120 NOTHOCHL^NA. 



2-3 inches long stout and as well as the rachis and all the rest 

 of the plant especially on the under side pannose with dense 

 stellated ash-coloured or ferruginous tomentum, fronds co- 

 riaceous 5-11 inches long scarcely 1-1^ inch broad lanceo- 

 late attenuated at the base bi-subtripinnate, primary pinnae 

 (greenish above) erecto-patent shortly petiolate |-1 inch long 

 narrow oblong, secondary ones scarcely 2 lines long sessile 

 oblong lobato-pinnatifid or again pinnated with 3-4 very mi- 

 nute orbicular pinnules, the margins subreflexed and bearing 

 the sori of few capsules just within it. — Kze. in Linncea, ix. 

 p. 54, and in Schk. Fil. Suppl. i. p. 115. t. 53./. 2. Gmj, Fl. 

 Chil.vi.p.496. Cheilanthes, Pr. Metten. Cheil. p. 29. No- 

 thochleena Doradilla, Colla, PL Chil. Ear. p. 46. t. 73. 



Hab. Chili, Valparaiso, Coquimbo, Poeppig, Cuming, n. 80, Ph. Germain, Ber- 

 tero, Harvey. — A distinct and well-marked species, somewhat approaching A'^ 

 lanuginosa in structure and ramification. When dry, the primary pinnae become 

 involute. 



26. N. Marant(2, Br.; caudex a stout horizontal rhizome, 

 densely paleaceous with soft silky ferruginous finely pointed 

 subulate scales, stipites generally stout purplish-black 3-6 

 inches long aggregated setosely and densely hirsute as well 

 as the rachis, fronds 4-5-10 inches long 2-2^ inches wide 

 oblongo -lanceolate carnoso-coriaceousglabrousabove, beneath 

 densely clothed with ferruginous oblongo-lanceolate imbri- 

 cated scales bipinnate, primary pinnae petiolate or sessile 

 from a broadish obtuse base oblongo-acuminate, pinnules not 

 numerous approximate sessile 2-3 lines long very obtuse 

 entire, upper ones confluent at the base (as are the termi- 

 nal primary pinnae) the edge scarcely reflexed, sori form- 

 ing a broad border extending some way from the margin to- 

 wards the costule much concealed by the paleaceous cover- 

 ing. — Br. Prodr. Nov. HolL p. 146. Desv. Webb. Fl. Canar. 

 iii. p. 455. N. subcordata, Desv. Acrostichum Marantae, 

 Linn. Sp. PL p. 1527. Schk. FIL t. 4. Sw. Syn. FiL p. 14. 

 Willd. Sp. PL V. p. 122. Sibth. FL Gr. t. 964. Ceterach, 

 De Cand. Gymnogramme, Metten. A. Canariense, Willd. 

 Sp. PL v. p. 121. 



Hah. S. of Europe, throughout the Mediterranean region. N. Africa and ad- 

 jacent islands of Madeira, Canaries, Azores, Cape de Verdes. Abyssinia, Schimper, 

 n. 742 and 995. N.W. India, Edgetvorth ; Kumaon, Sttachey and Winterbottom ; 

 Kumalari, /. Carter, Esq. : above Simla, Col. Bates ; eastward to Sikkim and 

 Bhotan, Griffith, Hooker fil. and Thomson, alt. 14,000-15,000 feet.— The uni- 

 formly entire margin to the pinnules distinguishes this from the Cape N. Ecklo- 



