90 CHEILANTHES. 



Hiib. Southern Uiiilecl Slates, growing: in tufts on limestone rocks, banks 

 of the Tenessee river, Alabama, Mr. Buckle;/. Broad river, Tcnessee, Ru- 

 gel. Capville, Upper Georj^ia, Ilcrh. Shuttleworth. — Notwithstandin};; the 

 remark of Professor Kunze, that this is a very distinct species, to me it ap- 

 pears to be too nearly allied to some of the forms of Ch. microphijlla ; the 

 form, I mean, having the most compact and acute pinnules, and with con- 

 tinuous invohicres. Indeed Kunzo himself says "it resembles Ch. micro- 

 viera, Sw., and my Ch. Liukiana, (Ch. microraera, Link).^' This Ch. 

 miaomera of Link, Kunze has since referred to Ch. microphylla : and we 

 may, in this form, conceive that Ch. microphylla has attained its northern 

 limits in the Southern States of N. America. 



2f>. Ch. Aloluccana, Bl, ; "frond bipinnate subcoriaceous 

 and as well as the rachis and stipes pubescent, pinnules obo- 

 vate obtuse crenulate confluent above, sori continuous, invo- 

 lucres obsolete, stipes and rachis black-purple." Blume, En. - 

 Fil. Jav. jo. 136. 



Hab. Banda, in the Molucca Islands, Blume. " Locus inter Ch. micro- 

 phyllam, Sw., et Ch. vestitain, Sw." Bl. 



27. Ch. KleinJioffil, Bl.; "frond pinnate pubescent beneath, 

 pinnae subopposite ovato-oblong obtuse repando- crenulate, 

 upper ones entire, lower ones auriculato-trilobate, involucres 

 obsolete continuous, rachis and stipes pubescent." Blume, 

 En. Fil. Jav. p. 137. 



Hab. Java. " Ex herbario javanico CI. Kleinhoff sub nomine Acrosticho 

 appendiculato, Willd. accepi." Bl. — The above is all the information we 

 possess respecting the two supposed species, Ch. Moluccana and Ch. Klein- 

 hoffii, Bl. 



28. Ch. multijida, Sw. ; caudex short thick slightly creep- 

 ing clothed with black subulate scales, roots tufted fibrous, 

 stipites 4 — 6 inches long plane and marginate above on the 

 upper side terete below a little scaly at the base and as well 

 as the rachises stout rigid deep ebony-black glossy, fronds 

 glabrous deltoid-ovate acute when young often with glandu- 

 lar dots beneath tri- below quadripinnate coriaceous (in fruit), 

 primary pinnce subopposite broad ovate subdeltoid petiolate, 

 pinnules or segments oblong pinnatifid, lobes subrotuud con- 

 vex each bearing 2 to 4 subrolund flattish appressed pale 

 brown submembranaceous distinct involucres. (Tab. C. B.) 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 129 et 334. Blume, Fil. Jav. p. 157. Ch. 

 Capensis, Eckl. in Un. It. n. 168. Adiantura globatum, Poir. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope, in rocky and stony places ; extending as far 

 aS'All>any, {Harvey, in Herb, nostr.) St. Helena, Benne/l, in Herb, nostr. 

 Roximryh, in Herb. Banks. Lofty mountains of Java, Blume, in Herb, 

 nvstr. — If the sterile pinna? and pinnules of this be alone inspected, its affi- 

 nity with Ch. Mysurensis is considerable : — but the very different outline of 

 the much more compound fronds, broadish below, will invariably distinguish 



