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adultiom ob iiulusia sjunui I'vrc cxpliinatii Pn/i/pndii cliaraclcrcs prcr se I'e- 

 rinit." — I place this, with which 1 am unac(|uaiiitecl, near Ch. nbtmata, 

 I'lcsl, in consctiucnce of ihc lollowinp addilional icinark ol" Kuuze. " Ma};- 

 nituilo el hahitu fere Ch.nbtusahr, I'r., ([ua; vcro nostra cliffert, laciniiscre- 

 uato-incisis et indiuiiento {^hmduloso." — In another phicc Kunze speaks 

 of his Ch. crcnala as synonymous with Ch.iiegam, when he says ('Liniia:a,' 

 xxiv. p. 275), under Ch. bullala, " hubitu fere Ch. elet/untis, Desv., s. cre- 

 mila meae." 



20. Ch. Wrighliiy Hook. ; small nearly glabrous, caudcx 

 creeping bvanclied scaly about as thick as a crow-quill, stipi- 

 tes rather distant 2 — 3 inches long and as well as the main 

 rachis brown-ebeneous grooved on one side sparsely hairy 

 with slender spreading hairs, frond about equal in length 

 with the stipes bi- scarcely tripinnate quite glabrous rigid 

 snbcoriaceous dark green above pale beneath, ]niniary pinn;e 

 subovate in circumscription rather distant especially the lower 

 pairs which arc nearly opposite, ])innules oblong more or less 

 decuirent upper ones confluent piunatifid with smallish lobes, 

 the smaller lobes with the apex levolute and forming squa- 

 ma)form but close-placed distinct involucres the larger ones 

 with the sides (generally) involute resembling confluent or 

 more or less elongated involucres. (Tab, CX. A.) 



Ilab. Collected in the expediton from Western Texas to El Paso, New 

 Mexico, May — October, 181!), Charles Wright, n. 823.— A small aiid very 

 pretty, and as far as I can judpje, very distinct species, somewhat allied in 

 its fructifications to the East Indian Ch. varians of Dr. Walliuh, but very 

 much smaller and with ample distinguishing characters from that. C/e. 

 Alahamcnis is a much larger plant, more regular in its ramification and very 

 uniform in the continuous involucres, as may be seen by the figures. The 

 present is, in its squamiform involucres, much more truly a Cheilanlhcs. 



21. Ch. suhvillo.m. Hook. ; stipes shining brown slightly 

 scaly, frond broad-lanceolate or ovate pinnate thin submem- 

 branaceous glabrous above, soft villous about the rachises be- 

 neath, pinna) all obtuse upper ones lanceolate the rest broad 

 deltoid-lanceolate or ovate pinnatifid, rarely the lowest laci- 

 niae again i)innatifid, the margin nearly entire, involucres of 

 nearly the same colour and texture as the frond sometimes 

 subrotund and free mostly continuous lobed and crenated, 

 main rachis especially above villous. (Tau. XCVIH. B.) 



Hab. Western Himalaya, Mr. Edycworlh. — With a good deal the as- 

 pect of our Ch. Dalhomhc, the present plant is nevertheless very distinct 

 and perhaps ought to be referred rather to AUosorus (Presl) than to Chci- 

 laulhis ; for the involucre is more generally continuous than in separate 

 scales, though so lobed and crenate that it (juite vacillates between the two 

 genera. I have seen nothing corresponding with it in any other eolleetion. 

 Our specimens have unfortunately no root, and the stipes of all is broken. 



