NOTHOCHLiENA. 107 



p. 29. t. 115. — Var. 7, cinnamomea; stipites 3-6 inches long 

 thick as a pigeon's quill, frond broader, pin nee very concave 

 subsecund glossy. J. cinnamomea, Kze. in Schk. Fll.f. 1. 

 p. 169. t. 71./. 2 {very f/ood). Hook. Ic. PL t. 713.— Var. S, 

 verticalis ; stipites stout thick as a pigeon's quill 12-15 inches 

 long, fronds short in proportion 6-10 inches long, pinnae 

 large vertical horizontally i)atent broad ovate from the greater 

 rccurvature of the margin at the sides scarcely villous (pro- 

 bably from age). J. verticalis, Kze. in Schk. Fil. Sup/jl. p. 

 194. t. 82./. 1. 



Ilab. a, Andes of Ecuador, Jameson, frequent, n. 25, 327, 708 (alt. 14,000 

 feet). N. Granada, Schlim, n. 479 and 364, Moritz, n. 338 (J. scalaris, Kze., Kl.), 

 Linden, n. 519 (coinnion form, together with specimens with all the leaves verti- 

 cal ; one of them has the frond 22 inches long with distant patent leaves) and 

 52.). Peru, Maihexrs, n. 979, Lechler, n. 2153, 2036, and 2032 ("7. scalaris,'" 

 very slender and small), Purdie. The above present the ordinary form of the 

 l)liint as represented in the figures quoted. — Var. 0, canescens ; Ecuador, Jame- 

 son, n. 60, Spruce. New Granada, Moritz, n. 339, Schlim, 850 (one specimen 

 forked near the base), 844, 363 (" /. roiundifolia," evidently old specimens of this 

 variety partially bald), Holton, n. 25. Many of the specimens of this variety are 

 exquisitely beautiful, from the rich clothing of silky hairs quite concealing the 

 piiuiic, and some are so erect and cylindrical and hairy as to resemble in minia- 

 ture some of the Cactuses of the group of Cereus senilis. — Var. y, cinnamomea. 

 This has only been found by Jameson, volcano of Pasto, 14,000 feet, n. 12, and 

 by Ilartweg, n. 1516. I can only consider it a gigantic form of/, imbricata. — 

 Var. 5, verticalis. This has only been found by Hartweg, Andes of Popayan, 

 I'cru, n. 1848 and 1504. 



2. NOTHOCHL^NA, Br. 



(Hook. Gen. Fil. tab. LXXVI. CincinaHs, Desv. 

 Cheilanthes and Gymnogramme, Metten., in part.) 



Sori marginal, oblong or sublinear, or, if short and subro- 

 tund, situated at the apex of the simple or forked veins and 

 coniiuent into a continuous or interrupted marginal line or 

 sorus. No distinct involucre, but the edge of the frond is 

 sometimes a little reflexed and subindusioid. — Usually small, 

 more or less compoKud Ferns, often hairy or ivoolly or cerea- 

 ceoHS beneath, with habit and sori of Cheilanthes, so that the 

 limits of the two genera are not easily defined. Some species 

 border too closely on Gynmogramme. 



* Fronds jmmate. Sp. 1-6. 



1. 'J^.simiata, Klfs. ; caudex creeping and clothed with 

 subulate ferruginous scales and bearing bulbiforui knobs as 

 large as hazel-nuts similarly paleaceous and from which the 



