130 GYMNOGRAMME, § EUGYMNOGRAMME. 



p. 385. /. 112 {where for Cryptogramme read Gymnogramme). 

 G. refracta, Kze. and Kl. in Linndsa, v. 20. p. 410. 



Hah. Tropical America : Venezuela, Humboldt and Bonpland.Purdie ; Sierra 

 Nevada, alt. 7000 feet, ScMim, n. 367, 845, Linden, n. 520, Moritz, n. 359, Fend- 

 ler, n. 300 ; Nicaragua, C. Wright ; Ecuador, woods near Cuenca, alt. 8-10,000 

 feet, growing on the ground; ?e\u, Mathews, n. \\\2 and \'62Q, Seem ami, n. 

 961, Lechler, n. 2247. — An extremely well marked and interesting species, better 

 known by the name G. retrofraeta than by the much older one oi flexuosa, in 

 consequence of the incomplete description of the latter, without any allusion to 

 its affinities. 



10. G. (Eugymnogramme) ferrug'inea, Kze. ; caudex short 

 erect or ascending ferrugineo-lanose, stipites tufted 6 inches 

 to 1 foot long and (as well as the rachis and the entire frond 

 beneath) densely ferrugineo-lanose ebony-black on the re- 

 moval of the wool, fronds coriaceous glabrous above except 

 on the costse 12-14 inches long 3-4 inches wide oblong acu- 

 minate pinnate, pinnae spreading approximate 2-4^ inches 

 long \-\ inch wide from a broad sessile base oblong gra- 

 dually acuminated but obtuse at the apex pinnatihd nearly 

 to the rachis almost quite so in some of the lowest pinnae 

 where that portion of the frond is bipinnate, segments ho- 

 rizontal broad or narrow-oblong obtuse or acute entire or 

 dentato-crenate, veins erecto-patent generally once or twice 

 forked bearing the rather lax narrow lines of sori which are 

 simple or forked on the veins. — Kze. in Linntea, ix. p. 34. 

 Eriosorus Ruizianus, Fee, Gen. FiL p. 152. 1. 13./. 2. — Var. /3, 

 lanata ; subbipinnate less woolly beneath, segments or pin- 

 nules broader subsinuato-pinnatifid, sori chiefly confined to 

 the branches of the veins. Gymnogram.me lanata, Kl. in 

 Braun, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1854.^.17. Metten. Fil. llort. 

 Lips. p. 12. 



Hab. Hot dry banks, Peru, Pw.ppig, in Herh. nostr., Matheivs, n. 1847 ; Veragua, 

 Seemann, n. 1 125. Var. j8, Veragua (Klotzsch) .—Kimze well defines this as " Filix 

 speciosissima." In one of my specimens the caudex and base of the stipites are 

 very sericeo-lanose. 



11. G. (Eugymnogramme) aureo-nitens, Hook.; caudex?, 

 stipites?, fronds 12-16 inches and more long coriaceous, the 

 rachis stout flexuose scandent elongato-oblong bipinnate 

 everywhere densely sericeo-tomentose aureo-fulvous beneath, 

 primary pinnae very distant between 2-3 inches apart alternate 

 4-6 inches and more long (including the stout petiole often an 

 inch long) deltoideo-oblong gradually but very bluntly acumi- 

 nated, pinnules horizontal approximate deltoideo-oblong very 

 obtuse |-1 \ inch long sessile piimatifid deeply so at their base, 



