185 



5372, larger, more coriaceous, rather less villous. — The figure above quoted well 

 represents our Mexican specimens; those of Mr. Spruce are slightly ditferent. 



55. P. (Eupolypodium) apicuhitain, Kze. ; " caudcx creep- 

 ing clothed all over with lanccolate-acununate shortly setose 

 dirty-brown apprcssed scales, stipites 2-3 lines long shortly 

 pubcscenti-hirsute, fronds subcoriaceous glabrous 5-7 inches 

 long elongato-oblong acuminate deeply pinnatifid to the 

 costa, segments 7-'^ lines long 1-H line broad, inferior 

 ones distinct, superior contiguous from a broader base sul)- 

 attenuated at the inferior side rather obtuse entire, veins sub- 

 immersed 5-8 on each side all soriferous and incrassated at 

 the apex, on the upper side terminating in a minute depres- 

 sion longer than the infra-apical sorus, sori slightly siuik." 

 Metten. — Kze. in Linncea, xx. p. 878. Metten. Polyp, p. 44. 

 P. Pecten, Fee, Gen. p. 240 [Metten.) . 



Ilab. Venezuela. Linden, n. 239 {Metten.). Columbia, Tovar, Moritz, n. 247 

 {Herb, nostr., from Mettenius). \' euezue\a, Bersc/iel, Fendler, n. 217 (1'. lepto- 

 phyllum, Moritz, mst., Eaton) and n. 218. Brazil, Gardner {Mettenius), Organ 

 Mountains, n. 110, in Herb, nostr. Ecuador, Cliiniborazo, alt. 3000 itet, Spruce, 

 n. 5713. — The specimens from Venezuela, according to Mr. Eaton named P. lep- 

 iophyllum, Moritz, mst., seem identical with the plant I have received from 

 Mettenius as the true P. apiculatum; and all from the above localities I should 

 have little hesitation in considering forms of P. Plumula, Willd. 



56. P. (Eupolypodium) firmum, Kl. ; '^caudex creeping 

 clothed with lanceolate-acuminate entire dirty-brown gla- 

 brous scales, fronds deeply pinnatifid oblong long-acuminate 

 attenuated at the base and long stipitate, segments lanceolate 

 rather obtuse straight erect (?) multisorous black-green gla- 

 brous, sori small deep-brown, stipes dirty-brown, and the 

 rachis piloso-hispid." — Kl. in Linncea, xx. p. 378. Metten. 

 Polyp, p. 44. 



Hal). British Guiana, Richard Schomltunjk, n. 1170, in Herb, nostr., from 

 Klotzsch. Andes of Chili, PhiUppi {Klotzsch). Merida, Columbia, Funck and 

 Schlim, n. 1103 (in part, Met I.). 1 have the same from Xalapa, Harris, and from 

 St. Domingo, R. Schomburyk. — Caudex as thick as a goose-quill. Stipes slender, 

 1-3 inches long. Frond 4-G inches long, 6-14 lines wide. Segmenis 3-7 lines 

 long, 1-1,^ line wide. — I give above the entire description of the author of tliis 

 species, whose original specimens are in my herbarium ; but my materials are 

 hardly sufficient to enable me to form an opinion upon it. 



57- P- (Eupolypodium) monticola, Kl. ; " caudex filiform 

 elongated, stipites 2-3 lines long setose, fronds 2 inches long 

 sparingly setose linear, almost to the base pinnatifid, seg- 

 ments contiguous 2-2^ Hues long 1 line wide ovate or ovato- 

 oblong obtuse entire, lower ones abbreviated much decur- 



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