32 6. ALSOPiiirjA. 



1. A. blechnoides, Ilk. ; fr. pinnate ; pinnce coriaceo-membranaceous, glossy, 

 6-12 in. 1., lanceolate, suddenly acuminate and serrate at the apex ; sori (mixed 

 with copious long hairs) scattered in very irregular lines near the costa, sometimes 

 extending towards the margin. — Hk.Sp. \. p. 35. Metaxya, Pr. Polypod. Sw. 

 P. Parkeri, Hk. & Gr. Ic. F. t. 232. A rostrata, Mart. 



Hab, W. Iiid. and Trop. America. — Eemarkable for the large nearly entire pinnae. 



2. K. phegopteroides, Hk. ; caud. 3 ft. 1. ; st. unarmed, short, 3-4 in. 1., clothed 

 with large lanceolate, glossy, black scales having a pale margin ; fr. \\-2, ft. 1., 

 subcoriaceous, black -green above, paler beneath, villous on both sides, especially 

 beneath, with long spreading hairs, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid at 

 the apex, lowest ones reflexed ; pinnce sessile, 3-4 in. 1., 8-9 lines w., oblong, 

 shortly and bluntly acuminated, deeply nearly to the costa pinnatifid ; lobes 

 oblong, very obtuse, entire, thj margin a little recurved ; veins forked ; sori at 

 the fork, in a line between ihe costule and the margin ; rachis and costce beneath 

 shaggy with whitish hairs, mixed with brownish, narrow scales. 



Hab. Tarapota, E. Peru, Spruce, n. 4020. — A very peculiar species from the shortness 

 of the stipes, the simply pinnato-pinnatifid frond (resembling some Lastrea or Phegopteris), 

 and the hairy clothing, brown and shaggy beneath. 



3. A. pubescens, Baker ; si. |-1 ft., brown-stramineous, not muricated ; rachis 

 with iine spreading grey hairs below, not scaly ; fr. oblong, bipinnatifid, 3-4 ft. I.; 

 pinnce ligulate, central 5-6 in. 1., |-1^ in. br., shortly stalked, the lower reduced, 

 cut down to a narrow wing into close entire blunt lobes 2-3 lin. br. ; texture 

 moderately firm ; both sides finely downy all over, not at all scaly ; veins 

 10-12-jugate, indistinct, deeply forked ; sori near the midrib at the fork. — A 

 paleolata, Si/n. Fil. edit. \. p. 32. ex parte, non Mart, 



Hab. Peru, Lechler, 2190; Spruce, 4912; New Granada, Pwdtc.—" Caudex 6-10 ft. 

 high, slender, flexuose, marked with oval scars." — Spruce. 



4. A. Tcenitis, Hk. ; fr. ample, coriaceo-membranaceous, bipinnate ; pinnl. 

 distant, 8-5 in. 1., lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, subentire, petioled ; petiole 

 articulated on the rachis ; sori in a single series, equidistant between the costa 

 and the margin, mixed with long, copious hairs. — liL Sp. 1. p. 85. A. excelsa, 

 Mart. Or. Bras. t. 27 and 87. Trichopteris, Pr, 



Hab. Brazil. 



5. A. elegans. Mart.; «#. aculeated ; fr. bipinnate, carnoso-coriaceous ; pinnl. 

 distant, 2-2^ in. 1., linear lanceolate, suddenly acute, obtuse at the base, petioled, 

 slightly ferruginously woolly and subpaleaceous beneath ; sori in 2 or 3 series, 

 forming an unequal', broad, and more or less interrupted series nearer the costa 

 than the margin.— Jfarif. PI. Or. Bras. p. 03 and 38. Hk. S. l.p. 36. 



Hab. Brazil ; apparently rare. A. crenata, Kunze, is a form with pinnules distinctly 

 inciso-crenate. 



0. A. marffinalis, Kl. ; fr. ample, subcoriaceous, glabrous, bipinnate; prim, 

 pinnce 12-14 in. 1., 4^ in. w., pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, oblong, acuminate ; 

 pinnl. approximate, truncated at the base, quite sessile, oblong, subfalcato-obtuse, 

 entire, subsinuate at the margin ; sori in a single line, forming a flexuose conti- 

 nuous scries a little within the margin ; prim, rachis very paleaceous. — Kl. in 

 Linn. 18, p. 542. 



Hab. Brit. Guiana, R. Schomlwrgk, n. 1129. — A well-marked and very distinct speciea. 



** Bi-tripinnate or decompound. Sp. 6-63. 



7. A. Miersii, Ilk. ; rachis aculeate ; //•. firm-membranaceous, bipinnate, 

 glabrous ; prim, pinnce 2 ft. or more 1., pinnated to the very apex ; 



