505 



10. P. (Phcg.) lamgattau, Baker; st. and rachis purplish, naked, shining; 

 fr. lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 1^ ft. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnae numerous, lax, opposite, 

 patent, l|-2 in. 1., 6-8 lin. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close blunt 

 lobes, lower pinnae much reduced, distant ; basal lobes scarcely reduced ; texture 

 chartaceous ; surfaces glabrous, light-green ; veins 5-6-jugate ; sori suboblong. 

 Phegopteris, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 112. 



Hab. Peru, Lecnler, 2628. 



35*. P. (1'heg.) hirsutum, Sw. ; st. tufted, 3-4 in., clothed like rachis with 

 dense spreading linear-subulate scales ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., oblong-lanceolate, tripin- 

 natifid ; pinnae subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 15-20-jugate, \-\ in. br., lowest not 

 reduced ; pinnl. close, lanceolate, sessile, inciso-pinnatifid with blunt lobes ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces, especially the lower, with fibrillose scales ; veins 

 simple or forked in the tertiary lobes; sori medial. Baker, Fil. Bras. p. 503. 

 t. &.. 1. 



Eab. Minas Geraes, Brazil. 



36*. P. (Pheg.) tarapotense, Baker ; st. 1 ft. or more, stout, brown, clothed 

 with large brown lanceolate scales, with a sudden grey edge ; fr. 2-2^ ft. 1., 

 1 ft. br., oblong-deltoid, tripinnatifid ; pinnae lanceolate, lowest largest, short- 

 stalked, 1^ in. or., cut down to rachis into adnate lanceolate entire or crenate 

 bluntish pinnl. 3-4 lin. br. ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces dark-green, 

 rather pilose on ribs ; veins pinnate in lower tertiary segments ; sori mostly 

 1 -serial, midway between midrib and edge of pinnules. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruce, 4656. 



50*. P. (Pheg.) paleaceum, Powell ; st. 1-3 ft., grey, clothed like rachis with 

 small adpressed linear scales, those near the base large, more spreading ; 

 fr. deltoid, 1^-2 ft. each way, 4-pinnatifid ; lower pinnce much largest, deltoid, 

 long-stalked, unequal-sided, central lanceolate, with close lanceolate sessile or 

 short-stalked pinnl. 1-1^ in. br., cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final 

 lobes lanceolate, ascending, bluntish, 1-1| lin. br. ; texture moderately firm ; 

 surfaces green, glabrous, the ribs below slightly scaly ; veins pinnate in final 

 lobes ; sori copious, medial. 



Hab. Samoa, Rev. T. Powell, 161. Eesembling Neplirodium amplum in general habit. 



56*. P. (Cyrt.) liforme, Baker ; st. Ij ft., stramineous, sparsely scaly like 

 rachis ; basal scales f in. 1., lanceolate, ferruginous ; fr. 2 ft. 1., oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, simply pinnate ; pinnce many, spreading, ligulate-acuminate, bluntly 

 lobed, sterile 6-7 in. 1., 1 in. br., fertile smaller, i-f in. br., lowest stalked, 

 base on upper side truncate, on lower subcordate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 light-green, glabrous except ribs above ; veins in pinnated groups with 4-6-jugate 

 veinlets, lower not reaching edge, free or joining as in Goniopteris ; sori near 

 main veins. Phegopteris biformis, Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. p. 121. 



Hab. Madagascar, Bourbon, and Mayotte, 



68*. P. (Goniop.) Ifillii, Baker ; st. 6-9 in., grey, densely pilose like rachis ; 

 fr. subdeltoid, 1 ft. each way, simply pinnate ; pinnce 4-jugate, opposite, sessile, 

 ligulate-oblong, 5-6 in. 1., 2 in. br., deeply crenate, cuneately narrowed on both 

 sides at the base ; texture thick, not at all rigid ; surfaces dull-green, densely 

 softly grey- pubescent ; main veins erecto-patent, 2 lines apart ; veinlets 10-12- 

 jugate ; sori close to main veins. 



Hab. Queensland, Hill. 



75*. P. (Goniop.) ezcclsitm, Baker; arborescent, the trunk sometimes 30 feet 



