176 PTEBIS. 



tinuous sometimes reaching to the apex of the pinnules white 

 thin membranaceous shghtly crenate and fimbriate at the 

 margin, stipes about a foot long and main rachises strami- 

 neous or brown glossy, secondary rachis slightly winged with 

 the decurrcnt bases of the pinnules. (Tab. CXX. A.) — 

 Desv. Berl. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1811, j9. 325. Hook, et Am. 

 Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 53. Kze. in LinncBa, ix. p. 7G. Ay. 

 Pterid.p. 41. Pt, tenera, Kaulf. Enum. p. 191. CoUa, Plant, 

 liar. Bert. \v.p. 76. Gay, FL Chil. vi. p. 56, 



Ilab. Chili, Paeppig, Beechey, Gay : Andes, Cuming, n. 634 ; Valparaiso, Cuming, 

 n. 634, and Conception, n. 148. Juan Fernandez, Bertero, n, 1558 (m Herb. 

 Nostr.), Cuming, n. 1330, Douglas, n. 12. Agardii gives Peru, Dombey, probalily 

 on the authority of the Paris Herbarium, but I have never seen it from that 

 country. (See remarks on tliis species under our preceding one.) 



33. Pt. (Eupteris) laciniata, Willd. ; everywhere more or 

 less hirsute, frond ample 4-4 y feet long tender herbaceo- 

 membranaceous (brown when dry) bipinnate ultimate pinnae 

 or pinnules pinnatifid, primary secondary or ultimate ones 

 confluent and decurrent lanceolate acuminate pinnatifid, lobes 

 varying in length and breadth more or less ovate or oblong 

 obtuse everywhere entire, veins branched, zigzag veinlets few 

 distant forked all arising from the main veinlet distant from 

 the 'costa, sori short in general, involucres marginal never 

 reaching to the sinuses nor to the apex of tlie lobes nor to 

 the acuminated apices of the pinnae, stipes (stout) and ra- 

 chises ferruginous hairy or somewhat scaly, (Tab. CXXXII. 

 B.)— Willd. Sp. PI. p. 397. Schkuhr, Fil. t. 86 {not t. 2). 

 Liebm. Fil. Mex. (in part), p. 75. Lonchitis hirsuta, Linn. 

 Sp. PL p. 1536. Willd. (in part). Pteris villosa, Sw. Syn. 

 Fil. pp. 100 and 295 ? Filix villosa, pinnulis quercinis, etc.. 

 Plum. Fil. p. 16. t. 20. 



Hab. Mexico, Mirador, on mountains from 600 to 3000 feet of elevation, Lieb- 

 mann. Linden, n. 31. Chirarabira, Seemann. Venezuela, colony of Tovar, Fend- 

 ler. West Indian Islands : Martinique, Plumier ; St. Vincent, Guilding ; Jamaica, 

 Bath, near the hot-well, Br. Alexander ; Guadaloupe, Ullerminier ; Dominica, 

 Dr. Imray. — This has the general aspect of Lonchitis, and is indeed the Lonchitis 

 hirsuta, Linn., and of Schkuhr and Willdeiiow in part (where they refer to the 

 West Indian plant). If we could trust implicitly to the accuracy of Plumier's 

 plate, it would be a Lonchitis, with free, not anastomosing veins ; but our plant 

 exhibits the fructification of a Pteris, as the figure will show. It has been 

 confounded with Willdenow's Lonchitis pubcscens, which is exclusively a plant of 

 Mauritius and Bourbon, with reticulated venation and short sori in the sinuses of 

 the lobes of the pinnules. M. P'ce has a Pt.faccida (" Lonchitis, Bory, Herb.") 

 which he i)laces near to Pt. laciniata, as the only species of his section "Lonchi- 

 tidium," among Pteris ; but if it be distinct from Pt, laciniata, I know nothing 

 of it, and it appears to be nowhere dcscril)ed. 



The aftinity of this among the species of Pteris is very doubtful : the nature 



