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cnstaneous ; rachis flexuose ; fr. 15 in. 1., 2-3| in. br., lanceolate, 3-4-pinnatifid ; 

 pinnce distant, stalked, 3-4 in. 1., lanceolate"-deltoid, reflexed, falcate, obtuse; 

 pinnl. stalked, spreading or reflexed, obtuse, oblique-ovate ; scgm. few, obovate 

 or oblong, lowest nearly free, pinnatifid ; texture rigidly subconaceous ; surfaces 

 both pilose ; sori falling short of the edge. Kuhn, Linn. 86. p. 70. 



Hab. Central Brazil, St. Hilaire. 



49*. G. dccomposita, Baker; st. 1 ft., naked, castaneous, with deciduous yellow 

 meal, like slightly-flexuose rachis ; fr. lanceolate-deltoid, 1^ ft. 1., 1 ft. br., 4-5- 

 pinnatifid ; pinnce close, lanceolate, stalked, lowest largest ; pinnl. close, stalked, 

 patent, deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final lobes linear, 1-nerved, 

 acute, upper simple, lower 3-4-nate flabellate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 bright-green, glabrous, lower scattered over with yellow meal ; sori slender, con- 

 fluent where the lobes join, running up into them. 



Hab. Hort. Kew, probably Andinc. 



49'"". G- Orliynyana, Mett. ; fr. ample, subscandent, 4-pinnatifid ; rachis flex- 

 iiose, castaneous ; pinnce patent, ovate-oblong, above 1 ft. 1. ; pinnl. stalked, ovate- 

 oblong, lower reflexed ; lower segm. reflexed, stalked, ovate-oblong, obtuse ; final 

 lobes obovate, blunt ; texture membranous, flaccid ; both surfaces setulose ; veins 

 flabellate, several times dichotomous ; sori medial. Kuhn, Linn. 30. p. 70. 



, Hab. Andes of Bolivia, D'Orligny, 174, 299. 



49"'. G. prchcnsibilis, Baker ; fr. ample, scandent, 4-5-pinnatifid ; rachis cas- 

 taneous, naked, those of the pinnae remarkably zigzag ; lower pinna? long-stalked, 

 oblong-lanceolate, f-1 ft. 1. ; lower pinnl. much reflexed, distinctly-stalked, lan- 

 ceolate-deltoid, 4-5 in. 1., upper patent ; final lobes close, 3-4 lin. br., patent, 

 cuneate-flabdlate, {-| in. br., shallowly incised ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces 

 green, under with a few scattered bristles ; veins flabellate, distinctly raised. 



Hab. Andes of Sandillano, 8-9000 ft.,Pearce. 



- GG*. G. (Sell.) abyssinica, Baker ; rhizome wide-creeping ; scales grey,membranous, 

 lanceolate, clathrate ; fr. simple, lanceolate, 1 ft. 1., ^-f in. br., narrowed to point 

 and gradually to a short compressed stipe ; texture subcoriaceous, not at all rigid ; 

 surfaces green, naked ; areolce long and narrow, 3-4-serial between midrib and 

 edge exappendiculate ; sori linear-oblong, 3-4 lin, 1., near the midrib distant from 

 one another, slightly oblique. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Schimptr, Xo. llio of collection of 1863-8. 



00. G. (Sell.) Naingayi, Baker ; st. ] J ft., dull-brown, naked ; fr. deltoid, 

 under 1 ft. 1., with 5 oblong-lanceolate pinnce, the end one largest, 5-6 in. 1., 18-21 

 lin. br., slightly repand, narrowed gradually at base, the lowest pair distant ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; main veins distinct to edge, -\ in. apart ; 

 areolce copious, minute, with free included veins ; sori very copious, minute, irre- 

 gular, punctiform or confluent in lines or curves. 



Hab. Malacca, Maine/ay, 1809. 



LVL VITTARTA. Page 395 G. 



3*. V. pnmila, Mett. ; rhizome short ; scales under $ in., lanceolate-subulate, 

 toothed at base ; fr. linear, 1^-2 in. 1., in. br., obtuse, narrowed at base, with 

 edge much reflexed ; texture coriaceous ; veins entirely immersed, distant, oblique, 

 the -midrib very prominent, truncate, not dilated at the base ; sori hidden b^ 

 involute edge, medial between midrib and margin. Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. G7. 



Hab. Borneo, Wallace. 



