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matted like the stem with shining brown pellucid hairs. 
ceptacles 4-8 in a cluster, the cells of their walls regularly 
he 
exagon 
b. Warm arm temperate eee of the northern hemisphere of 
the Old World, extending from the South of France to North 
China and the Plains of India. 
cropunctata A. Br. in Kuhn Fil. Afric. 201. — Habit © 
3. 8. nz 
entirely of S. natans. Fronds aiken, shortly petioled, §-} in 
long, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, with 15-20 pairs of : 
row of spaced-out blackish dots, without distinct bristly points, — 
he 
the under surface thinly coated with adpressed brown hairs. Fruit 
nown. 
Hab. Niger Country, gathered by Vogel and Barter. Old 
Calabar, Mann! 
. Hildebrandatii, n. sp.—Fronds horizontal, sessile, oblong, 
ej in. long, 4-4 in. broad, obtuse, or obscurely emarginate, 
cordate at the ‘base, flat, distinctly keeled, green and rough with 
minute concolorous stiff hairs all over the Bo hel surface, brown 
with matted fibres beneath. Fruit unknow 
Ha North Mpdapiaons; Hildebrandt 8416! 
5. §. moutas Mett. in Kuhn Fil. Afric aes .—Fronds horizontal, 
oblong, shortly petioled, 8-9 lines long, about 4 in. broad, truncate 
at the base, very obtuse at the apex, sublobed, densely clothed with 
short hairs, sparingly with a few longer ones beneath, the close 
veins anastomosing in several rows of areole between the midri 
and edge. Fruit un é 
rs. 
6. ata Desy. in Ann. Linn. Soc. Par. vi. 177. — Fronds 
rm disposed, thin, spreading, flat, shortly Seti ovate-oblong, 
bout 3 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, slightly cordate at the base, deeply 
saat at the apex, clothed with dense short grey pubescence 
all over the ge surface, thinly matted with brownish tomentum 
beneath; veins very numerous, fine, immersed, erecto-patent- 
Conceptacles not seen 
Hab. Eastern Madagascar, Baron 1569! Humblot 350! 
S. Rad p.— Habit of 8. ms Fronds horizontal, 
distinctly petioled, and oblong, Af in. long, § in. broad, distinctly 
cordate at the base, with close veins on each side of the 
midrib, the whole upper surface rough with contiguous  bristle- 
tipped papillw, the lower side only clothed with a few minute fine 
adpressed hair: 
s. Fruit unknown 
Piab. British Guiana, Park art Jenman 1114! Para, Spruce 
508! Rio Janeiro, Radi! Burchell 1580! Glaziou 2443! Midway a 
riculata 
—— natans and au 
n. 7. — Habit of S. natans. Fronds orbicular, | 
- 
wit sessile, } in. diam., rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 
with about 10 erecto- -patent yeinlets on each side of the midrib, 
each beset with 5-6 tufts of minute bristles, the under surface 
rownish, and matted with shining pellucid hairs. Fruit unknow2 
b. Santa err gee Routh raters 6 Dr. es Muller 479! 
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