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58. Ch. cornuta, Kzc. ; " frond lanceolato-linear bipinnate, 

 pinnsD ovate approximalc the lowest subopposite petiolate, 

 pinnules sessile subternate bi- or trifid oblong obtuse curved 

 coriaceous, sori at length diffuse, stipes and rachis rigid (se- 

 laceo-paleaceous at length) naked." Kze. in Liimaa, x. p. 

 534. 



Hab. Worcester District, Cape of Good Hope, Ecklon and Drege. — " A 

 species not to be compared with any unless with several contracted forms 

 of Ch. hastata ; but the rigidity of the frond, its nearly linear outline and 

 diffuse sori readily distinguish it.'' — Kunze's specimens would appear to have 

 been far from good. If those of Drege himself in my herbarium are to be de- 

 pended upon, this is nothing more than, not even a variety of, Ch. profusa, 

 next before which Kunze places it, bnt without the slightest allusion to its 

 affinity with thai species. My specimen is marked by Drege " Cheilanthes 

 cormita, Kze., a.'' The slight curvature upwards of the pinnules which 

 suggested, I apprehend, the specific name, is common to the normal state 

 of Ch. profuxa : and there can be no question of the identity of the two, 

 unless Drege has made some mistake. 



59. Ch. pulcheUa^ Bory ; roots ca3spitose, stipites 4 — 6 inch- 

 es long pm-ple-brown glossy scaly below, fronds ovate or del- 

 toid-ovate acuminate tripinnate coriaceous glabrous, primary 

 pinna3 all more or less caudate at the apex, lowest pair dimi- 

 diato-deltoid their lowest inferior pinnae elongated pinnate or 

 pinnatifid, pinnules or lobes oblong or linear-oblong obtuse 

 entire, involucres membranaceous intramarginal continuous 

 brown transversely wrinkled and lobed at the edge. (Tab. 

 XCIV. A.) —Bory in Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 456. Webb and 

 Berth, in Phytogr. Canar. p. 453, t. 252, (excellent). Chei- 

 lanthes n. sp. ? Schimp. Coll. It. Abyss, n. 1431. 



Hab. Teneriffe, Borxj. Canary and Palma, Wehh et Bei-(helot, Dr. Le- 

 mann. Madeira, Wehb et Berthelot. Rocks in the valley of Mai Mezano 

 near Djeladjeranne, Abyssinia, Schimper. — Schimper's specimens are small- 

 er than most (but not than all) of Mr. Webb's and Dr. Lemann's specimens 

 of this very pretty fern ; but in no other respect different. We have thus 

 another station to add. Messrs. Webb and Berthelot had observed on its 

 geographical station, " Fortunatarum et Maderae ! cives estpulcbra species 

 autochton." — It would be a Pleris or Allosorus, of the group which pro- 

 duce intramarginal sori, but for the transversely wrinkled involucres indi- 

 cating what is considered the normal character of Cheilanthes, — interrupted 

 sori. 



60. Ch. coriacea, Dcsne; "ca;spitose (2 — 3 decimetr.), stipi- 

 tes terete ferruginous clothed with hairs and attenuated scales, 

 fi-onds bipinnate simply pinnate above, pinnae opposite, lower 

 ones bifid, the segments approximate linear- oblong obtuse 

 entire coriaceous furrowed on the upper side and opaque, 



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