178 VITTARIA. 



Hal). Bonrbon, Bory. Mozambique, Forbes. Ceylon, Mrs. Gcnl. WaJcer, n. 

 210. — Fronds 2 feet long, 9 lines wide. Candex creeping, paleaceous with subu- 

 late scales. I possess specimens from the same source as M. Fee's (Ceylon), 

 bearing the same number, 210. M. Fee compares it with my Tanioptcris, and 

 justly, for I have now long been aware that that genus, published when Vittaria 

 was scarcely known (except as having the sori in a 2-lipped groove formed in the 

 very margin of the frond), is one and the same with Tceniopsis of J. Sm., which in- 

 cludes those VitiaricB wliich have the sorus on the under surface at a greater or 

 less distance from the margin. Believing it then to have the characters of a 

 genus, I gave it also a sjjecific name ; but my original specimens having gone 

 astray, I willingly abandon the name of species as well as of the genus. Haplo- 

 ptcris scolopendrina, now considered l)y J. Smith to be a Tcp.mopsis, and being a 

 Bourbon species, is identical with my plant from Mozambique. 



5. V. Gardneriana, Fee; "fronds lanceolato-linear falcate 

 often curved attenuated at both extremities translucent espe- 

 cially the sterile ones plane at the margin, veins sculpturate 

 al>ove not extending to the margin, sori broad superficial 

 gibbose fusco-tabacine neither continued to the apex nor to 

 the base, caudex creeping/' Fee, Vittar. t. 3./. 1. — Metten. 

 in Fil. Wright, et Fendl. p. 197- 



Hab. " Organ Mountains, Brazil, Gardner, n. \47 (Herb, nostr.). Columbia, 

 Moritz, n. 1426." Venezuela, Fevdler, n. 260. Panama, Sutton Hayes. Ecua- 

 dor, Jameson, w. 749, Spruce, n. 4670 and 5710. Jamaica, M'Fadyen. — Rarely 

 exceeding a foot in length ; about \ <'f> i"ch in the broadest part. A species, if 

 it be such, apparently with no valid characters. 



6. V. Ruiziana, Fee; "fronds narrow-linear soft fascicu- 

 late plane opaque acute attenuated below into a flattened 

 stipes, costa evident at the base of the frond broad reddish 

 at length subevanescent, sori interrupted brown snuff-colour 

 when young concealed within the margins of the frond, the 

 sulcus superficial, fertile veins slender, caudex surculiform 

 clothed with cancellate lanceolate acute scales." Fee, Vittar. 

 p. 16. t. 3./. 3. 



Hab. "Peru, Ruiz." — "Fronds, including the stipes, 25 centim. long, by 2-3 

 millim. broad. This species is perfectly distinct. It has some affinity with F. 

 stipitata ; the microscopic details are the same. It is recognized especially by 

 the flattened stipes and by the superficial situation of the sori." 



7. V.fle.vuosa, Fee (not Wallich) ; "fronds linear flexuose, 

 margins revolute tapering into a striated flattish stipes, costa 

 subcristiform, sori near the margin broad brownish snuff-co- 

 lour, capsules globose, annulus broad 18-20-articulate, arti- 

 culations bread more remote, spores reniform thick smooth 

 depressed when dry, sporangiasters cyathiform and campani- 

 form sulphur-coloured dilated at the mouth, pedicels undu- 

 late branched, caudex creeping, the scales very narrow-Ian- 



