GYMXOGRAMME, § EUG YMXOGRAMME. 131 



uppermost pinnules short confluent rounded, veins pinnated 

 in the pinnules and lobes, veinlets simple or forked, sori 

 elongated simple or forked concealed by the dense sericeous 

 covering, rachises and petioles intensely ebeneous-black when 

 the silky clothing is removed. — Hook. Ic. PI. ix. t. 820. Erio- 

 sorus scandens, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 132. t. 13./'. 1. 



Hab. Peru, Ruiz (Fee) ; Veto, JFm. Lobb ; Ecuador, Pichincha, Jamexnn (old 

 and entirely denuded of its ferruginous silky covering). — A most remarkahle spe- 

 cies, yet evidently allied to G.ferrur/inea; but that is not scandent and is never 

 truly bipinnated as this, and has very differently shaped and sessile pinn;c. 



12. G. (Eugymnogramme) cordata, Schlecht. ; caudex a 

 small erect subglobose rhizome paleaceous above, stipites 

 tufted 1-2 inches long and as well as the rachis deciduously 

 scaly intenselv ebony-black, fronds 3-4 inches to a span 

 long erect or flexuose subcoriaceous bright green above and 

 naked or nearly so beneath densely clothed with ovato-acu- 

 minate subciliato-dentate reticulated imbricated ferruginous 

 scales, pinnae h-\\ inch long oblong more or less cordate at 

 the base and more or less deeply lobato-pinnatifid not unfre- 

 quently again pinnated rarely subauriculate, veins forked cla- 

 vate at the apex, sori oblong. — Schlecht. Adumbr. p. 1 6. Hook, 

 and Grev. Ic. Fit. t. 156. Grammitis, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 23 

 and 217. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 142. Hook. 2d Cent, of Ferns, 

 t. 7 {subbipinnate, var.). Acrostichum cordatum, Th. Ft. Cap. 

 p. 732. Ceterach Capensis, Kze. Anulect. Fterld. p. 13. t. 8. 

 Fee, Gen. Fil. t. 30./. .3 and 4. Gymnogr. Namaquensis, Pappe 

 and Raivson, Gen. Fil. Cup. p. Ad. Ceterach crenata, Kaulf. 



Hab. S. Africa: throughout the Cape Colony, plentiful, and eastward to Uiten- 

 liage; mountains, iMacalisberg, Ecklon and Hurke. St. Helena, alt. 24 00 feet, 

 Dr. Alexander, R.N. , Lieut. Haurjhton (chiefly the bipinnate state). — A variable 

 species certainly, yet easily recognized. 



13. G. (Eugymnogramme) />e(/«/a, Klfs. ; caudex creeping 

 paleaceous at the apex with lanceolate scales rooting with 

 long descending tomentose pinnated fibres, stipites distant 

 2 inches to 1 foot long red-brown glabrous, fronds 2-4 inches 

 long firm subcoriaceo-membranaceous villous above pubes- 

 centi-tomentose beneath cordate quinato-pedate, primary 

 divisions deeply pinnatifid with subtriangular or oblong seg- 

 ments, veins pinnated and several times dichotomous, vein- 

 lets copious soriferous near the margin, sori forming a broad 

 subcontluent band nearer the margin than the costa. — Kaulf. 

 En. Fil. p. G'J. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 42. llemionitis, 



