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Kh Phegopteris, Mettm. FIL Hort. Lips. p. 82. t. \7-ff- 1-4. 

 Metten. Phegopt. p. 16. 



Hab. S. America: Brazil, frequent, New Granada, Otto, w. .'J2G, Moritz, Ji. 35, 

 Birschil; Venezuela, Fendler, n. 17C. 3UG, ;5(J0 ; Veraguas, Seemann, n. 1555; 

 Tara|)()ta, eastern Peru, Spruce, n. .'59(54. — Tliore can be no question but tliat G. 

 a-oplenioides and G. asjjidioides are one anci tlie same species, and very uniform in 

 structure. 



IG. G. (Eugymnogramme) htsej-jjilUfo/ia, Kze. ; caudex 

 creeping paleaceous with black sul)ulate scales, stipites dark- 

 purple glossy deciduously pilose a span and more long, 

 fronds 6-10 inches or a foot or more long 4—8 inches wide 

 firm-mernbranaceous broad-ovate or subtriangular-ovate acu- 

 minate tripinnate more or less villous on both sides and often 

 on the rachis, primary pinnae often very distant, the lowest 

 pair having the lowest inferior secondary pinnce longer than 

 the rest, piinmles 3-4 lines long broad cuneato-flabelliform 

 and fiabellato-pinnatifid, the segments short obtuse entire or 

 en^.arginate, secondary and ultimate rachises winged, veins 

 dichotomous, sori oblong often forked following the course 

 of the veins yellowish. — Kze. in Bot. Zeit. \\\. p. 28.5. G. pi- 

 losa, Kl. G. glandulosa, Karst. Fl. Columb. i. p. 196. t. 97. 



Hab. Columbia, Tovar, Moritz, n. 95, Crnger, Birschill, Fendler, n. 301 and 

 359 (very villous with long soft spreading bracts, and pinnules larger and less 

 divided than usual); Caraccas, Linden, n. 73 (tliis is a foot long, yet wants the 

 upper portion and the base of the frond, and the primary pinna; are wide apart, 

 giving the appearance of a climbing plant). — A very haTidsome species, which 

 Kunze compares with G. leptopliylla and his G. papaveracea, but the perennial 

 caudex, stout ebeneous stipes, and the size and hairiness of the fronds amply dis- 

 tinguish it. 



17. G. (Eugymnogramme) hi.yjidii/a, Kl. ; caudex creep- 

 ing the apex paleaceous with black setaceous scales, stipites 

 6 inches long flexuose black-purple but not glossy sparingly 

 paleaceo-setose, fronds subcoriaceous hispido-setose (as well 

 as the dark purple rachis) 4-5 inches long scarcely an inch 

 wide oblongo -lanceolate not contracted at the base l)ipinnate 

 pinnated at the extremity, primary pinuce h-'i of an inch 

 long, pinnules 7-9 on a secondary rachis rotundato-flabel- 

 late tapering at the base sessile entire except the lowest and 

 the terminal one which are 2-3-lobed the upper side convex 

 the margins much recurved, upper pinnre oblong entire or 

 2-3-lobed, veins flabtllate, sori ol)long subconfluent chieflv 

 occupying the veins in the disk of the ])innules. — A7. in Lin- 

 ticea, XX. p. 407. Jamesonia, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. ii. p. 739, and 

 in Schk. FIL Siippl.lp. 19G. t. 82./. 2. 



