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** Pinnae pinnatifid or distinctly crenate. Sp. 65-80. 



65. P. (Goniopt.) urophyllum. Wall. ; rhizome creeping ; st. 2 ft. or more 1., 

 stout, erect ; fr. 2-4 ft. or more 1., 12-18 in. br., with a terminal pinna and 

 usually several on each side, which are sometimes 1 ft. 1. and more than 2 ift, 

 br., the edge entire or very slightly Jobed, the apex acuminate, the base truncate 

 or narrowed ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and both sides naked ; veins promi- 

 nent, the veinlets 15-20 on a side, with the sori in two close rows, or sometimes 

 one row only. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 9. 



Hab. N. India to Ceylon, Malaccas, Chusan, Aneiteum, and Queensland. Fe*e has 

 three East-Indian species, Q. rcpanda, crenato-dentata, and Dalhousiana, which we have 

 not seen. This resembles on the one hand Nephrodium glandulosum, and on the other 

 Meniscium cuspidatum, and is very doubtfully distinct from the latter. 



66. P. (Goniopt.) crenatum, Swz. ; st. 1-2 ft. 1., erect, naked or pubescent ; fr. 

 1-2 ft. 1., 1 ft. or more br., with an oblong-lanceolate terminal pinna 6-8 in. 1., 

 1^-2 in. br., the edge nearly entire or a little bluntly lobed, and 2-4 opposite 

 pairs of similar lateral ones ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; veins fine, the main 

 veins 1^-2 lin. apart, and veinlets 6-9 on a side ; rachis and under side naked or 

 finely villose ; sori in rows near the main veins. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 2. 



Hab. Cuba and Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil. Q. Rivvirei, Fee, Fil. Ant. t. 18, 

 appears to belong here. 



67. P. (Goniopt.) Gheisbreghtii, Linden; st. 1 ft. or more 1., firm, erect, 

 densely villose ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., with a terminal pinna 6-9 in. 1., ]^-2 in. br., 

 the edge slightly lobed, and 3-6 similar ones on each side ; texture papyraceous ; 

 racMses and under surface densely villose, the upper surface slightly so ; 

 veinlets about 12 on a side, the sori in dense rows close to the main vein. P. 

 crenatum, Hk. Fil. Ex. t. 84. (not Sw.). Goniopt. mollis, Fee, Fil. Ant. t. 24. 



Hab. Tabasco, S. Mexico, Linden, 1499. We have a single specimen of a closely 

 allied densely villose Goniopteris from Queensland from Mr. Hill, which is probably a new 

 species. 



68. P. (Goniopt.) faucitim, Liebm. ; st. 1 ft. or more 1., firm, erect, naked ; fr 

 12-18 in. 1., 1 ft. or more br., with an oblong-lanceolate terminal pinna 6-8 in. 1., 

 1^ in. br., pinnatifid about one-third of the way down, and several similar but 

 narrower and less deeply lobed ones on each side ; texture coriaceous ; rachis and 

 under surface naked ; veins prominent, 9-12 on a side ; sori in rows close to the 

 main vein. 



Hab. Mexico. 



69. P. (Goniopt.) proliferum, Presl ; rhizome stout, creeping ; st. spreading, 

 naked, 2-8 in. 1. ; fr. 1-2 ft. 1. or more, 6-12 in. br., erect or decumbent, often 

 elongated and rooting at the point and branched copiously from the axils ; 

 pinna? 4-6 in. 1., -f in. br., broadest at the base, truncate or cordate, the edge 

 bluntly lobed more than 1 lin. deep, the point often blunt ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachia and under side naked or slightly pubescent ; veinlets fine, 6-10 on a side ; 

 sori medial, oval, sometimes confluent. Hk. Sp. 5. p. 13. Ampelopteris, Kze. 



Hab. N. India to S. China, Philippines, New Caledonia, N. Australia, Angola, 

 Zambesi-land, and South Africa. 



70. P. (Goniopt.) arthrothrix, Hk. ; st. erect, rather slender, densely villose; 

 fr. about 1 ft. 1., 6-9 in. br. ; lowest pinnce the largest, distinctly stalked, 3-4 in. 

 1., f-f in. br., the edge nearly entire or with slight blunt lobes, the base truncate ; 

 texture herbaceous, rather thick ; rachis and both sides clothed with soft brown 



