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Uab. Lofty mountains of Java, lilume. — "Appears to diffev from (i. Ja- 

 vanica, Spr. {Merlensia IcBvigata, Willd.) in the sliorter and more obtuse 

 segments of the frond, glaucous beneath." May not this be G . Jlmjcllaris P 



32. G. bifurcatay lil.; "stipes dichotomous subpaleaceous 

 plane above, fronds biiurcate or dichotomous deej)ly pinnati- 

 fid even on the dichotomy (of the branches) of tlie stipes de- 

 current submembranaceous green beneath, segments Hnear 

 obtuse or abrupt and emarginate downy on the costa beneath, 

 rachis beneath sparingly paleaceous." Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 250. 

 — &. plant everywhere quite glabrous. G. bifurcata, J. Sm. 

 Enum. PL Pltilipji. hi Hook. Journ. of Bat. v. iii. p. 420, 



Hab. Java, on the niounUiin Buran<>rang, Blumc. — ^. INIalaeca, Cuming, 

 H. 377. S. America, in the Caracas, Linden, n. 77. — It is extremely difficult, 

 without authentic specimens or figures, to determine the exact species in- 

 tended by autliors of this genus. Mr. J. Smith may be correct in referring 

 Cuming's plant (w. 377) from Malacca, hither: but as my specimens at 

 least have not the slightest trace of down, I have ventured to make a vari- 

 ety of it, and even to consider a Glexchenia distributed in Linden's collec- 

 tions from Caracas to be the same. It differs from Cuming's specimens 

 only in being larger, taken, it would appear, from a more vigorous plant. — 

 Of the original species of Blume, that author observes that it differs from 

 his G. vcstila in the segments of the fronds not being decurrent upon the 

 branches, in their being narrower, longer and of a thinner texture, and in 

 the rachis being sparingly chaffy. 



33. G. hirta, Bl.; " stipes dichotomous nearly round, branch- 

 es slightly compressed, fronds dichotomous deeply pinnatifid 

 even on tlie dichotomy (of the branchlets) half-deciuTent co- 

 riaceous glaucous beneath, segments linear obtuse serrulate 

 at the apex cobwebby and (sub)-tomentose at tlie costa be- 

 neath, rachis with chaffy hairs, capsules 3 — 5 subglobose ses- 

 sile." Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 250. 



Hab. Woody mountains of the Moluccas, Blume. 



34. G. rujinerris, Mart.; " stijie rounded, frond repeatedly 

 dichotomous glabrous beneath, petioles roimded a})terous, seg- 

 ments from a broad base linear, the costa beneath clothed with 

 rusty down, capsules (short pyrifonn) beneath the tomcntum 

 6—8." Mart. Crypt. Brazil, p. 111. 



Hab. Minas Geraes, Brazil, Freireiss, (Mart.) — The above is all the ac- 

 count that Martins has given of this plant. 



§ III. Stipes simple and bearing simply forked ■pinncB (see Tab. V. A.J; or 

 dichotomous, the branches zigzag, bearing alternate branchlets each with 

 simply forked, or only one pair of, pinna:. Segments never decurrent. 



35. G .{Mertensia) f/lni/ce,sceii,<i,ViiW(\.; stipes terete, branch- 

 lets with a decurrent line below the frond each terminated by 

 a pair of lanceolate ]nnnatifid pinna) glabrous or nearly so 

 glaucous beneath, segments linear entire obtuse emarginate, 



