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usually anastomosing so as to form elongated soriferous 

 areoles, veinlets free and not unfrequently the veins also, 

 sori oval or very much elongated large oblique. — " Cav. Pra'l. 

 1804. p. 604." Jn/kL Sp. PL v. p. 1G4. Meite?i. Polyp, p. 72. 

 Synammia, Pr. Gay. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. WO. A. Mecosorus, 

 Kl. Goniophlebium, Moore. P. glaucescens, Bory, in Dup. 

 Voy. Bot. p. 260. 



Hab. South California, Concepcion to Valdivia, Chiloe, etc. {Cavanilles), Pcpp- 

 pig. King, Germain, Harvey, Philippi, Lechler,n. 509, Bridges, n.SlO (on Apple- 

 trees, Valdivia). — A handsome species, with a very bad name, somewhat allied to 

 P. translucens, Kze., but different in the nearly entire margins and the obliquely 

 patent segments, but above all in the singahirly elongated sori. 



264. P. (Goniophlebium) cnsiforme, Thunb. ; caudex stout 

 creeping with short branches densely clothed with sulmlate 

 fimbriated scales, stipes stout 5-6 inches long red-brown, 

 fronds a span to a foot and more long 4-5 inches broad 

 firm-coriaceous oblongo-ovate deeply pinnatifid with from 

 3-13 remote erecto-patent segments 3-5 rarely 6 inches long 

 \-h an inch wide elongate linear-oblong obtuse very decur- 

 rent at the base, terminal one the longest, veins forming a 

 single series of large oblong areoles soriferous in the upper 

 segments, veinlets free, sori somewhat sunk sometimes very 

 large and prominent subglobose, principal costie very ele- 

 vated hene^ith.— Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 135. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 31. 

 WiUd. Sp. PI. p. 165. Kze. in Schk. Fil. Suppl. i. p. 117- t. 

 54 {excl. f. a.). Metten. Polyp, p. 73. Marginaria, Pr. 

 Pappe et kaivs. En. Fil. Cap. p. 39. Goniophlebium, Fee, 

 Gen. Fil. t.2l. B.2. Phlebodium, J. Sm. 



Ilab. South Africa : Cape of Good Hope to Natal. 



265. P. (Goniophlebium) patens, J. Sm.; caudex rather 

 thick creeping clothed with copious ferruginous very slender 

 long subulate crisped scales, stipites 2-4 inches long strami- 

 neous glossy, fronds subcoriaceo-membranaceous G-10 inches 

 long 4-9 inches wide subdeltoid lower half pinnated upper 

 half deejily nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, segments and 

 pinnte 3-6 inches long r^-\ an inch wide, terminal segment 

 much elongated, all very patent linear-oblong gradually acu- 

 minated opposite or alternate singularly decurrent at the 

 base, the margin very obscurely serrate, veins forming a 

 single series of large soriferous areoles, marginal veinlets 

 short free clavate, sori orbicular intermediate between the 

 costa and margin. — /. Sm. in Seem. Bot. of the ' Herald,' 

 p. 230. 



