65. ANP:MIA, EU ANEMIA. 431 



GEN. 65. ANEMIA, Sw. 



Caps, small, very abundant, forming a copiously-branched panicle quite 

 distinct from the leafy part of the frond. A well-marked genus, almost confined^ 

 to Tropical America. TAB. VIII. fig. 65. 



Euanemia. Panicle and leafy portion united in the same frond ; veins free. 

 Sp'. 1-18. Fig. 650. 



* Pinnce of barren segment entire or nearly so. Sp. 1-12. 

 t Barren segment lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong. Sp. 1-8. 



A. Pinnce 6-8 or less on each side. Sp. 1-3. 



1. A. Gardneri, Hk. ; st. 3-4 in. 1., firm, erect, naked ; barren segm. short- 

 stalked, 4 in. 1., 2^ in. br., with 4 imbricated nearly round pinnce on each side, 

 the lowest 1 in. br., short-stalked, the edge crenulate ; texture coriaceous ; rachis 

 and both sides naked; veins quite flabellate; panicle 2 in. 1., with elongated 

 spreading lower branches, the peduncle about equalling it. Hk. Ic. 1. 190 (not 

 A. Gardneriana, Presl). 



Hab. South Brazil, Gardner 4. 



2. K. filiformis, Presl ; st. 1-3 in. 1., slender, slightly villose ; barren segm. ses- 

 sile, 3-4 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., with 6-8 sessile linear-obovate pinnce on each side, 

 which are 2-3 lin. br., with nearly their own breadth between them, the edge 

 rather deeply toothed ; texture almost herbaceous ; rachis and surfaces finely 

 villose ; veins flabellate ; panicle 2-3 in. 1., the branches short, with a peduncle 

 3 or 4 times its own length. A. dentata, Gardner. 



Hab. Mexico and West Indies to Brazil. This may be a variety of the next, with 

 which it coincides in its short stem and very long peduncle ; but the texture is much less 

 coriaceous, and the pinnae are narrower and distinctly toothed. Mettenius refers the 

 synonym of A. filiformis, Swartz, to our A. Breuteliana. 



3. A. oblongifolia, Sw. ; st. 2-4 in. 1., firm, erect, slightly villose ; barren segm. 

 sessile, 3-4 in. 1., \\ in. br., simply pinnate, with 6-8 pairs of sessile pinnce^ which 

 are oblong, blunt, subentire, the base on the upper side parallel with the stem, on 

 the lower obliquely truncate ; texture coriaceous ; rachis and surfaces finely vil- 

 lose ; veins flabellate ; panicle 1-2 in. 1., the lower branches short, the peduncle 

 5-6 in. 1. SchJc. t. 142.-j3, A. humilis, Sw. ; smaller, pinnce close, 3-4 only on 

 each side. A. Seemanni, Hk. Lond. Journ. 7. t. 16. 



Hab. Mexico to Brazil and Peru. A. pilosa, Presl (A. pumila, Klotzsch), appears to 

 be a form intermediate between our two varieties. Characterized by its close coriaceous 

 Dinnae and barren segment nearly equal in width throughout. 



B. Pinnce more than 6-8 on each side. Sp. 4-8. 



4. A. Dregeana, Kze. ; st. 8-12 in. 1., firm, slightly villose ; barren segm. sub- 

 sessile, 8-12 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., about equal in width in the lower half, with 8-12 

 pinnce on each side, which are 1-1^ in. 1., ^-| in. br., ovate-deltoid, unequal at 



he base, the upper side subcordate, the edge inciso-crenate ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis and surfaces finely villose, a distinct midrib often halfway to the apex ; 

 panicle 3-4 in. L, the lower branches elongated, on a peduncle about as long as 

 itself. Kze. t. 20. Hk. Ic. t. 236. 



Hab. Natal ; and a plant collected by Seemann in N. W. Mexico, referred in Bot. 

 Herald, to .4. collina, is so near this that we do not venture to separate them. 



