6 POLYPODIUM, § GONIOPTERIS. 



naceous 5 inches to a foot long 1-3 inches wide subhir- 

 sute linear-lanceolate or broad-lanceolate erect or flexuose 

 and decumbent creeping and rooting at various points and 

 proliferous pinnate, pinnee distant from ^ an inch to 2 inches 

 long from a broad subpetiolated base oblong obtuse lobato- 

 pinnatifid, the superior jjase auriculiform rarely the lower 

 one, lobes rounded entire, veins opaque flexuose lowest pair 

 of veinlets uniting at a great distance from the costule and 

 forming a large acute areole the rest generally free, sori small 

 scattered, a minute fimbriated scale is considered by Mette- 

 nius to be an indusium. — a, radicans ; frond slender creep- 

 ing and rooting, pinnee entire free to the apex yet often ter- 

 nate or deeply pinnatifid. P. reptans, Siv. Syii. Fil. p. 36. 

 Wilhl. Sp. PL V.JO. 186. Goniopteris, Pr. P. Sloanei, Desv. 

 {not Kze.). Aspid. reptans, var. 3, radicans, Metten. Aspid. 

 j». 99. S/oane, Jam. t. 29 and 30. — /3, asplenioides ; frond 

 larger erect, pinn£E large, the apex pinnatifid. P. asplenio- 

 ides, Siv. Sijn. Fil. p. 36. JFil/d. Sp. PI. v. p. 188. Gonio- 

 pteris, Pr. Woodsia pubescens, Sjjreng. in Nov. Act. Acad. 

 Leop. X. p. 233. /. 16./". 5-7 {very good). 



Hab. West Indies, both forms especially abundant in Jamaica and Cuba. 

 Guatemala, Salvyn. Venezuela, Fendler,n. 201, pinnse very broad. Brazil {Met- 

 tenius). — Swartz and others quote the figure of Sloane's jam. t. 43, f. 2, as the 

 authority for the Polyp, asplenioides. 'I'liis is a stout coarse-looking Fern, a foot 

 and more long and 6 inches broad, which appears to me to have more affinity 

 with some forms of P. tetrayonum. Such imperfect figures scarcely deserve a 

 reference. 



233. P. (Goniopteris) asterofhrix, Hook,; "caudex an ob- 

 lique rhizome," stipes a span long and as well as the rachis 

 patently villous, frond a foot long firm membranaceous more 

 or less villous especially on the costa and veins beneath (hairs 

 sometimes forked) oblongo-lanceolate pinnatifid at the apex, 

 pinnae distant especially the lower ones 1^-2 inches long ^-f 

 of an inch broad oblong obtuse sessile lobato-pinnatifid, lobes 

 oval rounded entire, tlie bases united by a callous line, si- 

 nuses acute, veinlets 4-5 pairs pellucid straight the lowest pair 

 connivent the next ])air meeting at the callous line, sori in 2 

 lines between the costule or primary vein and the margin. — 

 Goniopteris, Fee, Gen. p. 253. Phegopteris, Metten. Phegopt. 

 p. 21. 



Hab. Cuba, Linden, n. 1878 {n. 1917, according to Fee.). — Resembling a large 

 form of P. 'reptans, but the whole plant is larger, the stipes and racliis stouter, 

 verv hairv, and the venation is very different. I fail to see the stellated hairs 



