382 52. GYMNOGRAMME, §§§§ EUGYMXOGRAMME. 



sometimes slightly pubescent; veins close, simple, or once forked, the son 

 running along all of them, but stopping a space short of the ed<^e.—Hk. bp. 5. 

 p. 145. Coniogramme, Fee. 



Hab. N. India (up to 8,000 ft.) and Japan to the Sandwich Isles, Fiji, Malayan Islands, 

 and Ceylon, Fernando Po, Cameroon Mountains, and St. Thomas, West Tropical Africa. 



We include here three species of F^e, C. aerrulata, javanica, and serra, and G. pilosa, 



Brack., as a hairy form. Diplazium fraxineum and falcatum, D, Don, are the oldest 

 names. 



«*-x-x- j^rond tripiimatifid. Sp. 36-45. 



36. G. Schomhiirgkiana, Kze. ; st. tufted, 6-9 in. 1., naked, glossj'-, dark 

 chesnut-brown, flexuose ; fr, 2-5 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., ovate-lanceolate, tripin- 

 natifid ; lower pin7ice deltoid, cut down to the rachis into spathulate cleft or 

 pinnatitid pinnl.; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis wiry like the stem ; veins 

 ilabellate ; upper surface with a few firm hairs on the veins ; sori irregular. — 

 ML Sp. 5. p. 127. 27id Cent. t. 92. 



Hab. British Guiana, Riclid. Scliomhurfjh 1196, Apimn 1091. 



87. G. aureo- nitcns, Hk. ; st. stout, densely clothed with deciduous dark- 

 ferruginous tomentum ; the rachis very flexuose and zigzag ; pinncB on stalks 

 ^-1 in. 1., lanceolate-deltoid, the largest 4-6 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., cut down to the 

 rachis below into blunt irregular subdeltoid pinnl. with broad blunt lobes ; 

 texture thick ; under surface and rachis densely matted with bright ferruginous 

 tomentum ; sori hidden, elongated, simple or forked. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 180. Ic. t. 

 820. Eriosorus, Fee. 



Hab. Peru. — A fragment from Ecuador resembles this in cutting and habit^ but is much 

 less woolly, with naked ebeneous rachises. 



38. G. Matthewsii, Hk. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1., giossy, dark chesnut-brown, 

 clothed with deciduous dense brown hairs ; fr. 12-15 in. 1., 4-5 in. br., oblong- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce distant, lanceolate-deltoid, 2 in. 1., 1 in. 

 br., cut down to the rachis below into oblong-deltoid blunt pinnl. with broad 

 rounded lobes, lowest pinnse distant and reduced ; texture coriaceous ; rachis 

 densely matted with brown hairs, and both sides pilose ; veins conspicuous, 

 flabellate ; sori brown. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 128. t. 290. 



Hab. Peru, Matthews, 1814. 



39. G. Warcewiczii, Mett. ; st. 6-8 in. 1., reddish, slightly hairy, at last naked ; 

 fr. 6-15 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; pinnce 2\ in. 1., lax, 

 sessile or stalked, ovate -rhomboidal or ovate-oblong obtuse, cut dovvn nealrly or 

 below quite to the rachis into ovate-rhomboidal obtuse pinnatifidjowm^., lower 

 pinnee distant, reduced ; texture coriaceous, rigid ; upper surface naked, the 

 lower and reddish flexuose rachis slightly hairy ; veins flabellate. — Mett. Fil. 

 Nov. Gran. p. 211. 



Hab. New Granada. 



40. G. cheilanthoides, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, 3-6 in. 1., wiry, slender, glossy, dark 

 chesnut-brown ; fr. 6-10 in. 1., 1 in. br., ligulate, tripinnatifid ; pintice close, 

 deltoid, \ in. 1., nearly as broad, the upper lobes simple, linear-oblong, the lower 

 ones forked or trifid, the largest ult. divisions 1 lin. 1,, J lin. br. ; texture 

 herbaceous, the glossy castaneous rachis and both sides slightly pilose ; veins 

 1 to each ult. division ; sori oblong. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 135. Hk. & Gr. Ic. t. 24. 



Hab. Mauritius and Tristan d'Acunha. 



41. G. flahellata. Ilk.; st. 3-4 in. 1., wiry, glossy, dark chesnut-brown; fr. 



