NEPHRODIUM. 495 



l)ut thin ; surfaces glabrous except finely-downy costas ; veins 9-10-jugate, very 

 distinct, all fertile ; sori superficial, subnuirgiual ; itiv. minute, glabrous, 

 fugacious. 



Hab. Solomon Isles, Richards. 



31*. N. (Last.) costale. Baker ; 5^. t) in. 1. ; racMs thinly setulose ; fr. ovate- 

 lanceolate, bipinnatilid, 1-^ ft. 1. ; j>innce numerous, patent, sessile, ligulate-acu- 

 minate, lower 4 in. 1., 1 in. l)r., cut down to a narrow wing into blunt lobes, the 

 lowest scarcely reduced ; texture chartaceons ; s?^?/rtcf'.<; glabrous, dull-green ; veins 

 (dose, distinct ; sori dense costular ; inv. reddish, renifonn, persistent, bristly. 

 — Aspidium costale, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 3G.p. 111. 



Ilab. Venezuela, FendUr, 47G. 



32*. N. (Last.) eriocauloJi, Baker ; st. |-1 ft., densely clothed, as are the stra- 

 mineous rachiscs, with spreading linear-subulate ferruginous scales ^-^ in. 1. ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; 'pinnce sessile, ligulate, lower o-G in. 1., 

 |-lj in. br., cut down into a distinct wing into close blunt subentire lobes l|-2 

 lin. br., lowest scarcely reduced ; texture membranous ; surfaces bright-green, 

 slightly downy, the lower scaly on the ribs; mws 10-12-jugate ; swi middle- 

 sized, costular ; inv. minute, fugacious. — Aspidium, Fee, Fil. Bras. t. '^^.fig. 1. 

 N. ramentaceum. Baker, Fl. Bras.fasc. 49./*. 473. 



Hab. Eio Janeiro, Qlaziou, 2369. — May perbaps prove a variety oivestitum. 



36*. N. (Last.) prcetervisiim, Baker ; st. 1 ft., naked, grey-stramineous ; fr. 

 lanceolate, \\-2 ft. 1., narrowed gradually to an acuminate point, bipinnatifid ; 

 rachis finely downy ; lower ^who; sessile, rather deflexed, ligulate-acuminate, 3-4 

 in. 1., I in. br., cut down to a broad wing into close blunt entire lobes 2 lin. br., 

 of which the lowest are reduced ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces dull- 

 green, naked, glossy; veins 9-10-jugate, erecto-patent, very distinct ; 50« minute, 

 supra-medial ; inv. persistent, slightly setose. — Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn. 3G. jtp. 411. 



Hab. Venezuela, Fendler, 371. 



38*. N. (Last.) i^rasm, Baker ; rachis dark-reddish ; fr. 3 ft. or more 1., above 

 1 ft. br., oblong-acuminate, bipinnatifid ; 2^innce subdistant, subsessile, ligulate- 

 lanceolate, with a gland at the base, lower G-7 in. 1,, 2 in. br. ; lobes equalling 

 tlie wing, close, obtuse or subacute, lowest reduced ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces 

 glabrous ; veins 12-18-jugate ; sori subcostular ; inv. minute, glabrous. — Aspi- 

 dium, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 3G. ^^. 109. 



Hab. Ecuador, Fraser. 



39*. N. (Last.) 2^uberuh(m, Baker ; st. 1-1| ft., naked, stramineous ; fr. oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1^-2 ft. 1., bipinnatifid ; rachis stramineous, slightly downy; pinnai 

 sessile, lower 4-5 in. 1., ^-| in. br., acuminate, cut down to a narrow wing into 

 very close subacute entire lobes g in. br., the lowest rather dilated in the upper 

 pinnee, reduced in the lowest ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces dull-green, finely 

 pubescent, especially below ; veins close, 8-10-jugate, very distinct ; sori minute, 

 supra-medial ; inv. small, subpersistent, densely bristly. — Aspidium, Fee. 



Hab. Mexico, Bourgeau, 1318. — Between ^'wicjis and ictragonum. 



39*. N. (Last.) alsojihilaceim. Baker ; st. \ ft., grey, glabrous ; //•. oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1-1| ft. 1., bipinnatifid ; rachis with a few spreading linear scales ; 

 pinnce ligulate-lanceolate, all except uppermost distinctly stalked, lower 5-G in. 1., 

 10-13 lin. br,, many reduced at base, cut down to a broad wing into close entire 



