gymxogua:mme, § eigymnocramme. 139 



inches long h-^ of an inch wide sessile or nearly so from a 

 scarcely contracted base oblong-acuminate pinnatifid ratber 

 more than balfvvay down to the racbis, segments ovate ob- 

 tuse entire, veins all simple lowest opposite pair meeting at 

 tbe sinus but not uniting, sori linear extending from the cos- 

 tule to near tbe margin. — Schlechi. Advinbr. PL p. 15. /. 6. 

 Grammitis, Pr. Hook. Gen. f.']2. B. Leptogramme. ./. Sm. 

 Polypodium, WiUd. Sp. PL v. p. 201. Gymnogramme Lowei, 

 Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 89. G. aspidioides, BL G. mol- 

 lissima, Fiscli. Kze. in Linncca, xxiii. jo. 310. Polypod. Afri- 

 canum, Desv. Phegopteris Totta, Metten. Phegopt. p. 18. 



llab. South Africa: Cape Colony, Madeira, Lowe and others; St. Michael's, 

 Azores, J. C. Hunt, Esq. ; Ahy ?:%\n\a., Schimper. Tropical Africa : Fernaiuio Po, 

 on the Peak, alt. 1500 feet, «. 358, and on the Caineroons, 70C0 feet, n. 1375, 

 O. Maim. India: N.W. Provinces, Edgev-orth, Griffith; Kiiinaon, 4-800 feet, 

 Thomson ; Simla. Neilgherries, Assam, Ceylon, Mrs. General Walker. Java, 

 hlume. Japan, Simoda, C. Wright ; Port Hamilton and Tsussinia, off the coast 

 of Corea, Jl'ilford ; Kino Oliosima, Oldham, n. 107. 



29. G. {Y.ugymno^VRmme) (/raci/is, Hew. ; caudex " erect," 

 stipites short stramineous brown glossy, fronds 2^ to 5 feet 

 long 10-14 inciies broad glabrous tirm subcoriaceo-membra- 

 naceous broad oblong-lanceolate (in one instance very long- 

 attenuated below by many dwarfed opjjosite deltoid pinnae) 

 pinnated, pinnae G-8 inches long patent 1-H inch wide 

 broad oblongo-lanceolate acuminate sessile pinnatifid nearly 

 down to the costa, segments patent linear oblong often an 

 incb long entire straight or subfalcate, veins rather distant 

 very straigbt all soriferous, sori linear sbort close to the mar- 

 gin. (Tab. CCXCII.) — Heivard, Jean. Ferns, in Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist. N. Ser. 1838. Leptogramme {and L. attenuatal, J. Sm. 

 Phegopteris, Metten. Phegopt. p. 17- Grannuitis Hewardii, 

 Moore. 



Ilab. Jamaica, Hevard, TVilson,n. 127 J/flrcA,w.268,362 (fronds 3-5 feet long), 

 P?(rrf/e (Westmoreland County). " Venezuela, Moritz, n. 35," in Herb. Hook., and 

 marked " Leptogramme aspidioides, Kl. ;" and Klolzsch quotes the same Mim/jer in 

 Linncpa, p. 20, for that species, but the tiro are totallg unlike.— 'Wxk is a very 

 peculiar and most distinct species of Gymnogramme, yet a good deal reset\il)ling 

 Fee's G. microcarpa (8me Mem. Foug. Nouv. t. 20. f. 5, referred by Mettenius 

 to Phegopteris decttssata), hut tliere the sori are figured and described as close to 

 the costule, here they are confined to the niargins : but if. as there is too much 

 reason to fear, the sori of Gymnogramme pass into those of Polypodium, then P. 

 dvcussalum and possibly P. rude are the same specifically. 



30. G. (Eugymnogramme) />o/7/;jof/?o/V/c5, Sprcng. ; caudex 

 " creeping," stipites 4 inches to a span long, fronds membra- 

 naceous subhirsutulous 8 12 inches lonfr 5-8 inches wide 



