110 NOTHOCHL^NA. 



bearing small frondiferous bulbs, stipites tufted slender ebene- 

 ous purple pubescent as well as the rachis eventually glabrous 

 and glossy, fronds 2-5 inches in length oblong subcoriacous 

 downy above when young in maturity glabrous green, be- 

 neath densely albo- or ferrugineo-tomentose pinnated, the 

 apex pinnatifid, pinnae |-| of an inch long ovato-oblong 

 deeply more than halfway to the costa pinnatifid, segments 

 oblong obtuse, sori forming a continuous line along the mar- 

 gin and sinuses. — Kze. in Lhmcea, ix. /?. 54, and in Sc/ik. Fil. 

 Suppl. p. 1 14. t. 53./" 1. Gay, Fl. Chil. vi. p. 459. Cheilan- 

 thes, Metten. Cheil. p. 22. 



Hab. Chili, Pcejjjng, and all travellers, Ctiming, n. 200 ; Sierra de Portezuela, 

 southern extremity of the Cordova range, and Tucuman, on earthen walls, Tweedie. 

 — A peculiar and well-marked species. 



6. N. Rawsoni, Pappe ; caudex long creeping paleaceous 

 with membranaceous rigid subulate scales black in the centre, 

 stipites approximate at length naked and ebeneous, fronds a 

 span long linear carnoso-coriaceous pinnated, pinnsR alter- 

 nate rather distant 4-5 lines long subsessile cordato-ovate 

 obtuse lobato-pinnatifid naked above and green beneath very 

 thickly albo- or ferrugineo-pannose with matted hairs, the 

 margins subincrassated very patent, lobes 5-9 rounded ob- 

 tuse, sori marginal continuous, capsules black. — Pappe, in 

 Pappe and Rawsoa's Synops. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 42. Hook. 

 2d Cent, of Ferns, t.'J'J. 



Hab. S.Africa: hills between Spehlakel and Koraaggas, Namaqua-Land, Rev. 

 H. Whitehead, 1856. — Allied to N.ferrnginea, N. sinuata, and N. trichomano- 

 ides, of tropical America, but unquestionably distinct. The caudex is always 

 destitute of bulbs and the pinnae are very different in shape. 1 am indebted to 

 Kawson Wm. Rawson, Esq., C.B., Colonial Secretary at the Cape, and to Rear- 

 Admiral Sir Frederick Grey, K.C.B., for fine specimens. 



** Bijnnnate, or more or less decompound. Sp. 7-27. 



7. N. Candida, Hook. ; caudex creeping or ascending pa- 

 leaceous with black glossy subulate scales ferruginous at the 

 margin, stipites clustered 2-5 inches long ebony-black, fronds 

 1-3^ inches long |-2^ inches wide subdeltoideo-ovate acu- 

 minate bi-tripinnate naked above beneath densely albo-pul- 

 verulent, primary pinnse opposite horizontally patent lowest 

 pair more distant than the rest unequally deltoideo-ovate, the 

 inferior secondary pinnae of the under side elongate and 

 again pinnated the rest pinnate or deeply pinnatifid, pinnules 

 and segments 2-3 lines long oblong obtuse, the margin en- 



