476 PELLEA. 



surfaces naked, dull-green, or the lower slightly farinose ; barren segm. denti- 

 culate ; inv. narrow, soon hidden by sorus. Kuhn. Linn, 36. p. 82. 



Hab. Ceylon, Gardner, Thwaites, 1321. 



28*. C. Kuhnii, Milde ; st. 1^-3 in. 1., tufted, naked, castaneous; basal scales 

 ovate ; fr. 3-6 in. 1., l|-l| in. br., lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; pinnae sessile, deltoid, 

 subdistant, the lowest remote, and rather reduced ; pinnl. oblong, cut down to a 

 narrow wing into blunt lobes ; texture thin ; rachis and both sides finely glan- 

 duloso-pilose. Fil. Eur. p. 35. 



Hab. China, Fische): Smaller and less cut than sulvillosa, with glandular pubescence. 



35*. C. contigua, Baker; st. 4-8 in. 1., tufted, naked, castaneous ; fr. deltoid, 

 6-8 in. 1., 3-4-pinnatifid ; rachises clothed with short white bristly hairs ; lower 

 pinnce distant, short-stalked, deltoid, lowest largest, produced on lower side ; 

 lower pinnl. short-stalked, close, lanceolate-deltoid ; final lobes blunt, close 

 obovate-cuneate, ^-1 lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces dull-green, the 

 lower slightly pilose ; veins immersed, obscure ; inv. narrow. 



Hab. Port Darwin, N. Australia, R. Schomburgh (1869), No. 35. Distinguished from 

 tenuifolia by its rigid texture, pilose rachises, and crowded obovate-cuneate segments. 



35*. G.flexuosa, Kze. ; st. tufted, naked, castaneous, 2-4 in. 1. ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., 

 deltoid, tripinnate ; pinnce and pinnl. lanceolate, short-stalked, lowest largest ; 

 segm. flattish, ovate-oblong, blunt, sessile, 1-1^ lin. br., obscurely repand ; texture 

 membranous ; surfaces dull-green, obscurely glanduloso-pubescent ; sori 6-8 to 

 largest segment ; inv. firm, glabrous. Baker, Fl. Bras.fasc. 49. p. 391. t. 57. 



Hab. Goyaz, Brazil, Pohl, Riedel. 



60*. C. aurea, Baker ; st. tufted, castaneous, 2-3 in. 1., with dense ovate acu- 

 minate brown scales near the base ;/r. deltoid, 3-4 in. 1., 3-4-pinnatifid ; pinna, del- 

 toid, lowest much largest, produced below with lowest pinnl. 1 in. 1., cut down to 

 rachis into blunt entire or pinnatifid segm. ; texture herbaceous ; under surface 

 densely coated with bright-yellow powder ; inv. broad, membranous. 



Hab. Guatemala, Salvin and Godman. 



XXX.-PELL^A. Page 144153. 



2*. P. Pearcei, Baker ; st. tufted, castaneous, 2-3 in. 1., without basal scales ; 

 fr. lanceolate, 3-4 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., bipinnatifid ; compound pinnce 5-6-jugate, 

 deltoid, sessile, lowest distant, rather reduced, cut down below nearly to rachis ; 

 pinnl. 2-3-jugate, oblong-entire, 1-1 1 lin. br., lowest narrowed at base ; texture 

 membranous ; surfaces glabrous, naked ; inv. pale, distinct, glabrous, crisped, 

 with close, fine, indentations. 



Hab. Andes, ElVolcan, 6,000 ft., Pearce. Very near Breweri, but pinnae more com- 

 pound, and dense fibrillose basal scales absent. 



5*. P. microphylla, Fee ; st. tufted, very slender, naked, ebeneous, ^-1| in. 1. ; 

 fr. roundish, ^-^ in. 1., palmately 5-fid, the lobes blunt, 1-2 lin. br., central 

 longest, lowest much shortest ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces dull-green, naked ; 

 midribs black ; veins hidden ; inv. narrow, firm, glabrous, crisped. Fil. Bras, 

 p. 43. t. k.fig. 2. P. Glaziovii, Baker, Fil. Bras. fasc. 49. p. 595. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Glaziou, 3158, 4391. 



11*. P. Foumieri, Baker; st. terete, pale, fulvous, clothed with reflexed, 

 acute, fulvous scales ; fr. fa ft. 1., deltoid, bipinmite ; pinnce stalked, alternate, 



