480 PTERIS. 



rachis ; lower pinnce oblong'-lanceolate, 1-1| ft. 1. ; pinnl. distant, lanceolate, falcate, 

 nearly sessile, with a narrow wing down the rachis ; segm. lanceolate, oblique, 

 blunt, 1-2 lin. br., upper adnate, entire, lower free, bluntly lobed ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; surfaces naked, dull-green ; venules fine, distinct, forked or subpiu- 

 nate ; inv. double. — Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 59. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Lindiy, 353. 



43*. P. rugulosa, Lab. ; rhizome wide-creeping ; st. and rachiscs slender, gluti- 

 noso-pubescent, castaneous ; fr. ample, 4-pinnatifid, rhomboid ; pinnce close, lan- 

 ceolate, short-stiilked, erecto-patent, under 1 ft. 1. ; pinnl. lanceolate, close, patent, 

 nearly sessile, %-\ in. br. ; scgni. lanceolate, cuneate-truncate on lower side at 

 base, lower deeply pinnatihd, with oblique blunt lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 surfaces dull-green, glutinose and minutely furfuraceous, especially below ; edge 

 of fertile segm. revolute, the sorus reaching to the midrib.— ^Stv^. t. 8. non Baker. 

 Sj/n. Fil. edit. I. p. 16,3. 



Hab. New Caledonia ; rediscovered lately by M. Deplanclie. 



46'''. P. (Camp.) maxima. Baker ; rachises stramineous, glabrous ; fr. deltoid, 

 all except lowest pinnce simply pinnatifid, the lowest with a stalk 1 in. 1., and 

 1-2 pinnatifid pinnl. from lower side ; pinnce reach 1 ft. 1., 3 in. br. ; wing in 

 centre \\-2 lin. br. ; segm. not close, lanceolate, falcate, 3-4 lin.br. at base, barren 

 toothc»d ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; veins fine, 

 distinct, anastomosing in shallow costal arches. — Campteria maxima, Herb. 

 Bourbon, 



Hab. Isle of Mayotte ; sent by Lady Baikly. — Scarcely more than a variety of 

 hiuurita, 



G9*. P. (Lito.) Fraseri, Mett. ; 5^!. tufted, naked, stramineous, sometimes 4-5 

 ft. 1. ; fr. deltoid-tripartite, reaching 3 ft. each way ; divisions oblong-acumi- 

 nate, cut down to a narrow wing into lanceolate falcate acuminate lobes -^-l 

 in. br., the lowest of side division sometimes again pinnatifid on the lower side ; 

 texture firm, membranous ; areolce in many rows between the midrib and edge ; 

 both surfaces bright-green, glabrous ; fertile segm. much narrower ; sori reaching 

 their tips. — Kuhn, Linn. 18G8. p. 41. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador, Fraser, Spruce, 5319. 



78. Litobrochia iindulata, Moore, Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 348, is a var. from 

 Viti, like the type, but with blunter ultimate segments with an undulated edge; 

 P. microptcra, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 8G, p. 92, from Lord Howe's Island, conies 

 between the type and Endlicheriana ; L. areolata, Moore, Lowe New Ferns, 

 t. 57, seems to belong here. 



79. P. reticidata, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 30, p. 91 ; P. consangninea, Mett. 1. c. 

 p. 89 ; and P. transparens, Mett, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, vol. 2, p. 221, all Andine, 

 come under our aculeata. 



79*. P. siJeciosa, Mett. ; st. naked, castaneous, 1-8 ft. 1. ; fr. deltoid, bipin- 

 natifid, 2-3 ft. each way ; rachises glossy, naked, castaneous ; pinnae ligulate- 

 lanceolate, lower distinctly stalked, lowest not forked, 9-18 in. 1., 2-4 in. hr.,cut 

 down two-thirds of the way to the I'achis into close lanceolate falcate segments 

 \-\ in. br., barren denticulate; texture rigidly subcoriaceous; siirfaces ^&x\l- 

 green, naked ; areolce copious, hexagonal, distinct ; sori not reaching tips. — ■ 

 Kuhn, Linn. 8G. j3. 9]. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador and Peru, Lcclder, 232G ; Spruce, 4757, 4759. 



79*. P. obscura, Mett. ; fr. deltoid, 2-3-pinnatifid, \\ ft. 1. ; rachises reddish ; 

 pinnce lignlate-lanceolate, reaching 9 in. 1., subisessile, lowest forked, cut down 



