110 CHAEACIEES OF TRIBES AKD GENEEA. 



forming nearly equal quadrang-ular areoles. Fertile pinnce 

 contracted linear, sinnously moniliform, 8 to 10 inches 

 long. Beceiitadcs compital, solitary on each lobule, forming 

 a row of punctiform sori on each side of the mid-rib. 



Type. A. Meyeiiiana, Scliott. 



Illust. Schott. Gen. Fil., t, 19 ; Hook, and Bauer, Gen. 

 rn., t. 91 ; Moore, Ind., p. 60, B. 



Obs. — This genus is founded on a remarkable and very 

 splendid Fern, possessing the general habit of Bnjnaria 

 coronans, but differing in the upper half of the frond being 

 contracted into narrow sinuose pinnas, and bearing a round 

 soma on each lobule, which latter character distinguishes 

 it from Brynstacltyi'm. It is also a native of Luzon. 



Species. A. Meyeniana, Schott. 



Since the publication of " Ferns, British and Foreign," 

 this rare and remarkable Pern has been introduced in a 

 living state to the gardens of this country. 



25. Aetheomeeis, J. Sm. 



Pleopletis, sect. Artliromeris, Moore's Index ; Polypodium sp., 

 aur.t. and Hook. sp. Fil. ; Plenridium spi., J. Sm. Ferns, Brit, 

 and For. 



Surcuhim short and thick. Fronds pinnate, stipitate, 

 2 to 3 feet long. Pinna; elliptical, lanceolate, 6 to S inches 

 long, 1 to 2i inches wide ; opposite petiole short, articulated 

 with the rachis ; margin entire, with a narrow membra- 

 neous border. Prim:irij veins evident, cost^form, straight ; 

 venules compound anastomosing. Beceptaclcs punctiform, 

 compital. Sori transverse, 1 or to 5 serial. 



Type. Polijpodiiim jnylandijolium, Don. 



Obs. — In my Catalogue of Cultivated Ferns, and also in 

 " Ferns British and Foreign," I placed the two known 

 species that constitute this genus under Pluridium., but 



