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PLEOPELTIS aneusta. 
Narrow-leaved scaly-Fern. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES.—Naz. Onn. FILICES, Div. Gynata, Br. 
Gen. Cuar.—Sori subrotundi, dorsales. Involucra plura in quolibet soro, 
orbicularia, peltata—Kunth, in Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. Gen. 
Pleopeltis angusta; frondibus longe stipitatis squamulosis profunde pin- 
natifidis, segmentis paucis lineari-lanceolatis nunc dichotomis, margi- 
nibus subrepandis. 
Pleopeltis angusta, Humb. et Kunth, in Nov. Gen. p. 9. tab. 1.—Winp. Sp. 
Pl. v. 5. p. 211. 
Polypodium pleopeltifolium, Rapp1, Syn. Filic. Brazil. P. 8. 
Roots numerous, brown, thrown out from a creeping, cylindrical, scaly caudex. 
Stipes from 2 to 5 inches ig length; glabrous. Fronds 3 or 4 inches high, 
deeply cut into about 5 long, narrow, linear-lanceolate, at the margins 
somewhat repand, rather obtuse, segments, the upper segment gene- 
rally dichotomous. These have, both on their upper and under sides, 
numerous small, scattered, ovate, orbicular, peltate scales, dark in the 
centre, pale at the margins, and rather deeply cut, reticulated, membra- 
paseee The rachis or midrib is zig-zag, prominent, especially be- 
The undersides of the Segments fom the Seca bor x gaues 
sia plura in quolibet soro, peltata, margine fimbriata, fusca.” —Hv: 
Capsules very numerous, brown, as well as the seeds. 
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If this be not a Pleopeltis, then is the genus not founded | 
on Nature, for between the plant here figured, and ee. 
presented under the same name (P. angusta), in HuMBoLpT’s 
gtand work, there is no difference whatever, except in the ab- 
Sence of the involucres,—a circumstance which, I think, may . 
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