128 GYMNOGRAMME, § EUG YM XOGRAMME. 



5. G. (Eugymnogramme) 0//oww, Kl. ; " caudex subrepent 

 setoso-paleaceous, stipites 5—7 inches long castaneous, fronds 

 5-8 inches long scarcely an inch wide linear acuminate sub- 

 coriaceous on both sides sparingly articulato-pilose, primary 

 pinnae rather distant subsecund when dry ^-1 inch long 2-4 

 lines wide, pinnules |-1^ line broad suborbiculato-flabellate 

 shortly petioled, the margin I'emotely inciso-crenate, sori on 

 the forked veins, partial rachises subpilose." Kl. in Linncea, 

 XX. JO. 408. 



Hah. Venezuela, mountain regions in arid places, C. Otto, n. 630. — I possess 

 only one incomplete authentic specimen of this prett\' Fern, which is perhaps too 

 nearly allied to G. Schomhurgkiana, chiefly distincuished by the narrower more 

 elongated more rigid and more glabrous fronds and more entire pinnules. 



6. G. (Eugymnogramme) mohrioeformis, Metten. ; caudex 

 creeping, stipites purplish-black tufted numerous 3-4 inches 

 long glossy slender flexuose near the base hispid with reddish 

 and here and there glandular hairs, fronds 2^ inches long 

 from a broad truncated base 1 inch wide subpyramidal ob- 

 long obtuse firm-membranaceous and as well as the blackish 

 rachis, hispid with reddish hairs subbipinnate pinnate l)elow, 

 inferior primary pinnee opposite all horizontal, pinnules or 

 segments or lol)es 1-2^ lines long cuneato-subrotund inciso- 

 crenate, veins twice or thrice forked, sori oblong small on 

 the veins of the disk of the segments. — Kze. in Metten. Fit. 

 Lechl. p. 9. 



Hab. St. Gavan, Peru, Lecfiler. Mettenius also quotes " Mathews, Peruvian 

 Plants, n. 23," which I do not find in my herbarium. — This is of the same group 

 as G. Ottonis and G. Schomhurgkiana, but it has a much stouter caudex, the frond 

 is very ditt'erent in shape and less decidedly bipinnate. It is well nained G. 

 mohriceformis. Mettenius well observes that Mathews, n. 1814 (our G. Mathev;sii), 

 from Peru, corresponds with this ; but my very perfect specimens seem quite 

 different both in habit and character. 



7. G. (Eugymnogramme) Mathewsii, Hook. ; caudex (on a 

 young specimen) subrepent, stipites tufted (of my perfect 

 specimen) 5 inches long stout thick as a crow's quill purple- 

 l)lack ebeneousand as well as the stout rachis glanduloso-vil- 

 lous with ferruginous crisped spreading hairs, fronds subco- 

 riaceous 14 inches long (the apex not fully developed and 

 very hairy) glanduloso-villous on both sides paler beneath 

 broad-lanceolate bipinnate, primary pinnae in nearly opposite 

 patent (or below reflexed) distant pairs (especially the lowest 

 ones) 2\ inches long in the middle sessile from a broad base 

 1 inch wide gradually tapering to an obtuse apex hence sub- 



