140 GYMNOGRAMME, 



broadly subdeltoideo-ovate suddenly acuminate pinnated, pin- 

 nae 5-9 pairs frequently opposite 4-5 inches long spreading 

 from a narrow contracted cuneated base (especially the lower 

 ones) lanceolate acuminate sessile pinnatifid about halfway 

 down to the costa, the apex entire, segments ovate slightly fal- 

 cate entire, terminal pinna the largest and broadest petiolate 

 deeply pinnatifid with oblong falcate segments, veins simple, 

 sori simple linear oblong rather nearer the costule than the 

 margin. — Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. ^. 40. Phegopteris, Metten. 

 Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 82, Phegopt. p. 19. Ceterach, Raddi, Fil. 

 Bras. p. 10. /. 22 {very good). Grammitis, Pr. Leptogramme, 

 /. Sm. Gymnogramme Raddiana, Lk. G. villosa, Lk. ? [very 

 villous) . 



Hah. Brazil, about Rio, Raddi fin Herb. nostr.J, Gardner, v. 119, Milne and 

 Macgillivray, Mrs. Maria Graham. — Well distinguished hy the abrupt narrow cu- 

 neated base of the lower pairs of pinnae and the large terminal one. The distin- 

 guishing characters are well represented by Raddi. 



31. G. (Eugymnogramme) Linkiana, Kze. ; " caudex erect, 

 fronds li-2 feet long membranaceous, on both sides as well 

 as on the petiole pubescent lanceolate pinnated, pinnae nu- 

 merous inferior ones remote ^ an inch long intermediate ones 

 2—4 inches long sessile from a truncato-rotundate base 

 elongato-oblong acuminate pinnatifid the apex produced 

 serrulate, segments oblong subfalcate rotundo-truncate or 

 acute at the apex, veins undivided all soriferous, sori rotun- 

 date or the lowest ones at length linear intermediate be- 

 tween the costule and the margin, capsule generally gla- 

 brous rarely pilose loosely packed." Metten. — Kze. in Lin- 

 naa, xviii.^. 310, and xxiii. p. 310. Leptogramme, /. Stn., 

 Kl. Grammitis, Pr. Gymnogr. polypodioides, Lk. 



Hah. Caraccas, "Pohl." Brazil, Selloiu {Herb. Reg. Berol. in Herb, nostr.). 

 Tarapota, E. Peru, »S/j?'Mce, m. 4017, 4084, and Andes of Ecuador, «. 5285. Mexico, 

 Liebmann, Jilrgensen, n. 888 and 964. — This is very variable in the length of the 

 sori, round or oblong or sublinear, otherwise it has a close affinity with G. rupes- 

 iris, as both have with G. Totta of the Old World. Indeed Mr. Heward, no in- 

 competent judge, in his notes on Jamaica Ferns, gives the G. Lowei, Hook, and 

 Grev. ((?. Totta), as an inhabitant of Jamaica, nieauing probably either G.rupes- 

 tris or G. Linkiana of German authors. 



32. G. (Eugymnogramme) rupestris, Kze.; "caudex erect, 

 fronds 1-2 feet long membranaceous pubescent beneath at 

 length glabrous lanceolate pinnated, pinnte numerous sessile 

 lowest ones abbreviated \-h an inch long intermediate ones 

 2-3 inches lono- from a truncated base oblone acuminate 



