162 NEW FERNS FROM THE ANDES OF QUITO. 
different in texture, colour of the rachis, costular sori, and more 
more long, 4-5 inches broad, the lowest pair reflexed and dwarfed. 
Pinnules lanceolate, broadly adnate at the base, 2-23 inches long, 3-3 
inch broad, acute, entire or cut into short broad obtuse lobes. 
Texture moderately firm; both surfaces bright green, glabrous, except 
on the midrib beneath. Veins pinnate in the tertiary segments, with 
fine distinct arenate-ascending veinlets. Sori 
A wing into 
oblong obtuse pinnules } inch broad, adnate by their whole breadth to 
the rachis «nd inciso-crenate at the ti 
vee j . Involucre glabrous, n 
broad, not distinctly 2-lipped, the outer half rolled over the sorus, the 
inner half hidden. beneath it. This and the last two dj i 
cutting, but are in all other 
are wide-scandent, 
Hypolepis. 
PELL#a INTRAMARGINALIS, J. Smith_—Known before in Mexico and 
Guatemala. 
her points very near to one another. They 
growing on trees, and connect Dennstedtia with 
Baker.—Known already only in Peru. 3 
Frasent, Metten.—Gathered previously by Fraser and 
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