10-2 IIYMENOPHYLLUM. 



With tbo liist, ou the aullmiity ol" Kuiize, the Bourhon and Muuriliiis 

 Il.fumarioides agrees, for lie says it is the same with Cape specimens of 

 Drege. The //. auslrule of Willdenow is probably also identical. In the 

 usnal state of the j)lant, with short primary divisions, the se£!;ments are 

 mostly secnnd, from the upper side, but sometimes there is a clifTerent ap- 

 pearance. In one of two specimens of Mr. Cuminfr's n. \',i, the fronds are 

 ovate, tripiimatifid, but it is barren and may perhaps prove distinct. His 

 II. 15 has at first sight a very diftcrent appearance, bearing long narrow 

 branches or primary divisions, each resembling the more usual form of 

 the entire plant ; it is also more rigid and wiry. It must be confessed that 

 the species is a very variable one. 



49. II. hadiinn. Hook, ct Grev. ; fronds broadly oblong 

 lanceolate obtuse bipinnalifid, the segments short oblong 

 spreading entire obtuse, the lower ones of the primary divi- 

 sions bifid, involucres few solitary on short lateral segments 

 sessile free orbiculari-reniform convex 2-valved to the very 

 base, quite entire, stipes vi^inged in the upper half Hook, et 

 Grcv. Ic. Fil. t. 76, {not Hall. Cat. n. 172). 



Hal). East Indies, Dr. Wullich, probably from Nepal. — All my individu- 

 als are of a rich brown colour, the segments short and very broad. The 

 fructifications rare, orbicular, approaching to reniform. Our specimens 

 were received and published in the ' Icones Filicum ' before Dr. Wallich 

 ajtpears to have drawn out his celebrated ' Catalogue ;' — and the species 

 there noted (but with a mark of doubt as this, n. 172) is H. jjoli/cmthos. 



50. H. caudicuratnni, Mart.; tall erect, fronds lanceolate or 

 ovato-lanceolate acuminate tripinnatifid somewhat glossy, pri- 

 mary divisions lanceolate and as well as the apex of the frond 

 long-caudate especially in the sterile fronds, secondary remote 

 often simple, segments short broadly linear entire spreading 

 obtuse or emarginate, involucres supraaxillary large orbicular 

 free sessile or on very short segments 2-valved to the base 

 compressed entire or slightly erose, rachis prominent from the 

 very broad wings, stipes slender terete broadly winged wings 

 dccurrent almost to the base. — Mart. PL Crypt. Bras. p. 102, 

 /. ()7, e.vccUent. — /3. wing of the stipes broader and as well as 

 that of the rachis undulato-crisped. 



Ilab. Brazil, Martins, Sellow; Organ Mountains, Gardner, n.2\\. Chi- 

 loe, Cumincj, n. 4. — )3. Chiloc, Darwin. — Plant from 8 — 14 inches high. 

 Habit and general appearance similar to those of H. fuciforme, but truly 

 distinct, smaller, narrower and less divided, with a more slender stipes and 

 rachis, and hence less rigid. The involucres too are widely diiferent, large 

 and orbicular. Our Chilian specimens are more elongated, rather less di- 

 vided, and of a paler color. In the Brazilian ones the fructifications are 

 more copious (indeed exceedingly abundant, reaching to the apex of the 

 frond) and then the ultimate segment is abbreviated ; otherwise forming a 

 long caudate point. 



51. \\.^/imhrialti)n, J. 8m. ; fronds erect ovate subacumi- 

 nate tripinnati/id, the segments simi)le or bifid linear obtu.se 



