496 NEPHRODIUM. 



suhfalcate lobes 2-2 lin. br. ; texture firm, membranous ; surfaces naked, bright- 

 green ; veins 9-12-jugate, very distinct ; sori small, medial ; inv. minute, fuga- 

 cious. FL Bras.fasc. 49. p. 474. Aspidium, Kze. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Gardner, 16 ; Lieut. Carr. 



39*. N. (Last.) Gardnerianum, Baker ; st. % ft., slender, grey, glabrous ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, f-1 ft. 1. ; rachis grey, slender, finely downy ; 

 pinnce subdistant, lanceolate, lower subsessile, much reduced at base, 2|-3 in. 1., 

 f-f in. br., lowest deflexed, cut down to abroad wing into close subacute entire 

 lobes 2 lin. br. ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces finely downy on ribs, glossy, 

 dull-green ; veins 8-9-jugate, very distinct ; sori small, medial ; inv. glabrous, 

 persistent. FL Bras, fasc. 49. p. 474. Aspidium, Kze. MSS. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Gardner, 190. 



49*. N. (Last.) FunJcii, Baker ; short st. and rachis densely pubescent and 

 clothed throughout with firm spreading, linear, dark-brown scales ; fr. lan- 

 ceolate, 1 ft. 1., 2-2^ in. br. at middle, bipinnatifid ; pinnce sessile, lanceolate, 

 bluntish, truncate at base, central 1 j in. 1., in. br., cut down to a narrow wing 

 into subentire blunt lobes 1 lin. br., many lower reduced gradually ; texture 

 moderately firm ; surfaces rather downy, and midrib beneath scaly ; veins 

 5-6-jugate; sori supra-medial ; inv. minute, fugacious. Aspidium, Mett. Fil. 

 Nov. Gran. p. 54. 



Hab. New Granada, Funk, 502 ; Lindig, 239. 



49*. N. (Last.) rigidulum. Baker ; st. 2-4 in., tufted, grey, naked ; basal 

 scales lanceolate, dull-brown ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 12-15 in. 1., 

 4-5 in. br. ; rachis grey, finely downy ; pinnce sessile, ligulate-caudate, narrowed 

 below middle, but dilated and truncate at base, central 2|-3 in. 1., ^ in. br., cut 

 down to a narrow wing into ascending blunt entire lobes, 1-1 j lin. br., lower 

 distant and much reduced ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked, 

 bright-green ; sori supra-medial ; inv. distinct, densely bristly. Aspidium, 

 Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 109. 



Hab. Cuba, C. Wright, 820. 



49*. N. (Last.) Ptarmica, Baker ; st. 4-5 in., reddish-brown, with a few lan- 

 ceolate scales near base ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, 1 ft. 1., 4-5 in. br., bipinnatifid ; 

 rachis brown, naked ; pinnce ligulate-caudate, many lower short-stalked, with 

 basal lobes reduced, central 2^-3 in. 1., ^ in. br., lowest distant and much reduced, 

 cut down to a narrow wing into close bluntish ascending entire lobes 1 lin. br. ; 

 texture firm but thin ; surfaces naked ; .veins 5-6-jugate ; sori medial, ratlin- 

 large ; inv. minute, fugacious. FL Bras. fasc. 49. p. 479. Aspid. Kzc. Melt. 

 Aspid. p. 80. 



Hab. South Brazil. Like some of the forms sf contcrminum, but many lower pinnsa 

 stalked and reduced at base. 



49*. N. (Last.) Fischeri, Baker; st. 2-3 in. 1., tufted, like rachis naked 

 stramineous ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 6-8 in. 1., 2^-3 in. br. ; pinnce 

 short-stalked, central 1 in. 1., in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close 

 entire blunt lobes 1-1-J lin. br., lowest distant, much reduced ; texture thin, 

 but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; veins 5-6-jugate ; sori, medial ; inv. persistent, 

 glabrous. FL Bras.fasc. 49. p. 479. Aspid. Mett. 



Hab. Brazil. 



49*. N. (Last.) microbasis, Baker ; caud. erect ; st. short, grey, naked ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 1^ ft. 1., 5-6in.br.; rachis densely pubescent 



