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oblique large, yjcdicel very broad, annulus broad 18-20-arti- 

 culated, spores rather large irregular trihocdral amber- 

 coloured margined." Litobrochia Montbrisonis, Fee, Gen. 

 Flip. 137. 



Hab. Bourbon, Montbrison. — " Filix iiisignis, siccitate flavidula, iicrvillis tenui- 

 biis, rufescentibus." 



115. Pt. (Litobrochia) camptocarpa, Fee; " fronds 3-4-pin- 

 nate ample, rachis stramineous-yellowish glabrous 3-sulcate, 

 pinnellaft sessile long-acuminate the apex sterile, segments 

 abbreviated distinct curved obtuse ovate separated by a 

 broad obtuse sinus, the apex serrated sterile, niucro spi- 

 nescent rigid, basal areoles narrow flexuose, nervils slender 

 coloured, sporothecia curved, indusium thick rather broad, 

 sporangia elliptical, annulus 20-22-articulated, spores trigo- 

 nous smooth, hairs of the sporothecia (sporangiastra ?) citron- 

 coloured subtorulose and constricted." — Litobrochia camp- 

 tocarpa, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 137- Pt. (Litobrochia) Orizabee, 

 Klotzsch, in L'mnaa, xx. p. 342 [not Galeotti). 



Hab. Columbia, colony of Tovar, Moritz, n. 47. — '" A large glabrous Fern, 

 greenish when dry." 



116. Pt. (Litobrochia) Tiissaci, Fee; "fronds ample bi- 

 pinnate, rachis glabrous reddish subcanaliculate in the upper 

 portion narrow and winged, pinnfe alternate shortly stipitate 

 acuminate, segments falcate acute serrato-nmcronulate, ner- 

 vils sculpturate, the larger are long-petiolate, sporothecia 

 basal, indusium broad, the margin receptaculiform, sporan- 

 gia ovate, annulus 18-articulated, spores irregularly trigonous, 

 sporangiastra intestiniform citron-coloured constricted." — 

 Litobrochia Tussaci, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 138. 



Hab. St. Domingo, De Tussac. 



117. Pt. (Litobrochia) grandis, Fee; " fronds ample very 

 smooth membranaceous [consistance seche), nervils lax pro- 

 minent on the superior surface, rachis whitish, pinnules 

 deeply pinnatifid petiolate, segments lanceolate with a broad 

 sinus between to the base of which the sporothecia extend 

 and unite leaving the apex sterile, this apex is elongated 

 into a soft toothed point, the intermediate pinnule is pinna- 

 tifid." — Litobrochia grandis, Fee, Fil. Sme. Mem. p. 75. 



Hab. Mexico, near Mirador, Schaffner, n. 144. Cuba, Morelet. St. Domingo, 

 Tussac. — " Toute la j)lante a un aspect logerement ardoiso," F('e. 



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