NEW FERNS FROM THE ANDES OF QUITO. 165 
lax deltoid arches. Sori placed at the tip of the veinlets, often 
those of contiguous groups coalescing. Near P. urophyllum of Tro- 
pical Asia , but veining very different. 
YPODIUM (Dietyopteris) NICcoTIANZFoLIUM, Baker, 
Rhizome ote -creeping. Stipes 1-14 foot long, dull brown, with a 
few nant linear brown scales near the base. Frond oblong-deltoid, 
13-2 feet Jong, with a large oblong acute terminal pinna 3-5 inches 
broad, and 3-5 pairs of narrower more lanceolate side ones, of which 
only the lowest pair is not connected with the rest by a wing to the 
mis side pinne a ie reaching a length of 6- 8 and a breadth 
ture membrano bot. th surfaces Breen, glabrous. Main veins 
arcuate-scending ‘distinct to the edge, 4-3 inch apart; distinct cross- 
bars 6-10 between the midrib and Bice ; areole very small and 
copious, ph abundant free included veinlets. Sori minute, scattered, 
about half-a-dozen in an irregular row between each main vein. s 
foot of Mount Chimborazo, (Pee ve 23, and Chontales, Seemann, 
230. Allied to P. draconopterum, 
136*. Potyroprum (Eupo rpadiun) SUBSCABRUM, Klotzsch.—Caudex 
erect. Stipes tufted, filiform, fi inches long, densely clothed with 
fine spreading brown hairs. ond lanceolate, 4-6 inches long, } inch 
b 
brown hairs like those of the stipe. eins simple, erecto- spanks 
3-4-jugate in the central pinne. Sori round, superficial, terminal o 
the veins, 6-8 to the central pinne. Hook Sp. Fil. iv., 183, t. 2744. 
Also gathered by Moritz, Jameson , Spruce, ae Steere. Mentioned 
by name only in ‘‘ Synopsis s Filicum, > under P. subtele, at page 326, 
7*, Potyropium (Eupolypodium) Mayasyanum, Baker, n.sp.— 
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our specimens above a foot long), naked. Stipes distant, naked, 
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moderately firm ; both surfaces green and glabrous, and veins distinct, 
simple, erecto-patent, 8-10-jugate in the largest pinne, it reaching 
tothe edge. Sori small, round, supe placed 
nearer the midrib than the margin of the pinne. Near P. nhiieg 
Linn. 
. DEPENDENS, Baker, one of Spruce’s discoveries, and also its 
allies, P. alternifolium, Hook., and P. sericeo-lanatum, Hook., are 
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. Po n. 
Rhizome stout, creeping ; basal scales not seen. Stipes bright brown, 
erect, finely pilose, 4-6 inches long. Frond oblong-lanceolate, simply 
pinnate, a foot long, 3-4 inches broad ; rachis brown, densely pilose. 
ceolate, acute, broadly adnate at the base, entire, the largest 
about 2 inches long, half an inch broad, the lowest pair or two pairs 
