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subtiipiunate or tvipinnato-pinnatifid the apex move simple, 

 primary pinna; remote shortly petiolate subopposile diver- 

 genli-patent oblong attenuated with an upward curvature, 

 secondary rather remote subsessile divergent from a broader 

 base oblong attenuated slightly curved, tertiary approximate 

 decurrent from the adnate base shortly oblong obtuse pinna- 

 tifid, segments falcato-ovate obtuse sparingly crenate or with 

 the pinnules sinuated the lobes suborbiculate, sori large situ- 

 ated in the upper base of the lacinia solitary in the sinus 

 rarely two, the second on the opposite side of the sinus, 

 indusium marginal herbaceous, the costae beneath convex 

 yellowish, sulcate above and together with the stout rachises 

 and short or moderately elongated stipes purple-brown vis- 

 cosely hispid, rhizoma creeping squarrosely piloso-paleace- 

 ous, scales of a rusty colour." Kze. — Cheilanthes resistens, 

 Kunze, in Li?ina;a, xvii. p. 275. 



Hab. Neilghenies (Kunze). — Instead of the copious specific character 

 occupying just half a page of the 'Linnaea,' we wish the able author could 

 have given us a figure, which would have been far more intelligible. We 

 are not however at a loss for the affinities of this (if it be really distinct). 

 " It comes near" he says " to the western Cheilanthes repens, Kanlf. : but 

 differs in the stouter rachises, of a purplish brown colour, not aculeolate, 

 but glandularly or viscidly hispid ; in the more coriaceous frond, in the 

 distinctly crenalo-serrated pinnules, and the herbaceous indusium." 



12. H. parallelogramma ; frond ample (10—20 feet long) 

 nearly glabrous glossy bi- scarcely tri-pinnate subcoriaceous 

 yellow-brown when dry, primary pinnae ovate acuminate, se- 

 condary sessile or nearly so narrow oblong much acuminated 

 subfalcate closely pinnated at the base (in some) the rest 

 closely pinnatifid, pinnules and lobes adnate parallelogram, 

 fertile ones sinuato-lobate at the margin the sinuses sorife- 

 rous, involucres semikuiate hard coriaceous, stipes and rachis 

 tawny brown rough with minute points scarcely aculeolate. 

 (Tab. LXXVIII. A.) — Cheilanthes parallelogramma, Kze. in 

 Linncea, ix. p. 83. 



Hab. Woody mountains of Pampayaco, Peru, Poeppig (in Herb, noslr.) 

 Bamboo-grounds, rare, Tovar, Columbia, Moritz, (Herb. Sonder, n. 338). 

 — My specimen of this from Dr. Poeppig had, evidently by mistake, a la- 

 bel with the name " Dicksonia erosa, Kze." attached to it: a Fern found 

 by that author in the same country. The present is well described by 

 Kunze in the volume of the ' Linnsa ' above quoted. He justly observes 

 " Similis C. repenti, Kaulf., sed abunde diftert.'' It is the most coriace- 

 ous and glossy in its frond of any species of Hypolepis I know : the nerves 

 of the pinnules are strong and prominent beneath : the texture thick 

 and opaque. Our figure gives an excellent representation of a perfect 

 pinna in the upper part of the plant : below, where the pinnules are again 



