172 ANTROPHYUM. 



—Klfs. En. Fil. p. 199, in note. Kze. Analect. Pterid.p. 30. 

 t. 19. f. 2 {very good). Heniionitis, De^v. Pi\ H. reticu- 

 lata, Raddi. 



Hab. French Guiana, Richard, Le Prieur, Sagot, n. 1119; Guiana, ^os/rwann, 

 n. 1057, Schomburgk,n. 472, Appun. Brazil, Raddi. Para, Spruce, n. 31. Ama- 

 zon; San Gabriel, n. 2369 and 3027, Spruce (fronds much acuminated, the 

 former, n. 2369, remarkable for the " steel-blue tint when fresh." Antr. chaly- 

 bffium, Spruce's »?.?.). — Allied to A. subsessile, but truly distinct; both have a per- 

 current costa, and both have sori subsuperflcial, scarcely at all immersed. 



14. A. Boryamim, Klfs. ; stipes 4-6 inches long broad- 

 compressed, fronds 4-6 inches long 2-2h wide oblong or 

 broad-oblpng lanceolate acute or sublobato-incised coriaceo- 

 membranaceous cuneate at the base and more or less attenu- 

 ated into the stipes, venation slightly prominent beneath, 

 areoles copious oblong hexagonal, sori superficial on the 

 veins not sunk readily deciduous. — Klfs. En. Fil. p. 199 {not 

 Bl). Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 74. Fee, Antroph. p. 49. 

 Bory, Voy. de la Coquille, Crypt, p. 255. t. 29. /. 1. Hemio- 

 nitis, Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 128. H. reticulata, Bory, Voy. i. 

 p. 214. 



Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon, Borj/ and Bojer, in Herb, nostr., Carmichael, 

 Sieber, Fl. Mixta, n. 317. Island of Johanna, east coast of tropical Africa, Dr. 

 Kirk, Zambesi Exped. — If we take the samples figured for this species, as 

 given by Hooker and Greville, and Bory (I.e.), the species may be considered a 

 well-defined one. Carmichael's specimens are much smaller and narrower, 

 and have a very long attenuated base to the fronds. Bory's own specimen in 

 my herbarium is 17 inches long. 3 inches broad in the middle, and is yet broken 

 off before coming to the absolute base, and it has perhaps as much claim to be re- 

 ferred to A. giganteum as to the present species. Our specimen from Johanna 

 Island is quite that of the ordinary form. 



15. h,. latifolium, 'BX. ; stipites 3-4-6 inches long com- 

 pressed 2 lines wide, fronds subcarnoso-coriaceous 3-7 inches 

 long 3-4-5 inches wide ovato-subrhomboidal or obovate 

 suddenly and sharply acuminated and sometimes subinciso- 

 lobate below the acumen, the base cuneate and rather sud- 

 denly attenuated into the stipes, costa none, venation mani- 

 fest, areoles very large oblongo-hexagonal subflabellately di- 

 rected most elongated in the disk, sori chiefly occupying the 

 disk very subsuperflcial elongated simple or branched rarely 

 reticulated. — Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 75, in note. Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. 

 jy. 209. Fee, Jiitroph. p. 4S. Moore. A. Bory Si,num, B I. Fil. 

 Jav. p. 75. t. 3\ {excellent, exd. syns.), not of Hook, and Grev. 

 Hemionitis, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p.Wl {excl. syn.). H. Blume- 

 ana, Pr. Tent. Pterid.p. 221. 



