I'OLVI'ODIU.M, § GOMOI'TF.KIS. 3 



or less pubescenti-liirsute especially on the racliis and costcc 

 and veins beneath pinnated, pinnec 9-11 distant terminal one 

 similar to the rest long-pctioled 6-8 inches long 1^-2 inches 

 wide lower ones suhpctiolate upper lateral ones sessile all of 

 them broad-oblong rather suddenly and shortly acuminated 

 the margin subentire or crenato-lobate, veinlets very numerous 

 most of the pairs connivent the produced veinlet generally 

 free uppermost ones free only in the short lobes, sori dorsal 

 on the middle of all the united veinlets thus forming 2 series 

 between each pair of costules or primary veins. — Siv. St/n. 

 Fil. ]}. 3/. Jl'ii/d. Sp. Fl. v. p. 1S9. Goniopteris, Fr., Hook. 

 Gen. Fil. t. 38. Phegopteris, Mdten. Fhegopt. p. 25. Polyp, 

 meniscioides, P. faucium, and P. imbricatum, Liebiii. Fil. 

 Mex. — Flum. Fil. p. 93. t. 111. — Var. ^, Gheisbegldii ; twice 

 the ordinary size villoso-tomentose. Pol. Gheisbeghtii, Lin- 

 den, Cat. p. IS, a cull ivatedf ami, as is P. crenatum, Hook. Fil. 

 Exot. t. 84. 



Hal). Tropical America; frequent in the West India Islands and on the conti- 

 nent, Mexico, ifeiwan/j, Z,mf/en, «. 1499. Central America, Cuming, n. 1156. 

 Ecuador, Guayaquil, Spruce (no number). — Liebmann's specimens are quite gla- 

 brous, and form a striking contrast with the var. Gheisbeghtii. 



228. P. (Goniopteris) ietragomun, Sw. ; caudex "erect," 

 stipes angular subtetragonal when dry, 1-2 feet long, frond 

 firm-membranaceous ovate- or oblong-acuminate scarcely nar- 

 rowed at the base 1-3 feet long more or less pilosulous espe- 

 cially on the costte and veins pinnatifid at the apex or termi- 

 nated by a more or less petioled pinna resembling the lateral 

 ones ])auci- or multijugate, pinnos rather distant j)etioled 4-8 

 or even 10 inches long h an inch to H inch broad oljlong 

 lanceolate gradually acuminated upper ones more or less ob- 

 tuse and quite truncate at the base the inferior ones attenu- 

 ated there by the dwarfing of the lobes all of them more or 

 less deeply pinnatifid often about halfway down to the rachis, 

 the segments ovate obtuse or acute entire, veinlets 10-15 

 pairs of which 2 or 3 of the lowest ones are connivent all 

 bearing sori in a line between the costule and the niargin, 

 capsules echinate or glabrous. — Sw. Syn. Fil. jj. 77- ^^ ^d. 

 Sp. Fl. V. p. 203. — a, angustifolia ; pinnae narrow-lanceolate. 

 P. tetragonum. Schk. Fil. p. 22. t. J8. Goniopteris, Fr. 

 Phegopteris, Metten. Fhegopt. p. 22. Polyp, subtetragonum, 

 Link. P. Caripense, Sieb. — /3, latifoliuin ; pinnaj longer 

 broad-lanceolate. Pol. mcgalodus, Scitk. Fil. p. 24. /. 19 6; 



