164 MENISCIUM. 



made from them ; so that if they are wrong I liave not figured or described the 

 species at all. 



4. M. saIic}foIium,WsL\\.; very glabrous, caudex ?, stipites 

 a foot or more long and as well as the rachis stramineous- 

 brown very glossy, fronds 1-H foot long subovate subcoria- 

 ceo-membranaceous pinnated, pinnae rather distant spreading 

 6-7 inches long 4-5 lines broad near the middle, linear-lan- 

 ceolate very long and finely acuminate and very much and 

 gradually and finely attenuated into the stipes, the margins 

 quite entire, soriferous veins 4-7 the prolonged veinlet short, 

 sori oblong formed of two confluent rounded ones. — ITalL 

 Cat. n. 63. Hook. Ic. PI. x. t. 990 {or Cent, of Ferns, t. 90). 



Hab. Penang, Wallich, Sir Wm. Norris. Singapore, Hance, n. 990, Thos. 

 Lohb. 



5. M. angustifolium, Willd. ; caudex short underground 

 erect or ascending, stipites subaggregated a span to 1-2 feet 

 long subpubescent at length glabrous (not glossy) subpalea- 

 ceous at the base, rachis and costse beneath always downy, 

 fronds firm-membranaceous dark-green 8-10 inches to 14 

 foot long 4-10 inches wide pinnated, pinnae 4-6 inches long 

 \-% of an inch wide alternate subpetiolate from a cuneate and 

 moderately attenuated base linear-lanceolate finely acumi- 

 nated quite entire at the margin those of the fertile fronds 

 always the narrowest, soriferous veinlets 6-8 between the 

 costules, medial prolonged veinlet continuous, sori oblong of 

 two confluent ones, capsules soon deciduous. — IVilld. Sp. PI. 

 v.p. 133. 



Hab. S. America, Caraccas, " Bredemeyer ;" Venezuela, Fiincke, n. 445. Pa- 

 nama, Fendler. n. 423, Seemann, n. 377. Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 

 3978. W. Indies : Jamaica, Purdie, Wilson, n. 510 ; Cuba,n. 781.— This is very 

 distinct in its much smaller size, subdimorphous fronds, narrow and quite 

 entire pinnse, from any South American species, and has a much closer affiinity 

 with the East Indian M. salicifolium. 



6. M. pauciflorum, Hook. ; caudex a thick erect or ascend- 

 ing rhizome with copious wiry roots, stipites tufted 4 inches 

 to a foot long stramineous-brown and as well as the rachis 

 glossy, fronds very firm membranaceous dark-green 8-18 

 inches long 3-6 inches wide lanceolate acuminate pinnate 

 to the apex where it is often proliferous, pinnae numerous 

 patent Ij-Si inches long 2-3 lines wide near the middle 

 linear-lanceolate finely acuminate and finely attenuated with 

 a slender thickened pale margin very sharply coarsely and 

 regularly subspinulosely serrated chiefly near the middle. 



