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§ EuPTEnis. — Veins free, not anastomosing. 

 * Fronds pinnated ; pinna all undivided. 

 1. Pt. (Eupteris) longifoha, L. ; large (1-2 feet), caudex 

 short stout knotty, frond lanceolate attenuated below pin- 

 nate, pinnules numerous approximate linear-lanceolate elon- 

 gated gradually acuminated, terminal one sometimes the lar- 

 gest and petiolatc, the base truncate or cordate auriculate and 

 even hastate, lower pinnules gradually shorter, stipes more or 

 less chaffy. — Linn. S]j. PL p. 1531. Jacq. Hort. Schcenbr. t. 

 399-400. Schkuhr, Fil. t. 88. Aff. Sp. Pterid. p. 3. Pt. 

 costata, Bory in Belang. Voy. Willd. Blume. Hook, et Am. 

 Bot. of Beech. Voy. and others, p. 250. ^.251. Pt. vittata, L. 

 Willd. Sp. PL V. p. 368. Osb. It. t. 4. Sw. Pt. obliqua, 

 Forsk. Pt. lanceolata, Desf. Pt. ensifolia, Stv. Willd. Pt. 

 Alpinii, Desv. Pt. semihirta, Lk. Pt. acuminatissima, BL 

 En. FiL Jew. p. 208. Pt. amplectens, WaU. Cat. {et in Herb. 

 Nostr.). Aff. Sp. Pterid. p. 1. Pt. diversifolia, Sw. Syn. FiL 

 p. 96 et 288. Ag. Sp. Pterid. p. 6. Pt. trapezoides, Burnt. 

 Ind. t. &^. f. 2. Pt. microdonta. Gaud. Voy. p. 387. Pt. 

 tenuifolia, Brackenridge in Bot. of U. St. Explor. Exped. p. 

 112. Mr. Webb adds to these synonyms Pteris Indica, Poir., 

 Pt. insequilateralis, Poir., and Pt. Guichenotiana, Gaudich. 

 and Decaisne, Hab. Timor : to which \ve will also venture to 

 add Pt. eequalis, Presl, Reliq. Hank. \.p. 54, Pt. Bahamensis, 

 Fee, Gen. p. 125. Plum. FiL t. 69. — /8. sagittata, pinnules 

 auriculato-sagittate at the base (monstrosity). Pt. stipularis, 

 L. Sw. Willd. — 7. pinnules very narrow linear rigid. 



Ilab. " Sparsa est haec Filix per totius terrae orbis regiones temperatas atque 

 sequinoctiales, et 37 gradum in Europa attingit," as Mr. Webb justly observes in 

 his ' Flora of the Canaries,' and as my Herbarium alone would abundantly testify. 

 Most authors give the East and West Indies, Arabia, Mauritius, Bourbon,' Algeria, 

 and Spain. I may add as follows, from my Herbarium : in Europe, Canaries, 

 TJ'el/b and others; Malaga, and about Yunguera in Spain, Boissier and Neuter, 

 and other places in Spain, Bonrgeau, n. 1545 ; Castania, near Messina and Ischia, 

 Dalmatia, Dr. Alexander. Abyssinia, W. Schimper, n. 279. Mascato, Aucher- 

 tlloy, n. 5489. In the New World, Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas, St. Domingo, etc., 

 apparently almost confined to the W. Indian islands ; very rare on the continent 

 of America ; Mexico, Presl (and see under var. 7.). Africa, St. Antonio and St. 

 Vincent, Vogel; Isle San Nicol, Cape de Verds, Forbes ; Madagascar, Boivin and 

 Forbes. Macalisberg, interior of S. Eastern Africa, Burke. On the continent of 

 India almost universal, Nynee Tal in the north-west, T. Thomson, we.st and east 

 to the Irawaddy, JVallicli ; Ceylon, China, from various travellers; Loo-choo, 

 Beecfiey. Frequent in the Malay Archipelago, Jf'allich, (Borneo) Motley; Ma- 

 lacca, Griffith; Singapore, Lobb ; Pcnang, Lady Dalhousie ; Java, Blume; Am- 

 hoyna (Herb. Webb.); Luzon, Cuming. Feejce Islands, jV<7>je. Pacific islands: 

 Tongataboo, Brackenridge ; New Hebrides, Aneiteum, and Isle of Pines, Mac- 

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