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Ilab. Andes of Chili, Jleen/ce, C. Gay. — " Ilaliitus D. australis, si i)artein infe- 

 rioretn frondis respicis. Siipcrioie frondis fructifcraj parte ad B. auriculatum 

 Iffive accedit.— Al) afiiiii B. hastato, Klfs., multis notis differt." 



27. Bl. vUtatum., Brack.; *' stipes smooth semiterete pa- 

 leaceo-crinite, fronds membranaceous glabrous oblongo-lan- 

 ceolate pinnate, piiuiic alternate, 5^m/e ones linear-lanceolate 

 attenuate serrulato-dilated at the base,ycT/i/e ones contracted 

 lanceolato-linear acute dilated at the base, veins simple or 

 forked parallel, sori approximate to the costa continuous, in- 

 dusium cartilaginous entire." Brack. Fil. U.S. Expl. Eocped. 

 p. 131. t. 16. 



Hab. Fiji Islands, in wet lands, Brackenridge. — I am unacqnaintcd with any 

 Fern exactly corresponding with the figure and description given by Mr. Urack- 

 euridge. The sterile fronds have broader pinna) than the fertile one, and in the 

 upper half they are more dilated at the base and subconfluent ; in the sterile j)in- 

 na; the inferior pinna; arc remote, in the fertile all are remote, and in both the 

 lower pinnaj are not at all dilated at the base. Fronds \\-2 feet long, with a 

 good deal the aspect of Lomaria, but the sori are those of Bkchnum. 



28. Bl. arcuatum, C. Gay ; rhizome oblique and apparently- 

 increasing by underground runners clothed among the fasci- 

 culated stipites with subulate scales, stipes 1-5 inches long 

 subterete furrowed in front, frond a span to 2 feet high 1-1 ^ 

 inch broad rigid coriaceous opaque narrow-lanceolate pin- 

 nated, pinnec numerous crowded but gradually diminishing 

 below to small distant very abbreviated ones, the rest ho- 

 rizontal from a broad-cordate base obtusely auricled above 

 and below ovato-lanceolate falcate obtuse or acute the mar- 

 gin quite entire thickened dotted with whitish points where 

 the forked veins terminate just within the margin, veins im- 

 mersed obsolete or only to be traced by a shrinking of the 

 substance between them in some of the pinnce, sori close 

 to the costa continuous, involucres narrow-linear brown en- 

 tire. — Gaij, Fl. Chil. vi. p. 477- Bl. acuminatum, Sturm, in 

 Flora, 1853,;^. 362 {not Fee). Metten. Fil. Lechl. p. 13. /. 2. 

 ff. 7-9 [excellent). Sturm, En. Fil. Chil. p. 22. Blechnum 



Bibrce, Metten. in Lechl. PI. Chil. n. 127 et 508 a. 



Hab. Chiloe, Ca])t. Philip King (in Herd. Nosfr.). South Chili; Valdivia, 

 from the coast to the elevation of 2000 feet on the Andes, De Bibra, Philippi, 

 Lechler, C. Gay. — A very distinct species, and very uniform in its cliaracters, 

 first found, I believe, by Capt. Philip King, in Chiloe, whence I have one speci- 

 men measuring more than two feet in the length of its frond. This frond is 

 always of a very narrow, almost linear-lanceolate form, of a firm coriaceous tex- 

 ture, singularly opaque (not translucent), so that the veins are quite obsolete; 

 the ui)per surface is glossy, the margin thickened, and there is a row of white 

 dots just within the margin, where the veiidets terminate. — One has a choice of 

 three names for this species. Bl. acuminatum is the oldest publislied, but there 



