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ceolate loncj acuminate serrated at the margin." Fee, Vittar. 

 p. IG.— " IVulL Cat. n. 144. V. flexuosa, IVaUr (hut n. 144 

 in Wall. Cat. in " V. elongata,^' not jlexaosa, ^ml Dr. Hooker 

 and Mr. J. Smitli have considered a large suite of the same 

 collected by Hooker fil.and Thomson to be the true eloiifjata, 

 Svv. ; but M. Fee maintains that the sori are " supracuticu- 

 laires," while they are " endophylles," sunk in the substance, 

 not necessarily in the very margin in V. elongata, and hence 

 EiwUtana. Whatever this Vittaria may be, it is not authen- 

 tically known to me.) 



8. \. stipitata, Kze. ; ''fronds broad-linear flexile rather 

 obtuse yellowish tapering below into a brown glossy fragile 

 long attenuated stipes, costa at the thickened base of the 

 frond (only) manifest evanescent above, sori extramarginal 

 the cleft 2-lipped (sporotheciis hiantibus), caudex thick (rhi- 

 zomate denso) clothed with lanceolate brown scales." Fee. — 

 Kze. Analect. Pteridoyr. p. 28. t. 18. /. 1 [exdudimj the ad- 

 jacent analysis). Fee, Vittar. t. 3./. 8 {analys'is only), 



Hal). Peru, Poepp'ui, in Herb, nostr. Tarapota, Spruce, n. 4773. Columbia, 

 Morif.:. n. 143, Purdie. Schlbn, n. G23 and 631, Fendler, n. 269 and 259 ;3, Ilol- 

 ion, n. 60. lirazil (Fee). Pitcaini's Island, Mathews, Caming, n. 1380. — Often 

 2 feet long, 3-4 lines wide, very fragile when dry. Kunze has represented the 

 venation as anastomosing with long narrow areoles, which is not the case in Poep- 

 pig's original specimens; but, in reality, his analysis placed by and for V. sUpi- 

 lata belongs to Kunze's V. costata of the same plate, which is Tcenilis aiujus- 

 tifolia. 



/3. Frond with the costa pinnate.* 9-12. 



9. V. tenera. Fee ; " fronds thin narrow linear flattish sul- 

 cate flexile acute young ones very obtuse, veins reticulated 

 slender translucent tapering below into the stipes, costa 

 slender, sori marginal, sulcus very narrow extending from 

 the base to the apex of the frond, fronds fasciculate, scales 

 large cancellate toothed at the margin, younger ones ol)tuse 

 pellucid, veins per conniventiam anastomosing." Fee, Vittar. 

 p. 17. t. 2./. I. 



Ilab. Natal, South Africa, Gueinzius. — Length 1 foot, width 1-1 J line, as re- 

 presented on the plate. Whatever this may be, and I have no means of know- 

 ing, it is doubtless included in the V. lineatain Pappe and Rawson's Syn. Fil. Cap. 

 p. 38, in Gueinzius's locality for that species. None of these exceed 5 inches in 

 length and 1 line in breadth. M. Fee, indeed, tells us that the V. tenera " n'cst 

 pas sans analogic avec le V. lineata, mais elle est plus etroite, plus flexible, plane 



* This character of M. Fee ("frondidus mesorienro dentatis ") is ])laced in oppo- 

 sition to that at a in our preceding page (" frondit/iis mesoneuro donalis"), but it 

 appears tome, from the figures given by the author (11. cc), that the costa or me- 

 soneure is alike pinnated in both. 



