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or excised decurrent base ovate obtuse thinner at the margin 

 which is subreflexed and subrepand, sori broad continuous 

 blackish-brown, stipes short and as well as the primary 

 rachis on both sides and together with the secondary rachis 

 winged purplish beneath rufo-paleaceous, caudex short hori- 

 zontal fusco-paleaceous." Kze. in Schk. Fil. Suppl. ii. p. 59. 

 t. 124. /. 2. — " Cheilanthes Moluccana, BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 

 136 ? Ch. Javanica, Kze. Obs. in Fil. Zolling. in Bot. Zeit. 

 Vi.p. 211." Ch. hispidula, Metten. Cheil. p. 26. t. 3./. 12, 

 and Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 212. Mettenius also quotes Ch. te- 

 nuifolia, Kze. Fil. Zoll. n. 237, and J. Sm. Fil. Cum. n. 62. 



Hab. Jdiva, Junghuhn, Zollinger. — If this be the n. 62 of Cuming, from Luzon, 

 as Mettenius considers it to be, I fear it is merely a trifling var. of Cheilanthes 

 tenuifolia : and the figures are not at variance with that well-known plant. 



18. 'N. Mr silt a, Desv. ; caudex short creeping horizontal 

 or ascending clothed with close-placed imbricated subulate 

 ferruginous scales, stipites 2-6 inches long glabrous or hir- 

 sute or below paleaceo-hirsute, fronds firm-membranaceous 

 4-6-8 inches long 1^-2^ inches broad oblong or ovate more 

 or less copiously and variously hirsute often glandular with 

 tawny hairs tripinnate, lowest pair generally distant from 

 the next pair and always tripinnate, the rest pinnate with 

 pinnatifid segments, the segments and pinnules varying much 

 in size from 2-4 lines long and in shape oblong or oval 

 entire or subspathulate often again lobato-pinnatifid at their 

 base, the margin more or less revolute sometimes almost 

 cheilanthoid. — Desv. Journ. Bot. iii. j9. 93. Kaulfs. En. Fil. 

 p. 138. Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 20. Cincinalis, Desv. 

 Cheilanthes, Metten. Cheil. p. 25. Pteris, Poir. Siv. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 104. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 390. N. pilosa, Hook, and 

 Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 74. Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 p. 20. N. sulcata, Meyen. in Link, Hort. Berol. ii. p. 36/. 

 Kze. in Sc/ik. Fil. i. p. 6. t. 3. 



Hab. East Indies, Sonnerat. Pacific: Coral Islands, Seec/iey ; Society Islands, 

 Cuming, n. 1402, Mathews, n. 23 ; and, also, Fiji Island, Ovalau, Erackenridge. 

 China, Vachell ; Whampoa, Hance, n. 148 (some of the specimens exactly re- 

 sembling Kunze's figure of TV. sulcata, 1. c.) : Hongkong, Wilford, Dr. Dill, C. 

 Wright (" N. sulcata"). — Like Cheilanthes tenuifolia, which this resembles in 

 much of its form and ramification, the present Kothochlmia is very variable. 

 Without having seen any authentic specimens of A'^. hirsuta, I am ready to con- 

 cede that this may be that species. Be that as it may, I fear that the A^. sulcata 

 is merely a broad pinnuled form of it, and even that N. densa may be a less com- 

 pound state, and that N. semiglabra may not be specifically distinct. 



19. N . Eckloniana, Kze. ; caudex creeping often oblique 



