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the whole length on each side with a narrow wing from the 

 decurrent bases of the lowest piniipc, fronds {sterile) firm mem- 

 l)ranaceous nearly 1 foot long trifoliolatc, leaflets or pinnae 

 (3-10 inches long if to 1 inch wide petiolate alternate articu- 

 lated on the rachis and deciduous, terminal pinna the largest 

 and broadest lanceolate finely acuminate subsinuato-crenate 

 gradually attenuate at the base into a narrow wing on the 

 petioles and stipes, all of them thickened by a line at the 

 very margin, veins approximate numerous subhorizontal pa- 

 tent simple or forked extending to and united with the thick- 

 ened margin, costa pale greenish-brown beneath, sori ? (Tab. 



ccxcviii.) 



Hab. Trees on niountains, Xaviti Levu, Fiji Islands, Milne, n. 108, not found 

 in fructification. — I give this ))lant a place and a name here, though it may have 

 little or nothing to do with this group of Ferns. The pinna; are clearly jointed 

 on the slender and always winged rachis, and there is evidently a marginal (not 

 intramarginal vein which unites all the transverse veins. 



57. G. (Syngramme) obtusifolia, Hook.; caudex creeping 

 underground copiously and long radicant, stipites aggregated 

 very slender flexuose2-3 inches long stramineous glossy, fronds 

 simple coriaceous glossy 6-9 inches long \-\ an inch wide {fer- 

 tile owes generally the longest and narrowest) linear-spathulate 

 flexuose very obtuse at the apex (singularly so and broad in the 

 sterile fronds) quite entire, the margin scariose, the costa pale 

 stramineous beneath, veins prominent and very conspicuous on 

 the upperside not at all so nor even manifest beneath, subho- 

 rizontally patent numerous simple or forked extending to and 

 uniting with an intramarginal vein close to the callous edge, 

 not a few of these veins anastomose but by no means com- 

 monly so, sori oblong rather than linear simple or rarely 

 forked most numerous near the margin. (Tab. CCXCIX.) 



Hal). Java, De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 20G. — The slender and very flexuose 

 stipes and the long attenuated flexuose base of the frond and very obtuse apices 

 give this Fern a iieculiar aspect. It is very different from the two preceding spe- 

 cies and i)erhaps in general habit and texture more allied to G. viffcpformis; but 

 the stipites are very different, and there is here clearly uo marginal anasto- 

 mosing of the veins. 



58. G. (Syngramme) Loblnnna, Hook. ; caudex creeping 

 partly clothed with short black hairs, stipites subaggregated 

 l:f-2 inches long eljony-black very glossy as is the costa be- 

 neath, fronds simple firm-coriaceous opaque 7-10 inches long 

 glabrous .v-Jf of an inch wide narrow lanceolate or broader 

 below the middle much and gradually acuminated eiitire, 

 veins numerous erecto-patent simple or forked free to within 



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