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frond only, the sterile one is that of Aspidium (Cyclodium) me- 

 niscioides, Ji'iUd.). Polybotrya serratifolia, Kl. Eat. in Fit. 

 Wright, et Fend/. — Var. salicifolium ; leaves narrow-lanceo- 

 late suljentire, veins nearly all free. 



Ilab. Mexico, Galeotti, in Herb. (Fee; not elsewhere recorded, that I know 

 of, as a native of that country). Venezuela, Funck, n. 186, Fendler, n. 261 (ac- 

 comj)anied by a sterile specimen with deeply pinnatifid pinn.'e ; below, the fronds 

 are almost bipinnate, passiTig, as it were, into a fertile frond), Moritz, n. 277 

 (" Pohjbot. Canopteris, Kze. ;" pinnae coarsely serrato-dentate, ultimate veiiilets 

 oftfMi connivent at their apices, so as to form an intraniarjjinal vein, as in Olfer- 

 s/a).— Var. /3. Serra de Araripe, Brazil, Gardner. — M. Fee has been singularly 

 unfortunate in the names he applied to this solitary species of his genus Soro- 

 manes, and in the fact, which he candidly acknowledges, of the sterile frond 

 (Acrost. t. 42) being taken from a specimen of quite another Fern, but having 

 similar venation. 



§ 9. Stenosemia. — Fronds triangular, dimorphous, ternate or ternato-pinnate. 

 Veins anastomosing so as to form large costal and eostular areoles without free 

 veinlets, the rest of the veins mostly free. The fertile fronds very much 

 contracted, 3-pinnate ; the segments linear. — Gen. Stenosemia, /. Sm. 



12.3. A. (Stenosemia) anritum, Sw. ; caudex short stout 

 woody erect at the summit paleaceous with dark-bro\vn ra- 

 ther rigid linear subulate scales which are continued some 

 way up the stipes, stipites tufted 5-12 inches long nearly 

 twice as long of the fertile frond; sterile fronds firm-nieui- 

 branaceous 9-12 inches long nearly as much wide deltoid 

 ternate often bulbiferous in the axils, terminal primary di- 

 visions broad-ovato-deltoid acuminate pinnatifid cuneate 

 at the base or the lower half pinnate with the pinnae pinna- 

 tifid, lowest or lateral primary divisions half-ovate long acu- 

 minate pinnatifid, lowest inferior segments much the longest 

 and lobato-pinnatifid, veins anastomosing into large costal 

 and eostular areoles, the rest mostly free; fertile fronds 

 of the same form (deltoid) very much contracted bi-tripin- 

 natifid, the segments all linear. — ^iv. Si/n. Fil. pp. 1.3 and 198. 

 JVilld. Sp. PL V. p. 112. IJook. Gard. Ferns, t. 81. Steno- 

 semia aurita, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 237. t. 10. /. 24 {not J. 

 Sni.,or only in part). Fee, Acrost. p. 82. Polybotrya, Bl. 

 Fit. Jav. p. 15. t. 1. Rumph. Aoiboyn. vi. p. 78. /. 35./. 1. 



Ilab. Java, Blume, Thos. Lohb, Zollinger, n. 427. Isle of Samar, Cuming, n. 

 341 (a more compound form), — Well figured by Blume and in Hook. Exol. 

 Ferns. 



124. A. (Stenosemia) cicutaria, Hook.; "fronds long sti- 

 pitate ternate fulvo-villous on the veins beneath, segments 

 linear acuminate entire, superior ones obtuse, lateral inferior 



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