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more or less confluent. — '' Spreuf/. Tent. Suppl.nd Sijst. Vcf/. 

 p. 31." Kze. Aiinlecta Pterid. p. II. t. 8. / 1. Hook. 2d 

 Cent, of Ferns, t.S. Moore. liecistopteris pumWa, J. Sm. in 

 Lond. Joiirn. Bot. i. 193. Fee, Gen. Fit. p. 179. t. 16. B. 



Hal). Tropical America, in moist woods: Guiana, Weigelt. Le Prieur ; Para, 

 Brazil, Spruce, n. 5758. Isle of Coyba, Veraguas, Seemann. Trinidad, Lockhart. 

 Jamaica, March. 



3. G. (Eugyninogramme) marginata, Metten. ; " caudex 

 creeping abbreviated and as well as the base of the stii)ites 

 hairy with fusco-ferriiginous setie, stipes 1 inch long as well 

 as the rachis plane above seniiterete purplish glossy, fronds 

 8-16 inches long f-ly inch broad lanceolate long attenuate 

 acuminate slightly attenuated and obtuse at the apex undi- 

 vided, the margin callose-brown undulato-sinuate two-thirds 

 of the superior part soriferous, veins manifest densely or 

 laxly arranged generally repetito-furcate somewhat as in 

 Neuropteris (sub Neuropteridis), the branches attaining the 

 callose margin free at the apex all soriferous, sori linear con- 

 tinuous rarely interrupted extending from the margin to the 

 lowest forking of the veins, pedicels of the capsules accom- 

 panied by articulated paraphysiform bodies (excrescentiis pa- 

 raphysiformibus) twice or thrice equalling or exceeding the 

 capsules, at length brown." Metten. in Annul. Sc. Nat. 4i/i 

 ser. V. 15. p. 59. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard. — Quite unknown to me. 



** Fronds pedate, pinnate or bi-tripinnate, destitute of pulverulent substance 

 beneath. Sp. 4-42. 



4. G. (Eugymnogramme) Schomburgkiana, Kze. ; caudex 

 short creeping, stipites numerous tufted purple-black glossy 

 3-4 inches to a span long flexuose fragile, fronds firm subco- 

 riaceo-membranaceous sparsely hairy above, more villous and 

 sometimes setose with long hairs beneath, 2^-4-5 inches 

 long I of an inch broad from a rather broad subtruncated 

 base oblong gradually acuminated but obtuse bipinnate be- 

 low pinnato-pinnatifid above, primary pinn;e ovato-oblong ob- 

 ovato-cuneate sessile 2-3-lobed with the lobes entire or bifid, 

 lobes f)f the superior pinnae rounded or obovate obtusely 

 sinuato-dentate, veins more or less forked, sori short oblong, 

 capsules lax. — Are. and Kl. in Linncea, x\.p.40S. Hook. Ic. 

 PL t. 992 [or Cent, of Ferns, t. 92). Anogramme, Fee. 



llah. British Guiana, Richard Schomburf/k. — This is somewhat intermediate be- 

 tween U. ononis and the I'lMuvian (i. niohriafonnis, Metten. 



