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his valuable Mem. sur les Foug. Notiv. p. 128. I wish I could say tlicy have 

 tended to clear up the great difficulty of the synonymy. 



294. P. (Campyloneuron) lucidum, Beyr. Hb. ; caudcx 

 creeping thick much-branched, young branches partially 

 scaly the rest naked, stipites aggregated 1-2 inches long, 

 fronds 6 inches to a foot long i-J of an inch wide oblongo- 

 or linear-lanceolate glabrous moderately thick carnoso-coria- 

 ceous (very fragile when living) singularly glossy as if var- 

 nished when dry moderately tapering at the base, the margin 

 scarcely thickened, strongly costate chiefly fertile in the upper 

 half, veins immersed primary veins not costuliform, primary 

 large areoles costular a secondary but very irregular series of 

 smaller ones not extending to the margin constitute the rest, 

 these are subquadrangular with here and there a small trian- 

 gular one, no free marginal veinlets, every areole has its free 

 i>!cluded soriferous veinlet, the costal one has generally a 

 forked veinlet with the sori at the junction of the branches. 

 — Campyloneurum lucidum, ^' Moore, in Sim, Cat. of Ferns, 

 1858." C. rigidum, /. Sm. Cult. Ferns, p. 13. Polypod. ni- 

 tidum. Hook, [not Kaulfs.) Fit. Exot. t. \2 [excluding all the 

 synonyms). P. taeniosum, 7, Metten. Folyp.j). 82. 



Hah. Brazil (Bpyrich), Sellow (" Campyl. nitidum, A7." in Herb, nostr.), 

 Ladi/ Culcott, M'Rae, Swainson. — If there were no other character, the singularly 

 vernicose surface of the dried specimen would always distinguish this species. 



295. P. (Campyloneuron) /ama/e, Willd. ; caudex creep- 

 ing more or less paleaceous at length naked, stipites often 

 aggregated varying from almost none to 4-6 inches in length 

 stramineous, fronds firm-membranaceous or subcoriaceous 

 opaque glabrous .3-4 inches to 1-1 1 foot long ^-If i'lch wide 

 elongato- or spathulato-lanceolate acuminate gradually taper- 

 ing from above the middle downwards so as often to form a 

 long and decurrent wing on the stipes, venation usually indis- 

 tinct, primary veins distant anastomosing so as to form a series 

 of large costal areoles including a free veinlet and one or two 

 rarely more irregular and more or less arched series between 

 the costal one and the margin including 1-.3 soriferous vein- 

 lets, sori usually small and mostly irregularly scattered over 

 the back of the frond.— fnild. Sp. PI. v. p. 15G. Metten. 

 Polyp, p. 82. Campyloneuron, Pr. Polvp. lapathifolium, 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 28. ff'illd. Sp. PI. v. p. 'iGO. Kaddi, Fil. 

 Bras. p. 15. /. 24. /. .3. P. lanciforme, Pr., and Campano- 

 leuron lanciforme, Pr., Tent. Pterid. p. 19./. 7-/- 15 [venation 



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