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29. G. Ottmiis, Klotzsch ; st. tufted, 4-G in. 1., glossy, wiry, ebeneous ; fr, 

 5-8 in. 1., 1 in. br., bipinnate ; pinnce distant, the lowest ^ in. 1., \ in. br. ; 

 •pinnl. suborbicular, entire or slightly cleft ; texture subcoriaceous ; raclds 

 ebeneous ; both sides naked ; veins ilabellate ; sori irregular, of few capsules. — ■ 

 Hk. Sp. 5. p. 128. 



Hab. Venezuela, Otto, 630. 



.30. G. Lindigii, Melt. ; st. 1-4 in. 1., castaneous, liisj)id, glossy ; fr. 4-9 in. 1., 

 |-li in. br., ilexuose, bipinnatifid or bipinnate ; pinnce ^-| in. 1., ovate-oblong or 

 subdeltoid, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis on each side into 3-8 ovate- 

 rhomboidal or roundish imbricated lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and 

 both sides hispid ; veins not reaching the edge. — Mett. Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 210. 



Hab. New Granada, Lindig. — This and the six preceding are closely allied. 



31. G. decipicns, Mett. ; st. subtufted, G-9 in. 1., wiry, dark chesnut-brown, 

 naked ; fr. (1-9 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., deltoid, bipinnatifid ; pinnce imbricated, 

 stalked, the lowest the largest, 1-1^ in. 1., \-^ in, br., lanceolate-deltoid, obliquely 

 truncate at the base below, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into cuneate 

 or oblong entire or toothed lobes ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and both sides 

 naked ; veins flabellate ; sori linear, conspicuous. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 132. t. 291. 



Hab. Aneiteum and New Caledonia. — Resembles Asplenium marinum in habit. 



32. G. ferruginea^ Kze. ; st. tufted, 6-12 in. 1., stout and densely clothed with 

 ferruginous woolly tomentum ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 3-4 in. br., ovate-lanceolate, 

 bipinnate ; pinnw 2-3 in. 1., ^-1 in. br., cut down to the rachis below into oblong 

 or linear-oblong entire or slightly toothed lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper 

 surface naked ; lower and rachis densely coated with tomentum ; veins flabellate ; 

 sori lax, simple or forked. — (i, G. lanata, Klotzsch ; less woolly beneath ; pinnl. 

 larger, and the lower ones bluntly lobed halfway down. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 130. 



Hab. Peru ; and gathered also by Seeman in Panama. 



33. G. Hauphtoni, Hk. MSS. ; st. densely tufted, 1-2 in. 1., black, glossy ; fr. 

 3-4 in. 1., 1-H in. br., ovate-lanceolate, bipinnate ; pinnce close, the central ones 

 lanceolate-deltoid, ciit down nearly or quite to the rachis below into suborbicular 

 irregularly crenated lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; veins flabellate ; colour dark- 

 green, only the lower surface slightly scaly ; son oblong, thick, at last often 

 filling up nearly the whole surface. — G. cordata, Hk. Sp. 5. /». 131. {in ^Mrt). 

 Ind Cent. t. 7. 



Hab. St. Helena. — Perhaps should be joined with G. cordata, from which it differs by 

 being more deeply cut and hardly at all scaly. 



34. G. Hookeri, J. Sm. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1,, firm, dark chesnut-brown, 

 glossy, clothed when young with ferruginous tomentum ; fr. 9-15 in. 1., 4-5 in. 

 br., oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate ; pinnce numerous, lanceolate, cut down to the 

 rachis into entire or slightly toothed linear-oblong pinnl., the longest j-f in. I., 

 with enrolled edges and about their own breadth between them ; texture coria- 

 ceous ; upper surface and castaneous rachis naked ; lower clothed with ferru- 

 ginous tomentum. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Purdie, Schlim 609, and Bolivia, Mandon 1547. — 

 Habit of G. ochracea, but the under surface and young stems coated with ferruginous 

 tomentum, and not powdery. 



35. G. javanica, Blume ; rhizome creeping; s^. naked, glossy, 1-4 ft. 1. ; //•. 

 1-4 ft. 1., varying from 1 to 2 pinnate; pi7ml. sessile or slightly stalked, 3-12 

 in.-l., |-3 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, the apex acuminate, the edge entire ox finely 

 toothed ; texture firm-herbaceous ; rachis stramineous, and both sides glossy, 



