20 POLYPODIUM, § GONIOPHLEBIUM. 



Hab. Cerro del Jlorro, San Luis, South America, Gillies. Andes of Peru, 

 M'Lean (segments more entire). — Admirably figured by Dr. Greville, 1. c. It 

 has too much the habit of P. vulgare, but is larger, and the venation quite that 

 of Goniophlebium. 



258. P. (Goniophlebium) Catharince, Fisch. and Langsd. ; 

 caudex creeping clothed with ferruginous subulate scales, 

 stipes 2-3 inches long slender stramineous, fronds coriaceo- 

 membranaceous glabrous 5-8-9 inches long 2-2^-4 inches 

 wide ovate acuminate deeply nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, 

 the acuminated apex nearly entire, segments horizontal ap- 

 proximate 1^-2 inches long \ inch wide from a rather broad 

 scarcely decurrent base oblong obtuse entire or subsinuate, 

 the sinuses acute or rarely obtuse, lowest pair generally de- 

 flexed, veins forming one or two series of costal areoles of 

 which the first series is soriferous, sori suliglobose nearer the 

 costa than the margin. — Fisch. and Langsd. Fil. p. 9. t. 9. 

 Willd. Sp. PL y.jj. 172. Metten. Polyp, p. 7-^. Marginaria, 

 Pr. Goniophleb., J. Sm. Polyp, glaucun), Raddi, Fil. Bras, 

 p. 20. t. 29./. 1. 



Hab. Brazil, Lavgsdorff, Raddi, Boog, Gardner, n. 70. — I possess specimens 

 quite according with the two figures aljove quoted, but I cannot consider it a well- 

 marked species. I shall have occasion to refer to other supposed species that are 

 too closely allied to this. 



259. P. (Goniophlebium) Mathnvsii, Metten.; caudex?, 

 stipes 4 and more inches long subvillous, frond oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate subcoriaceous 12-14 inches long 3-4 

 inches wide deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid clothed on 

 both sides especially beneath and at the margins with rufous 

 hairs some slender and subsetaceous others wider soft fiexu- 

 ose and articulated, segments numerous but rather distant 

 from a broad base linear-ensiform subfalcate, veins forming 

 a single large series of costal areoles, veinlets short free, sori 

 numerous much concealed by the copious rufous hairs. — 



■ Metten. Polyp, p. 74. Goniophlebium Villeminianum, Fee, 

 'Jme Mem. F'oug. Nouv. p. 63. t. 27. /. 3 [very good). 



Ilab. Chacapoyas, Peru, Mathews, n. 1811 and 3281. Ecuador, near Pasto, 

 and forests of the eastern Andes, Jameson, Spruce. "New Granada, alt. 3400- 

 3700 metres, Schlim," Fee. — This Fern had been long preserved in niy herbarium 

 as a new species, and has lately been well described by Mettenius, and well figured 

 by M. Fee, I.e. 



260. P. (Goniophlebium) hr'iceum, L. ; caudex creeping 

 deciduously scaly tortuous at length naked and glaucous, 

 stipes pale-brown a span to a foot and more long, fronds 1-2 



