GYMNOGRAMME, § E UG YMNOGR AM AIE. 143 



Ilah. Japan, iiinist banks, Okosima, Oldham, 1801. — A very distinct species, 

 but, like tbe coinpoiiiid species of Dlplazia, not easily described in words. Its 

 nearest affinity is witb G. obhtsala, but bere all tbe pinnules are connected by a 

 membranous wing on the racbis. 



37. G. (Eugymnograrnme) obtusuta, Bl. ; caudex ?, stijMtes 

 \\ and more feet long, fronds 2 feet and more long nearly 

 a foot wide at base subdeltoideo-ovate acute membranaceous 

 pubescent on tbe racbises and costae bipinnate below, pinnate 

 in the middle, pinnatifid at the apex, lower primary pinnae 

 petiolate 6 inches long 3 inciies wide oblongo-ovate, their pin- 

 nules 1-1.7 inch long less than \ an inch wide oblong sessile 

 and adnate and slightly decurrent at the base obtuse or acute 

 lobato-pinnatifid, the lol^es retuse or emarginate, intermediate 

 primary pinn^^e deeply pinnatifid sinuato-serrate, veins fasci- 

 culato-pinnate a fascicle to each lobe of tiie pinnules or large 

 segments soriferous onlv at the liase of ti>e lower branches, 

 sori oblong forked. — Bl, Fil. Jav. p. 97. t. 43 {excellent). 

 Phegopteris opaca, Met fen. Phegopt.p. 15. Hemionitis, Don, 

 and Gymnogvvimme, Spr. {fide Met ten.) Gymnogr. arbores- 

 cens, De Vriese, in Herb, nostr. 



Ilab. Nepal, fVallich. Kbasya, Griffith. Java, Blume, De Vriese. 



38. G. (E[iorymnogramme) vestit a, Hook.; caudex creep- 

 ing shaggy with long sericeous fulvous soft hairs, stipites ag- 

 gregated S-6 inches long sericeo-lanate, fronds 6 inches to a 

 foot long 1-l.j inch broad (everywhere) including the rachis, 

 copiously strigose with appressed sericeous aureo-nitent hairs 

 most glossy and more copious beneath subcoriaceo-membra- 

 naceous pinnated to the very apex, pituice h to nearly 1 inch 

 long petiolate cordato-ovate or oblongo-ovate obtuse entire, 

 veins numerous oblique simple clothed with narrow lines of 

 the forked sori. — Hook. Ic. PI. ii. /. 115. Grammitis ?, irull. 

 Cat. n. 12. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya, alt. 7-8000 feet, jrallich{mont. altiss., Kaniaon),w. 12, 

 Grijfilh, Col. Bates, Madden, Lady Dathousie, Tliomson, Straclieij and JJ'inlerbnt- 

 torn, Edyeworth. — A most lovely species, quite confined to N.W. Himalaya, with 

 fronds in shape much resembling luxuriant leaves of Polononiiim ccpruleum or 

 some Oriental Astragalus, AnA richly covered with glossy golden long silky hairs, 

 most brilliant on tbe under side. 



39. G. (Kugymnogramme) MaeUeri, Hook.; caudex creep- 

 ing underground, stipes 1-2 inches long, fronds 7 and pro- 

 bal)ly more inches long 1 r^ inch wide carnoso-coriaceous pin- 

 nated, pinnte alternate rather distant ^-J of an inch long 

 patent sessile ovate obtuse cordate at the base entire clothed 



