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superior margin only 5 — 7 in a sinus or notch of the lobe 

 obovato-reniform large convex thick and hard especially in 

 the disk, stipes and rachis everywhere ebeneous very glossy 

 glabrous. (Tab. LXXXIII. A.) — "A. cardiochl^na, KzeT 

 Sonder in Herb, nosir. An A. polyphyllum, IVilld. Sp. PI. 

 v.p. 454.? — ft. rigidum; pinnules subchartaceous, sori larger 

 thicker and more prominent dark brown. 



Hub. Cavaccas, Moritz, ex Sonder in Herb, nostr., and Miquel, n. 15. 

 Venezuela, Funck, n. 43t). Tvinidad, Aldrid(/e, in Herb. J. Smith. — /3. 

 Caraccas, Linden, n. 125. — A beautiful ami, I tbink, a well-marked spe- 

 cies, and it is a comfort to bave a named specimen to refei to it for its au- 

 tbenlication ; but whetber it be a MS. name, or already publisbed by Pro- 

 fessor Kunze, I bave no means of knowing. It may possibly be tbe same 

 as A. pobjphtjllum, Willd., wbich I see is mentioned by Klotzsch as found 

 by Moritz, n. b9 (my specimen bears no number) at Caraccas. If I could 

 be sure of tbis, I would gladly restore tbe older name. My var. (3. differs 

 in the more cbartaceous and firmer texture and the larger and darker-co- 

 loured and very prominent sori. Tbis species approaches our A. Mntheic- 

 sianum (p. 35), but there tbe frond is less divided, the pinnules are more 

 rhomboid or cut off as it were at the base by a rather short oblique line, 

 whereas the lower margin in our present species is formed by a straight 

 longitudinal line nearly as long as the pinnule itself. 



105. A. Lohhianum, Hook. ; frond rather ample (a foot 

 and more long) tripinnate, ramifications spreading, secondary 

 pinnae lanceolate acuminate straight firm, pinnides dimidi- 

 ato-ovate (lower ones subrhomboid) chartaceous sometimes 

 slightly antrorsely falcate superior base truncate superior 

 margin and roimd the obtuse apex slightly lobed and ser- 

 rated, lobules soriferous, sori few generally confined to the 

 lower part of the upper margin small 4 — 6 on a pinnule, in- 

 volucres very small black nearly orbicular, stipes elongated 

 and as well as the slender rachis ebeneous glossy glabrous. 

 (Tab. LXXXVI. C.) 



Hab. Java, Thos. Lobb, n. 264.— My several specimens of this fine fern 

 are very constant in form, and it is difficult to say which are its nearest 

 affinities. The involucres are peculiarly small and dark-coloured, spread- 

 ing after the dispersion of the capsides. 



106. A./onnosHnf,BY.; tall spreading, frond large supra- 

 decompound deltoid, pinnules small chartaceous obliquely 

 rhombeo-cuneate obtuse lobed or incised and serrated gla- 

 brous olive-brown when dry upper base truncate, lobes sori- 

 ferous obloug-reniform, stipes long rough and as well as 

 the flexuose rachis (partial ones pubescent) ebeneous glossy. 

 (T.\b. LXXXVI. B.)— Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 155, 

 (not All. Ciinn.) 



Hab. About Port Jackson, abundant, Brown and others. Mangatainoka, 



