13G 25. CHEILANTHES, §§ EUCHEILANTHES, 



Hab. Limestone rocks near Moulmein, Malayan Peninsula ; discovered by the Rev. 

 C. S. Parish. — A larger plant than C. mysin-ennis, but very doubtfully distinct. — From the 

 Ceylonese C. laxa, Moore, it differs mainly by its tomentose raehis. 



23. C. hirta, Swartz ; st. tufted, 2-4 in. 1., strong, erect, densely coated with 

 spreading bright reddish-brown woolly hairs ; fr. 4-12 in. L, 2-5 in. br., ovate- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatitid ; pinnce opposite, spreading from the main raehis at 

 right angles, lanceolate, 1-3 in. 1., cut down to the raehis into numerous oblong 

 pi?inl. which are scarcely more than ^ in. 1., and again inciso-pinnatifid ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; raehis and both surfaces more or less tomentose ; margin of the 

 segm. much incurved ; sori copious.— i/^t. Sp. 2. p. 92. t. 101. B. — /3, G. parviloha, 

 Swz. ; raehis and surfaces less tomentose ; pinnce shorter, with the segm. and apex 

 slightly divided and convolute. — Hk. Sp. I. c. 



Hab. Cape Colony northward on the east to Bourbon, on the west to Angola. — There 

 is a specimen from Java from Dr. Blunie in the Hookerian Herbarium, and Mr. Moore gives 

 it as Chinese. Our a varies much in size and hairiness, and includes three species of 

 F^e; viz., his Cheilanthes olivacea (a large form, with the margin of the segm. less incurved) 

 and his Myriopteris contracta and intermedia. It might as suitably be placed in Physa- 

 pteris as here. C. glandulosa, Pappe and Eawson, is a form. 



24. C. viscosa, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1., strong, erect, wiry, dark cliesnut- 

 brown, polished, pubescent ; fr. 4-6 in. each way, deltoid, tri- or quadripin- 

 natifid ; pinn(e in pairs, the lowest much the largest ; pinnl. of the lower side 

 larger than the others, sometimes I5-2 in. 1., lanceolate, with narrow linear- 

 oblong segm., which are again cut down to the raehis into small beaded ultimate 

 divisions ; texture herbaceous in the barren frond, subcoriaceous in the fertile one 

 when mature ; rachises pubescent, like the stipe, both surfaces pilose ; sori more 

 or less confluent.— ^/t. Sp. 2. p. 105. t. 93. B. 



Hab. New Mexico southward to Venezuela. — Easily distinguished froiif its allies by 

 the deltoid outline of the frond. O. leucopoda, Link, is an allied Mexican plant, said to 

 have a straw-coloured stipe and smaller fronds, and C. tenuis, Presl, another allied Mexican 

 plant which I have not seen. From Allosorus hirsutus, Presl, this differs by its hairy 

 stipes and raehis and Cheilanthoid involucre. 



** Stipe not hairy and slightly scaly only towards the base. Sp. 25-35. 



25. C. hispaniea, ]\Ietten. ; St. caespitose, wiry, naked, dark chesnut-brown, 

 polished, 2-3 in. 1., with a dense tuft of wiry linear-filiform dark chesnut-brown 

 scales at the base ; fr. 1-1|^ in. 1., | in. br., deltoid, hi- or tripinnatifid ; pinnw in 

 opposite pairs, the lowest tlie largest, oblong or again branched on the lower 

 side ; segm. roundish-oblrng, crenate ; texture coriaceous ; raehis polished, upper 

 surface green, naked, under brown, tomentose ; sori small, copious. — Metten. 

 Cheil. p. 30. 



Hab Rocks on the banks of the Mondego, near Coimbra, Portugal, Welwitsch ; Spain, 

 fide Mcilcniuxi. 



26. C. pulehella, Bory ; st. densely tufted, 3-9 in. 1., strong, erect, dark 

 chesnut-brown, polished, sligbtly fibrillose below ; fr. 3-12 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., 

 ovate-lanceolate or deltoid, tri])iiinate ; lower pinnce opposite, subdeltoid, 

 2-3 in. 1., 1-]^ in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the raehis into numerous 

 linear-oblong segm. ; texture subcoriaceous ; raehis and both surfaces naked ; 

 sori copious. — Ilk. Sp:'!. j). 101). t. 94. A. 



Hab. Madeira and the Canaries. — The Abyssinian plant placed here in " Species 

 Filicum" is C. coriacea. 



27. C. varians. Ilk. ; .?#. densely tufted, 2-6 in. 1,, chesnut-brown, polished 

 but rather slender and brittle, fibrillose below ; ^. 6-9 in. 1., 1^-2 in. br., Ian- 



