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gradually lanceolate acuminate pinnatifid about halfway down 

 with ovate obtuse lobes except at the apex which is entire, 

 lowest pinnfe small triangular, veins internal simple termi- 

 nating in a very conspicuous swollen clavate apex which 

 bears the oval very prominent dull orange-coloured sori one 

 to each lobe a little distant from the costule. (Tab. 

 CCLXXVII. B.) 



Ilab. Pangoa, Peru, Mathews, n. 1103. — This pretty species has so much the 

 habit of an aspleiiioid Fern, that on a hasty examination I had arranged it in that 

 group in my herbarium ; and the swollen apex of the veins, before the sori liurst 

 through, almost resembles the involucre of an Athyrimn ; but the sori are truly 

 those of a Polypodium. I possess only two specimens, both destitute of caudex. 

 The fronds appear as if they might be drooping in the living state. 



138. p. (Eupolypodium) loiigisetosum, Hook. ; caudex ?, 

 stipes 3 inches long slender flexuose deciduously villous, 

 frond 8 inches long 2 inches wide membranaceous pendent 

 very villous on both sides chiefly beneath and at the margin 

 with long dark-brown spreading hairs, broad-lanceolate 

 scarcely acuminate attenuated at the base with dwarfed distant 

 pinna) deeply pinnatifid above, the rest pinnate, segments 

 or pinnfe 1 inch long 1 line wide horizontally patent linear-ob- 

 long obtuse decurrent at the base, lower ones more distant than 

 the upper ones, all pinnatifid about halfway down to the 

 costa with subtriangular obtuse lobes or teeth, rachis filiform 

 and slender, costule black, veins simple short one to each 

 lobe bearing a globose sorus nearer the rachis than the mar- 

 gin. (Tab. CCLXXVIII. A.) 



Hab. Andes of Quito, Jameson, n. 79. — Though I possess only a solitary spe- 

 cimen of this pretty Fern, I am yet bound to consider it a new species, allied to 

 P. achillecpfolium indeed, but differing in the larger size, the slenderer and flex- 

 uose rachis, the membranaceous and flaccid and pendent frond, incapable of sup- 

 porting itself erect, the less deeply cut lobes of the pinnai or segments, and, above 

 all, the copious and very long hairs, which render the whole plant conspicuously 

 villous. 



139. P. (Eupolypodium) a cM Ilea' folium, Klf. ; "caudex 

 (short) creeping clothed with membranaceous pale ferrugi- 

 nous lanceolate acuminated scales, stipites 4-8 lints long 

 (clustered), fronds coriaceous on both sides as well as on the 

 stipes setose with patent cinnamon-brown at length blackish 

 hairs, 4-5 inches long lanceolate or oblong attenuated at both 

 extremities deeply pinnatifid, segments with the superior 

 base adnate, the inferior attenuate decurrent and forming a 

 narrow wing, 10 lines long 1 line wide linear obtuse deeply 

 serrato-pinnatifid narrower at each extremity, teeth or lobes 



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