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castancous ; racMs flexuose ; fr. 15 in. 1., 2-3^- in. In-., lanceolate, 3-4-pianatifi(l ; 

 2nnnce distant, stalked, 3-4 in. 1., lanceolate-deltoi<l, reflexed, falcate, obtuse ; 

 jnmil, stalked, spreading or reflexed, obtuse, oblique-ovate ; serpn. few, obovate 

 or oblong, lowest nearly free, pinnatifid ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surj'aces 

 both pilose ; sori falling short of the edge. — ICn/in, Linn. 8G,^^. 70. 



Hab. Central Er.-xzil, St. Jlilaire. 



49*. G. dccomposita, Baker; st. 1 ft., naked, castaneous, with deciduous yellow 

 meal, like sligliti3^-flexuose rachis ; /)•. lanceolate-deltoid, 1^ ft. 1., 1 ft. br., 4-5- 

 pinnatifid ; jnnncc close, lanceolate, stalked, lowest largest ; pinnl. close, stalked, 

 patent, deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; linal lobes I'meav, 1-nerved, 

 acute, upper simple, lower 3-4-nate flaljellate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 bright-green, glabrous, lower scattered over with j-ellow meal ; sori slender, con- 

 fluent where the lobes join, running up into them. 



Hab. Ilort. Kew, probably Andino. 



49'^'. G. Orh'ignyana, Mett. ; fr. ample, subscandent, 4-pinnatifid ; racliis flex- 

 uose, castaneous ; pinme patent, ovate-oblong, above 1 ft. 1. ; innnl. stalked, ovate- 

 oblong, lower reflexed ; lower segm. reflexed, stalked, ovate-oblong, obtuse ; final 

 lohes obovate, blunt ; texture membranous, flaccid ; both surfaces setulose ; veins 

 flabellate, several times dichotomous ; sori medial. — KuJin, Linn. 86. ^j. 70. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia, D'Orhigny, 174, 299. 



49"'. G. prehcnsiJnlis, Baker ; fr. ample, scandont, 4-5-pinnatifid ; rachis cas- 

 taneous, naked, those of the pinnte remarkably zigzag ; lowev pinnce long-stalked, 

 oblong-lanceolate, |-1 ft. 1. ; lower pinnl. much reflexed, distinctly-stalked, lan- 

 ceolate-deltoid, 4-5 in. 1., upper patent ; final lobes close, 3-4 lin. br., patent, 

 cuneate-flabellate, ^--f in. br., shallovvly incised ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces 

 green, under with a few scattered bristles ; vei^is flabellate, distinctly raised, 



Hab. Andes of Sandillano, S-9000 ft., Pcarce. 



GG*. G. (Sell.) ahj/ssi7iica, B iker ; rhizome wide-creeping ; scales groj', membranous, 

 lanceolate, clathrate ; fr. simple, lanceolate, 1 ft. 1., ^-^ in. br., narrowed to point 

 and gradually to a short compressed stipe ; texture subcoriaceous, not at all rigid ; 

 surfaces green, naked ; areolce long and narrow, 3-4-serial between midrib and 

 edge exappendiculate ; sori linear-oblong, 3-4 lin, 1., near the midrib distant from 

 one another, slightly oblique. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Scliimptr, No. It Jo of collection of 1S53-8. 



CO. G. (Sell.) Maingayi, Baker; st. \\ ft., dull-brown, naked; fr. deltoid, 

 under 1 ft. 1., with 5 oblong-lanceolate pinnw, the end one largest, S-G in. 1., lo-21 

 lin. br., slightly rcpand, narrowed gradually at base, the lowest pair distant ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; main veins distinct to edge, \ in. apart ; 

 areolce copious, minute, with free included veins ; sori very copious, minute, irre- 

 gular, punctiform or confluent in lines or curves. 



Hab. Malacca, Mainrjay, 1809. 



LVI.— VITTARIA. Page 395— G. 



3*. V. pumila, ]\Iett. ; rlii-ome short ; scales under ^ in., lanceolate-subulate, 

 toothed at base ; fr. linear, 1^-2 in. 1., ^ in. br., obtuse, narrowed at base, with 

 edge much reflexed ; texture coriaceous ; veins entirely immersed, distant, oblique, 

 the midrib very ])rominent, truncate, not dilated at the base ; sori hidden b^^ 

 revolute edge, medial between midrib and margin. — Kuhn, Linn. oG.p. 67. 



Hab. Eorneo, WaUace. 



