88 ClllilLANTHES. 



The fiK'Ures represent a medium sample. In one of our specimens the pin- 

 nae are more, and in another lcss,"divided than is here represented. 



22. Cli. hnl/osa, Kze. ; " iliizonia short thick obliquely 

 descending," stipites C — 8 inches long terete aspevoiis at the 

 base and as well as the rachis and stout prominent ])artial 

 rachis beneath which extends to the apex of the pinnic deej) 

 glossy ebeneous, frond rigid coriaceous glabrous (dark olive- 

 brown when dry) oblong-lanceolate opaque above and there 

 under the microscope as it were minutely granulated pinnato- 

 pinnalifid C — 8 inches long, pinnx- i-ather distant nearly op- 

 posite the lower ones sometimes sub-bipinnate ovato-oblong 



" patent deeply pinnatifid the lobes linear crenate on the lowest 

 inferior ones often again pinnatifid singularly bullate on the 

 upper side in consequence of the sunken costa and veins (the 

 spaces between them thus being convex), the primary lobes 

 of the pinnie are rather distant, so that the piunte may almost 

 be said to be pinnate with a winged rachis, the margins of the 

 lobes and teeth of the crenatures are much reflexed and form 

 seraiorbicular involucres pale at the edge which become united 

 and more or less continuous and slightly erose at the margin 

 in age becoming more membranous. (Tab. XCVI. A.) Kiinze 

 in Linnoiay xxiv. p. 274. 



Hab. Neilgherry Hills, Schmid, Koch ( Kunzs), Dr. Gideon Thomson. 

 — " Species valde insiguis," as Professor Kunze well observes. That able 

 author compares it with " Ch. elegans, Desv. {Ch. crenata (Kze.), in habit ; 

 but with Ch. pruinafa and Mysurensis in characters. It is however very dis- 

 tinct from any of them and from every species. The stipes and main and par- 

 tial rachis are stout, glossy purple-black, the former asperous at the base ; 

 the partial rachis singularly stout and prominent beneath, and its glossy 

 black colour extends to the apex of the pinnie. The upper side of the frond 

 is remarkable for its very opaque surface, apparently caused by minute gra- 

 nulations there, and the costa or partial rachis and veins are much simk, 

 so as to give a bullate appearance, which suggested the specific name given 

 by Kunze. 



23. Ch. pyymcea., Kl. ; " frond ovate bipinnato-pinnatifid, 

 pinnules obovato-sublrapeziform obtuse inferior ones pinna- 

 tifid, rachises and stipes densely ferrugineo-villose." Kl. in 

 Linmea^ xx. j)- 338. 



Hab. Mexico, E. Aschcnhnm, n. 563, (Klotzsch). — " Rhizoma ascending, 

 slender, pale ferrugineo-villous. Fronds 3 — 4 inches long, subHexuose. 

 Stipites slender, at length glabrous, becoming black. Pinna; lanceolate, 

 obtuse, 5 lines long. Pinnules obliquely subtrapezifovm, pinnatifid, ob- 

 tuse, sparingly pilose beneath, H line long, shortly petiolate." Kl. This is 

 placed next Ch. microphi/lla in Dr. Klotzsch's Filices of the ' Flora der 

 iEquinoctial-Gegenden der neuen Welt ; ' but I know not whether we are 

 thence to infer tliat its afiinity is with that species. No further remarks, 

 than the above, are given. 



