poLYPODiuAi, § piiegoptp:ris. 271 



specific name, and more perhaps the aspect of Polyp. Rertoroainim, so caused by tlie 

 lowest inferior lol)C lieing adnate with the rachis, and, in a mcasnre, separated 

 from the jiinnules. Carmichael's name of hifidiim was prot)al)ly given from an ac- 

 cidentally forked specimen ; the one from him in my herharinm is not so, nor do I 

 find any indusium on the sorus ; and Aiibert du Petit Thouars says especially, 

 " punctis fructiferis parvis et nudis." 



221. P. (Phegopteris) Vogelii, Hook. ; caudex?, stipes 2 feet 

 or more long nearly as thick as a writing ])en stramineous 

 glossy furrowed when dry paleaceous at the base with sparse 

 spreading subulate dark-brown scales h an inch long, frond 

 ample 4 feet or more long firm-membranaceous glabrous or 

 hairy only on the veins beneath deltoid-ovate tri])irmate, 

 primary inferior piniiiie 12-15 inches long almost a foot wide 

 long-petioled their secondary pinnae and the superior primary 

 pinniB uniform 4-6 inches and more long 2 inches wide 

 short-petioled oblong acuminated deeply (except near the 

 apex) pinnatifid nearly to the costa pinnated in the lower 

 portion, segments and pinnules about an inch lomj i-^ of an 

 inch wide oblong-ovate obtuse with a truncated superior 

 base, the margins lobato-pinnatifid generally more deeply on 

 the upper margin, the inferior l)ase decurrent, the rachis 

 winged, veinlets one to each tooth or lobe of the pinnule or 

 segment forked, the superior branch soriferous near its base, 

 sori rather distant forming a series between the costule and 

 the margin. 



Hab. M'est tropical Africa : Fernando Po, Vogel, n. 229, Gmtav Mann, n. 352 ; 

 Ahoh, on the Quorra, Barter, in liaikie's E.rp. n. 158; Isle San Nicol, Cape de 

 Verdes, Forbes. — Forhes's plant has the ultimate segments and pinnules decur- 

 rent, and may probably prove a distinct species. 



222. P. (Phegopteris) vestitum, Hook. ; " frond robust 

 oval tripinnatifid pilose on the veins beneath, pinnrc alternate 

 lanceolate long-acuminate, pinimles linear pinnatifid acumi- 

 nate rather obtuse at the apex, lobes (segments and jjinnules) 

 alternate oblong obtuse, the margins revolute confluent at 

 the apex, sori uniseriate, capsules subglobose flexuose, stipes 

 and rachis densely i)uberulous cinerascent and besides clothed 

 beneath with elongated blackish scales." Phegopteris ves- 

 tita. Philippic PL Ckil. in Linncea, xxi. p. 107 {'^ot Polyp, 

 vestitum of Furster orRaddi). 



Ilah. South Chili, Valdivia, PhUippi, in Herb, nostr. — "Pinnules 2 inches 

 long, J of an inch wide; lobes 5 lines long, 3 lines wide : a species easily distin- 

 guished by the alternate character of the pinna;, pinnules, and lobes, and no less 

 so by the two kinds of indumentum on the stipes." PhUippi. The specimens in 

 my herbarium, for which 1 am indebted to the author, arc two (apparently) pri- 



