GYMNOGRAMMR. 615 



4. Kiilin and Cfirruthers have lately again separated as a species tlie Aus- 

 tralian plant, which is N. Brow}ni, Dosv. It has Ioniser stipes and fewer pinnce 

 hail the European plant, the lowest little or scarcely reduced. 



4*. N. obclucta, Baker ; st. 1 in., brown, naked ; fr. lanceolate, bipinnate, 8-0 

 in. 1,, li-2 in. br. ; rachis densely tomentose ; 2^innce numerous, subsessile, ligu- 

 late, \ in. br., lower distant, gradually reduced ; innnl. oblong, obtuse, upper 

 adnate, lower sessile ; texture membranaceo-carnose ; upper surface dull-green, 

 glabrescent, lower densely paleaceous; S(3r2 punctiform, hidden in tomentuni. — 

 Cheilanthes, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 3G. jj. 83. 



Hab. Bolivia, D'Orhlgny, 386. 



11*. N. Newlerryi, Eaton; st. tufted, 3-5 in. I., nearly black, when young 

 Avhitish-tomentose, at length nearly smooth ; fr. as long as st., lanceolate-oblong, 

 3-4-pinnate ; ult. scgm. obovate, crowded, \-\ lin. br,, entire or subcrenate ; both 

 sides covered with a dense white tomentum of slender entangled hairs, more dense 

 below ; sori rather large, at last emevgent from the tomentum. 



Hab. California, Dr. Neioherry, Prof. Wood & Brewer, 



12*. N. paucijuga, Baker ; st. tufted, \-\ in., castaneous, filiform, naked like 

 rachis ; /r. lanceolate, f-1 in., simply -^innsXQ', pinnae 3-4-jugate, upper close, 

 oblong or lanceolate, entire, lowest deltoid, distant, sessile, slightly lobed, 2 hn. br. ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces green, glabrous ; veins distinct, fine, erecto-patent, 

 sori brown, marginal. 



Hab. Port Darwin, North AustraHa ; communicated by Sir R, Scliomburgk. 



13*. N. cinnamomea, Baker ; st. tufted, 1-5 in., castaneous, densely clothed at 

 first, like the rachis, with soft pale-brown hairs ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, 2-3- 

 pinnate, 3-4 in. 1., 1^-2 in. br. ; pinnce close, lanceolate, sessile, |-| in. br., loAvest 

 distant, not at all or little reduced ; />2?i«/. oblong, obtuse, most" simple adnate, 

 lowest sometimes free and pinnate ; texture not at all rigid ; under surface clothed 

 with lax pale-brown hairs ; sori brown, continuous. 



Hab. Guatemala, Salvin db Godman, 



LII.- GYMNOGRAMME. Page 376—890. 



3. Var, G. j^^'ocurrens, Fee ; veins more distinct and more raised than in the 

 tyi^e ; rachis and under surface less pilose. 



Hab. Mexico, Schmitz, 367 ; Bourgeau, 921, 1043. 



23*. G. Gardncri, Baker ; st. tufted, castaneous, \-l ft., pubescent ; basal 

 s'-alcs linear, pale-brown ; fr. deltoid, tripinnatiiid, 3-4 in. each way ; lower 

 ])inme mnch largest, long-stalked, unequal-deltoid, 2-2| in. br. ; lowest ^>2??h/. 

 short-stalked, deltoid, deeply pinnatifid, with short blunt lobes ; texture mem- 

 branous ; both surfaces green, pubescent ; sori as in tomentosa and rufa. 



Hab. Goyaz, Brazil, Qardntr, 4077. 



27*. G. Sclloiviana, Mett. ; st. 2-3 in., castaneous, densel}^ pubescent upwards 

 like rachis ; fr. lanceolate, bipinnate, 3-6 in. 1., ^-| in. br., narrowed from the 

 middle to both ends ; jnnnw numerous, close, lanceolate, ^ in. br., free at base, cut 

 down to rachis into few obovate-cuneate pin/tl. with reflexed margins ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; upper surface dull-green, thinly, lower densely, ])ilose on the 

 ribs ; sori brownish; veins subpinnate in the pinnules. — Kultn, Li?in. 36. f^. 69. 

 Cheilanthes, Presl. 



Hab. Central Brazil, Sellow, Warming. — Habit of Cht'doLUilies, section Physapteris. 



