NEPIIttODIUM. 501 



copiously pinnate in lowest quaternary lobes ; sori medial, middle-sized ; inv. 

 glabrous, fugacious. Aspidium, Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 130. 



Hab. Equatorial Guinea, Curror. 



145*. N. (Last.) flexuosum, Baker ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; primary racMs 

 zigzag, stramineous, clothed with woolly hairs and lanceolate scales ; pinnae 

 oblong-lanceolate, stalked, with less flexuose rachises, central 8-9 in. 1. ; pinnl. 

 close, ligulate, central 2 in. 1., upper sessile, straight, lower short-stalked, deflexed ; 

 segm. oblong, close, blunt ; texture moderately thick ; surfaces green, shortly 

 pubescent, the ribs below rather scaly ; veins p'innate in tertiary segments ; sori 

 medial, minute; inv. glabrous, fugacious. Aspidium, Fee, Fil. Bras. p. 138. 

 t. 47. fig. 2. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Glasiou, 2458. 



148*. N. (Last.) firmifolium, Baker ; st. 1^-2 ft., like rachises, pale-brown, 

 naked ; fr. 2 ft. 1., deltoid, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 

 6-9 in. 1., 2-3 in. br. ; pinnl. ligulate-lanceolate, close, falcate, acute, cuneate- 

 truricate on lower side at base, upper decurrent, lower subsessile, with short 

 close blunt ligulate lobes ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces green, 

 glabrous ; 'veins pinnate in tertiary segments ; sori in a row close to midrib of 

 pinnl., with a few more to lower segm. ; inv, glabrous, fugacious. N. acutum, 

 edit. 1. ex parts. Hk. Sp. t. 271. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruce, 4662. Differs from acutum by its glabrous rachises 

 and much narrower and less deeply-cut pinnules. 



151*. N. (Last.) cubense, Baker ; st. tufted, stramineous, |-1 ft., with large 

 light ferruginous lanceolate scales at and near the base ; fr. oblong-deltoid, 

 1J ft. 1., 4-5-pinnatifid ; many pinnce stalked, lanceolate, 2-3 in. br. ; pinnl. 

 stalked, lanceolate-deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ;_fina.l lobes lan- 

 ceolate or trapezoid, erecto-patent, largest entire sessile under 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 rigidly subcoriaceous ; venules fine, immersed, erecto-patent ; sori minute, infra- 

 medial; inv. glabrous, subpersistent. Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 108. 



Hab. Cuba, Wright, 1099. Like denticulatum, but cutting not nearly so acute. 



152*. N. (Last.) Lepinci, Baker ; fr. 6 ft. 1., quadripinnatifid ; rachis stout; 

 pinnce distinctly stalked, deltoid ; pinnl. short-stalked, oblong-lanceolate ; segm. 

 ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely toothed at the tip, their lobes obtusely 

 toothed ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces glabrous, dull-green ; sori marginal at 

 the end of the teeth. Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 118. 



Hab. Tahiti, Lepine, 81. Marked in the group by its marginal sori, compared by 

 Kuhn to those of N. deparioides. 



153*. N. (Last.) Boivini, Baker; rachises stramineous, naked beneath ;fr. 

 ample, deltoid, 4-pinnatifid ; lower pinnce deltoid, stalked, l ft. }., 1 ft. br., 

 produced on lower side ; pinnl. oblong-lanceolate, stalked, cuneate-truncate on 

 lower side at base ; final lobes close, confluent below, lower oblong, blunt, 

 subentire, J in. br. ; upper subacute, rather falcate ; texture thin but firm ; 

 surfaces dark-green, upper pilose, lower finely scaly on ribs ; veins copiously 

 pinnate in final lobes ; sori copious, middle-sized, submarginal ; inv. fugacious. 



Hab. Madagascar, Boivin. 



153*. N. (Last.) macrostegium, Hk. ; st. 2-3 ft., with many linear brown scales 

 near base ; fr. deltoid, 2 ft. each way, 4-5-pinnatifid ; rachises grey, glossy, 

 naked ; lower pinnce long-stalked, deltoid, produced on lower side ; pinnl. and 

 lower segm. stalked, deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final 



