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27. H. pedata, Hook. ; fronds glabrous small (4 — 6 inches 

 long) ternately-divided lower lateral divisions unequally bifid 

 (ihe lowest and shortest one branched pinnate) middle division 

 and superior branch of the lower division bipinnate, pinnules 

 dimidiato-ovate acute obliquely cuneate at the base auricled at 

 the base above, a few of the lower ones of the principal pinnaj 

 subbipinnate or pinnatifid, sori marginal rather small not 

 copious, involucres membranaceous oblong-reniform, stipes 

 elongated (1 — 1^ foot long) ebeneous glossy as well as the 

 rachis, which is slightly furrowed on the upper side. (Tab. 

 XCIl. A.) 



Hab. Jamaica, Purdie. — This I consider a perfectly new and very dis- 

 tinct species: in some, indeed in many respects, allied to H.radiatum, 

 especially in the full dark green colour when dry of the frond, paler beneath, 

 the opacity of the auricled pinnules, the immersed and (except when held 

 up between the eye and a strong light) obsolete veins, the similar lateral 

 involucres, the same ebeneous stipes and rachises. There is even a dispo- 

 sition to be radiate in the ramification ; for the two lowest primary pinnae 

 are nearly opposite, much longer than the rest ; and they at the base send 

 out each a divaricating branch (pedate), forming with the terminal or 

 central primary pinna a deeply 5-angled frond. It is an exceedingly pretty 

 plant, and very constant to its characters in all the numerous specimens I 

 possess. 



28. H. spectabilis, Link ; glabrous, fronds 2 feet or more 

 long broad oblong acuminate submembranaceous bright green 

 (when dry) 3-4-pinnate, primary pinnse deltoideo-acurainate 

 secondary ones lanceolate ultimate ones subdimidiato-oblong 

 sessile decurrent at the base the upper ones confluent, all 

 nearly entire, sori very small not numerous on both margins 

 fewer on the lower very small squamiform nearly white dis- 

 tinct or sometimes confluent, stipes elongated and as well as 

 the rachises ebeneous glossy. (Tab. LXXXVIII. B.) Chei- 

 lanthes spectabilis, Kaulf. En. Fit. p. 214. Cheil. Brasilien- 

 sis, Raddi, Fil. Bras. p. 60, t. 75, f. 2. Hypolepis, Presl, 

 Tent. Pterid. p. 166. Aspidium coniifolium, Pr. 



Hal). Brazil. Common about Rio. Organ Mountains, Gardner, n. 198. 

 Pernambuco, Swainson. S. Brazil, Sellow {in Herb, nostr.) Rio Grande,il/r. 

 Fox {Herb. n. 123). — Raddi's figure above quoted is a fair representation 

 of the entire plant. A common state of the fructification is as represented 

 at our Tah. LXXXVIII. B., while it must be confessed that other speci- 

 mens exhibit the involucres more or less confluent, and this plant has per- 

 haps as strong a claim to Cheilanthes as to Ifi/polepis. Some of my speci- 

 mens are nearly 4 feet long, including the almost Mack glossy stipes. I 

 think it ranks belter near //. radiala and //. pedala than with Cheilanthes, 

 as I am disposed to consider the limits of the latter genus. 



29. H. paupercula ; laxly tufted, frond ovato-acuminatc 



