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Venezuela, Fendler, n. 254. Chacapoyas, Peru, Mathews. — I have no authentic 

 specimen from Schlecliteiuliil of this i)lant; l)ut I l)eheve Liehohl's specimens to 

 he the same, as they certainly an^ tiie P.pufierulum of Mettenius and Kuiize, and 

 I feel assured I am correct in referring hither the P. Huhpet'mlalum (Eat. not 

 Hook.) and my P. biauriculatum. 



129. P. (Eupolypodium) si(bIanosuni, Hook.; caudex?, 

 stipites 4 inches long dirty stramineous sublanose as is the 

 whole plant and beneath with whitish crisped hairs, fronds 

 12-14 inches long 3 inches wide firm but rather thin-niem- 

 branaceous broad-lanceolate acuminated scarcely attenuated 

 at the base pinnated below pinnatifid upwards, segments 

 and pinnae horizontal approximate from a broad-adnate base 

 slightly decurrent below, above dilated so as to form an ob- 

 tuse auricle oblong bluntly and very shortly acuminated quite 

 entire, costae straight stramineous, veins immersed indis- 

 tinctly visible twice forked, sori suljrotund rather distant 

 in two series halfway between the costule and the margin, 

 rachis firm stramineous. 



Ilah. Organ Mountains, Brazil, Gardner, n. 122. — Allied in size and general 

 form to P. pu&erulum; hut everywhere clothed with crisped hairs, giving the 

 frond a somewhat hoary and woolly appearance : the veins are very inconspicu- 

 ous, and the sori are quite different in form and position. 



130. P. (Eupolypodium) sericeo-Ianafum, Hook.; caudex 

 creeping clothed with subulate brown woolly scales, stipites 

 aggregated 1-2 inches long sericeo-villose, fronds G-12-16 

 inches long H-3 inches wide flaccid pendent firm-membra- 

 naceous clothed with silky whitish woolly hairs broad oblong- 

 lanceolate or oblong-acuminate pinnate, pinnae 1-2 inches 

 long J of an inch broad o])long or linear-oblong alternate 

 approximate from a rather broad base more or less decurrent 

 below adnate more or less tapering to an obtuse point straight 

 or falcately recurved rarely with a blunt auricle or lobe above 

 and more rarely one below also, when the pinnae become 

 subhastate, quite entire, costae slender straight appearing 

 black when viewed between the eye and the light, veins short 

 rather distant simple indistinct bearing the sorus at the apex 

 in two series nearer the costule than the margin, sori glo- 

 bose, rachis filiform flexuose. 



Hah. Ecuador, Pichincha, alt. 12,000 feet, and woods near Banos, Jameson, n. 

 23.'), 73, 29, and 394; mountains of Guayrapata, Spruce, n. 5277. New Gra- 

 nada, Ocana, alt. 10,000-11,000 feet, Schlim, n. 313 (small, a span long, 1 inch 

 hroad, more densely silky with tawny hairs). — Evidently allied to the preceding, 

 yet quite distinct and not far removed from P. cultratum. Some of the fronds 

 resemhle in outline those of P. vulyare ; hut they are truly pinnate, soft and 

 flaccid, pendent, with extremely short, slender, silky stipites. 



