly stalked, lanceolate, acuminate, ascending, 

 2^-3 in. 1., slightly lobed, rounded on the upper, cuneate-truncate on the lower 

 side at the base; surfaces glabrous, deep-green ; sori short, linear, placed all 

 down both sides at the tip of the lobes. Mart. Ic. Crypt, t. 63. Hk. tip. Fd. II. 

 p. 28. 



Hab. Brazil. 



XXV. CHEILANTHES. Page 131142. 



1*. C. Lindigii, Mett. ; st. densely tufted, 1-4 in. 1., castaneous, naked ; fr. 

 lanceolate, 4-8 in. 1., f-1 in. br., narrowed from the middle to both ends, bipin- 

 natifid ; pinnce sessile, deltoid, cut down below to a narrow wing into oblong, 

 blunt pinnl. ; rachis naked ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces naked, pale, dull-green ; 

 sori close, 6-8 to lowest pinnules. Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 218. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Lindig, 257. 



7*. C. Lidgatii, Baker ; rhizome creeping ; st. naked, 1 ft. 1., stramineous like 

 rachises ;fr. deltoid, 1^-2 ft. 1. ; lowest pinnce largest, with three deeply pinnatifid 

 pinnl. from lower side, all the others lanceolate, 1^-2 in. br., cut down to a narrow 

 wing into close ligulate blunt lobes 3-4 lin. br., barren slightly toothed ; texture 

 rigidly coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; inv. f lin. br., crowded, glab/ous, rigid, per- 

 sistent. Schizopteris Lidgatii, Hilkbrand MSS. 



Hab. Oahu, Hillelrand.Very distinct, with habit resembling Woodwardia radicms. 



8*. C. propinqua, Mett. ; st. 3-6 in. 1., naked, black like rachis ; fr. 8-10 in. 1., 

 deltoid, acuminate, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce largest, lanceolate, short-stalked, 

 3 in. 1., 1 in. br. ; pinnl. distinct, subsessile, lanceolate, blunt, cut down nearly 

 to rachis below into close blunt lobes ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces dull pale- 

 green, naked ; sori minute, crowded. Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 219. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Lindig, 93. 



9*. C. glandulosa, Sw. ; fr. 2 ft. or morel., lax, 4-pinnatifid ; racJds filiform, 

 flexuose, pubescent, subscandent ; pinnce stalked, deltoid, 3 in. 1., curved upwards, 

 distant ; pinnl. ovate-lanceolate, unequal-sided, sessile ; segm. cuneate- ovate, 

 inciso-pinnatifid, with ligulate lobes ; surfaces glanduloso-pilose ; sori very 

 minute. Mett. Cheil. t. 3. fig. 32. 



Hab. Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraes, Freyreiss. 

 



14*. C. Boivini, Mett. ; rhizome short-creeping ; scales lanceolate, black, with 

 a brown edge ; st. 1-2 in. 1., castaneous ; fr. ovate-oblong, obtuse, bipinnatifid, 

 2 in. 1. ; rachis pilose ; pinnce oblong, obtuse, lowest largest, free, produced on 

 lower side with obtuse lobes, the sterile ones quite entire ; texture membranous ; 

 under surface glabrous, upper puberulous ; veins many times forked, those of 

 the sterile frond stopping short of the edge ; sori close ; inv. broad, pale, mem- 

 branous. Kuhn, Fil. Aft: p. 69. 



Hab. Mascaren and Comoro Isles. 



27*. C. Thwaitesii, Mett. ; st. densely tufted, castaneous, 1-5 in. J., sparsely 

 clothed with spreading brown lanceolate scales ; fr. lanceolate, -1 ft. 1., I!-:.' A 

 in. br., bipinnate or tripinnatifid ; rachis castaneous, naked, or slightly scaly 

 below ; pinnce distant, subsessile, lanceolate-deltoid, lower reduced ; pinnt. 

 blunt, upper adnate, entire, lower free, lanceolate, bluntly lobed ; texture thin; 



