FERNS COLLECTED IN MADAGASCAR BY M. HUMBLOT. 141 ~ 
. Seenine, with only a few minute ferruginous hair-like pales. Stipe 
eaching 1 in. 2 Ena; castaneous, quite naked. Lamina San 
isi, 14-8 in. long, 4-4 in. broad, green, glabrous, almost 
branous in ag pinata thr oughout, narrowed gra a ed 
the stipe or cut down a filiform midrib in the lower half. 
primary segments very short, HaRees erecto-patent, 1-veined ; 
lower deltoid, $-+ in. broad at the tip, with 2-4 dichotomous veins. 
quadrate valves. A very distinct species, most resembling in habit 
the American i ap inemes aspleniotdes. 
259 (71*). D. (Opoxronoma) decomposita, n. sp. — Stipes 
tufted, naked, fragile, castaneous, 3-4 in. long. Lamina deltoid, 
decompound, 4—6 in. Pie By dark green, ange paagresige firm 
3-3 lin. broad, lax, erecto-patent, narrowed gra adually from the tip 
to the base. Indusium terminal, of two short membranous et 
ee green valves. A near ally of the Brasilian D. bifida 
f 
495 (18*) spree lentophyila, n. Sp. yee slender, 
Wide-creeping, epigeous, castaneous, with only a few small linear 
brown pales. Stipes distant. rigid, fragile, aeons. naked, nearly 
black, 6-8 in. long. Lamina lanceolate, 1 ft. lo ong, 2-8 in. broad, 
bright green, membranous, glabrous, similar in fexiure and veining 
to the ean fronded Adianta, as A. trapeziforme A. macro- 
phyllum. Pinnze subquadrate, laxly disposed, ahorily petioled, 
dimidiate and entire on the posterior and inner margins, deeply 
irregularly Tohed on the ‘ons others, the ane truncate or lengthened 
out, the final lobes rounded, 1-12th to 1-8th in. broad. Veining 
distinct, flabellate, free. Indusium of eis equal narrow mem- 
ranous spreading glabrous valves. A most distinct and handsome 
hovelty, in habit most recalling Adiantum caudatum, but the pinne 
most like the final segments of A. trapeziforme in shape and size. 
812. Pellea hastata Link. 
263. Lonchitis madagascariensis Hook. 
occidentalis Baker. — An interesting addition to the 
Madagascar flora, as before it was known gs on the west side of 
e African continent, in Angola and Guine 
- Pteris phanerophlebia ‘Baker. —This, aick was first gathered 
ahs long ago by Curtis, has now been found both by Humblot and 
266, P. quadriaurita Retz. 
274, Ceratopteris thalictroides bins 
529. Lomaria attenuata Wi ar. gigant 
807 (8*). L. simillima, n p—Rootatook ‘thick, woody, wide- 
Scandent. Stipes of both Wade 8 1008 wit th 1 a few a 
f Car palee. Barren 
oot long, 5-6 in. broad, moderately firm i , green 
glabrous on both surfaces. Pinne iad tage Tupoilae entire, 
