roLvroDiu.M. 505 



]0. P. (Phc2:.) kev/'r/atnmy Baker; st. and racliis purplish, naked, shining; 

 fr. lanceolate, bipinnalifid, \\ ft. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; jiinnm numerous, lax, opposite, 

 patent, 1^-2 in. 1., 6-8 lin. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close blunt 

 lobes, lower pinnaj much reduced, distant ; basal lohes scarcely reduced ; texture 

 chartaceous ; surfaces glabrous, light-green ; veins 5-6-jugate ; sori suboblong. — 

 Phegopteris, Mctt. Kuhn, Linn. oQ.p. 112. 



Hab. Peru, Leclder, 2628. 



So'-. P. (JMieg.) hirsutum, Sw. ; st. tufted, 3-4 in., clothed like rachis with 

 dense spreading linear-subulate scales ; //•. G-9 in. 1., oblong-lanceolate, tripin- 

 natifid ; pinnce subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 15-20-jugate, ^-f in. br., lowest not 

 reduced ; pinnl. close, lanceolate, sessile, inciso-pinnatifid with blunt lobes ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces, especially the lower, with fibriliose scales ; veins 

 simple or forked in the tertiary lobes; sori medial. — Baker, Fil. Lras. p. .503. 

 t. Gi.fc,. 1. 



Hab. Miuas Geraes, Brazil. 



oG-*. P. (Pheg.) tarapotoise. Baker; st.l ft. or more, stout, brown, clothed 

 with large brown lanceolate scales, with a sudden grey edge ; fr. 2-2\ ft. 1., 

 1 ft. br., oblong-deltoid, tripinnatifid ; p)inn(e lanceolate, lowest largest, short- 

 stalked, 1^ in. br., cut down to rachis into adnate lanceolate entire or crenate 

 bluntish jnnnl. 3-4 lin. br. ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces dark-green, 

 rather pilose on ribs ; veiiis pinnate in lower tertiary segments ; sori mostly 

 1-serial, midway between midrib and edge of pinnules. 



Hab. Ancles of East Peru, Spruce, 4056. 



50'*. P. (Pheg.) /)«/cacc«;», Powell ; St. 1-3 ft., grey, clothed like rachis with 

 small adpressed linear scales, those near the base large, more spreading ; 

 //•. deltoid, l|-2 ft. each way, 4-pinnatifid ; lower pin7ice much largest, deltoid, 

 long-stalked, unequal-sided, central lanceolate, with close lanceolate sessile or 

 short-stalked pinnl. 1-1^ in. br., cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final 

 lobes lanceolate, ascending, bluntish, 1-H lin. br. ; texture moderately firm ; 

 surfaces green, glabrous, the ribs below slightly scaly ; veins pinnate in final 

 lobes ; sori copious, medial. 



Hab. Samoa, Ecv. T. Powell, 161. — Resembling Nephrodium amptlum in general habit. 



56*. P. (Cyrt.) hiforme. Baker ; st. Ij ft., stramineous, sparsely scaly like 

 rachis ; basal scales | in. 1., lanceolate, ferruginous ; fr. 2 ft. 1., oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, simply pinnate ; pinnas many, spreading, ligulate-acuminate, bluntly 

 lobed, sterile 6-7 in. 1., 1 in. br., fertile smaller, ^-f in. br., lowest stalked, 

 base on upper side truncate, on lower subcordate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 light-green, glabrous except ribs above ; veins in pinnated groups with 4-6-] u gate 

 veinlets, lower not reaching edge, free or joining as in Goniopteris ; sori near 

 main veins. — Phegopteris biformis, 3Iett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr.p. 121. 



Hab. Madagascar, Bourbon, and Mayotte. 



68*. P. (Goniop.) HiUii, Baker ; st. 6-9 in., grej', densely pilose like rachis ; 

 fr. subdeltoid, 1 ft. each way, simply pinnate ; pinnce 4-jugate, opposite, sessile, 

 ligulate-oblong, 5-6 in. 1., 2 in. br., deeply crenate, cuneately narrowed on both 

 sides at the base ; texture thick, not at all rigid ; surfaces dull-green, densely 

 softly grey- pubescent ; main veins erecto-patent, 2 lines apart ; veinlets 10-12- 

 jugate ; sori close to main veins. 



Hab. Queensland, Hill. 



75*. P. (Goniop.) excelswn, Baker ; arborescent, the trunk sometimes 30 feet 



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