ANTROIMIYUM. 17^ 



and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 46. A. Hookcrianum, Fee, Antroph. p. 

 46. Moore. Hemionitis, Pr. Tent. Pterid.p. 221. H. im- 

 mersa, Bory, in Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 127 {and in my Herb.). 

 Pr. 



I lab. Bourbon, Bort/, in Herb, noslr. Mauritius, Carmkhacl, Bojer, and 

 others, evideutly comnioii tbere. — My numerous specimens are very uniform in size 

 and shape, and are well represented l)y Ur. Greville's beautiful figures in Ic. Fil. I 

 cannot but wonder therefore that Fee should consider it a new species and confer 

 my name upon it ; an<l still more, that Moore should assent to this, for he had the 

 oi)portunity of seeing on tlie same sheet Bory's Hemionitis immersa in my herba- 

 rium, and this is the original authority for the species. The excellent Kaulfuss, 

 no doubt, altered the specific name, which is inconsistent with its now generic 

 name.* It is singular that one of the best marked species of this difiicult genus, 

 as far as I yet know, should be so mis\inderstood. M. Fee, as already remarked, 

 has confounded the Bourbon plant with the P. parvulum of Blume. 



B. Sori superficial. — Sp. 12-24. 



12. A. subsessile, Kze. ; frond sessile membranaceo-coria- 

 ceous 6-14 inches long h-l\ inch wide spathulato-lanceolate 

 obtusely acuminate or rarely quite obtuse, from above the 

 middle gradually attenuated downwards and decurrent to the 

 very base, costate to the apex, costa slender prominent be- 

 neath, areoles large oblongo-hexagonal having an obliquely 

 patent direction, sori subsuperficial linear obliquely patent 

 elongated often forked but rarely reticulated. — K::e. Anal. 

 Pterid.p. 29. t. 19./. 1 {excellent). Fee, Antroph. p. AT. 

 Moore. A. Cayennense, Kze. in Linmea, ix.p. 78 {excl. syn.) . 

 A. discoideum, Kze. Bot. Zeit. \\. p. 702 {Fee). Hemionitis 

 Brasiliana, Desv. Antrophyum spathulatum, Fee, Antroph. 

 p. 46. t. 4./. 6. 



Ilab. Peru, Pmppig ; Tarapota, Eastern Peru, m. 4640 (fronds obtuse). Ecuador, 

 Andes oi i^mio, Jameson, n. 704. New Granada, Morilz, n. 84. FeniUer,n. 305, 

 Schlim, n. Sbl, Linden, n. 71, Pitrdie, n. 1.3, Jurgenseii. Cul)a, C. Wright, n. 

 775.— A well-marked species, extremely unlike any of those of the Old World, most 

 allied to the following, A. Cayennense. 



13. A. Cayennense, Klfs. ; stipites 1-3 inches long rather 

 slender, fronds coriaceo-membranaceous 6-10 inches long 

 1-1 4 inch broad oblongo-lanceolate shortly acuminate rarely 

 obtuse gradually tapering at the base into the stipes, costate 

 to the apex, costa slender prominent beneath, areoles large 

 oblongo-hexagonal erecto-patent, sori suljsuperficial linear 

 oi)liqucly patent elongated often forked but rarely reticulated. 



* From avTpov, a cavern or cavity, and (pvta, I grow, because the sori are pro- 

 duced in cavities or clefts of the cuticle ; not, as Loudou has it, " because the 

 plant is found in shady caverns." 



