52. GYMNOGRAMME, §§§§ EUGYMNOGUAMME. 379 



16. G. pumila, Spreng ; rhizome filiform; /r. tufted, l*-2in. ]., palmately 

 forked at the apex, the ultimate lobes narrow and acute, the blade narrowed 

 below to an indistinct stem ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface dark-green 

 and glossy; rciHS flabellate ; sori linear, irregular. — Hk. Sj). 5. p. 12G. llecis- 

 topteris, J. Sm. 



H;ib. West Indies and Guatemala to the Amazon Valley. 



■X* Frond simply pinnate. Sp. 17-19. 



17. G. MucUeri, Ilk. ; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., wiry, densely clothed with small 

 linear ferruginous scales;//'. 4-0 in. 1., 1-]| in. br., simply pinnate; pinnce 

 sessile, alternate, roundish or oblong, sometimes J in. 1., \ in. br., entire or the 

 lower ones auricled ; texture thick, coriaceous ; rachis and under surface densely 

 matted with scales like those of the stem, upper surface pale-green, with scattered 

 scales ; veins flabellate ; sori linear. — Ilk. &'p. 5. p. 14.3. t. 2t)5. 



Il.ib. N. E. Australia ; and gathered lately in Queensland by Mr. Hill. 



18. G. vestita, Hk. ; st. tufted, 8-0 in. 1., wiry, more or less matted, the scales 

 at the base densely tufted, silky, bright-ferruginous ; /;•. 0-12 in. 1., 1-1| in. br., 

 simply pinnate ; jnnnce in distant pairs, oblong or cordate-ovate, entire, bluntish, 

 the lower ones distinctly stalked ; texture thick, but flaccid ; both sides and 

 rachis densely coated with fine velvety ferruginous hairs ; veins flabellate ; sori 

 forked.— i/X-. Sp. 5. p. 143. Ic t. 115. 



Hab. N. W. Himalayas (up to 8,000 ft.) and Pekin. — Veins sometimes anastomosing 

 towards the edge. 



19. G. rufa, Desv. ; st. tufted, 4-12 in. 1., firm, erect, chesnut-brown, clothed 

 with soft spreading hairs ; //•. 12-18 in. 1., 3-5 in. br., simply pinnate ; pinnce 

 distant, stalked, rounded or cordate at the base, 1-2^ in. 1., -^-1 in. br., acute or 

 bluntish, the edge entire ; texture herbaceous ; eastaneous rachis pilose, and both 

 sides slightly so ; veins close, forked, or the lower ones subpinnate, the narrow 

 sort running along all of them all over the surface. — Hk, Sp. b. p. 145. Neuro- 

 gramme. Link. 



Hab. West Indies and Panama southward to the Amazon Valley and Peru. 

 •■'■** Frond Mpvmatijid or bipinnate. Sp. 20-35. 



20. G. cordata, Schlecht ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., glossy, ebeneous, more or less 

 scaly ; fr. 3-0 in. 1., \\-2 in. br., ovate-lanceolate, bipinnatifid ; pi7mce^ oblong, 

 with a broad centre and suborbicular deeply-toothed lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 veins flabellate ; upper surface naked, lower densely coated with ovate acuminate 

 ferruginous scales ; sori linear, ultimately subconiluent. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 181. 



Hah. Cape Colony to Bourbon and Angola. — The less-divided forms resemble 

 Asplenium Ceterach in habit. 



21. G. Pozoi, Kunze ; st. tufted, slender, clothed with soft brownish spreading 

 hairs ; fr. 2-3 in. 1., 1 in. br., ovate-oblong, bipinnatifid ; pinnce oblong-deltoid, 

 unequal-sided, J-§ in. each way, with a few deep blunt lobes, and obliquely 

 truncate at the base on the lower side ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and both 

 sides clothed with long soft hairs like the stem ; veins flabellate ; sori linear. — 

 Hk. Ic. t. 985. Hemionitis, Lag. Grammitis hispanica, Cosson. — /3, G. rutcefolia, 

 Hk. & Gr. Ic. t. 90 ; fr. larger and stouter, some of the hairs glandular. — Ilk. 

 Sp. b.p. 137. — y» G. papaKcrifolia, Kze. ; pinnce cut down to the rachis into 

 roundish or spathulate lobes, with a space between them, the lowest sometimes 

 slightly toothed. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 138. 



Hab. or, Spain ; j3, Australia and New Zealand ; y, Chili. 



