6. ALSOPHILA. 33 



remote, petiolate, 5-6 in. 1., 5-6 lines w., spreading, linear-lanceolate, subflexuose, 

 finely acuminate, subirregularly pinnatifid about half-way to the costa ; 

 lobes ovate, entire ; veins pinnated ; veinlets simple or rarely forked ; sori rather 

 copious, occupying the lower portion of the lobes half-way between the costule 

 and the margin ; reeept. very hairy, very slightly elevated. —Hk. Sp. 1. p. 38. 



Hab. Oi^n Mountains, BraziL 



8. A. procera, Klf. ; «*. aculeated and paleaceous below with very large and 

 exceedingly glossy, dark brown scales; fr. submembranaceous, bipinnate, 

 glabrous, pinnatifid at the apex ; prim. pinncB 1 ft. 1. or more, the rachis winged 

 above ; pinnl. 2-3 in. 1., from a truncated sessile base 4-5 lines w., oblong- 

 acuminate or obtuse, pinnatifid half-way down to the costa ; costce and costules 

 beneath bullato-squamulose ; lohes short subrotundate, often acute, mostly entire ; 

 veins simple ; sori small on all the lobes, between the costule and the margin. — 

 Mart. Gr. Bras. p. 64. *. 40 {very good). Mk. Sp. 1. p. 38. A. armigera, Kze. 

 Sk. Sp. 1. p. 39. 



Hab. Trop. America, frequent. A. Arhuscuja, Presl, is a variety with white builate 

 scales on the ribs of the under snriace of the pinnules. 



9. A. Schiedeana, Pr. ; "fi: ample, submembranaceous, bipinnato-pinnatifid ; 

 pinncE and pinnl. alternate, remote, subsessile, the latter lanceolate, unequal at 

 the base, shortly acuminate, deeply pinnatifid ; segm. oblong, falcate, sinuato- 

 crenate, subdilatate and obtuse at the apex ; soi-i arranged between the costnle 

 and the margin, small, somewhat apart ; costce and costules sparingly fusco- 

 paleaceous ; part, and univ. rachises sulcated, fusco-tomentose above, beneath 

 acnleolate ; st. aculeate ; cazid. arboreous." — Kze. in Linn. 13. p. 149. Hi. Sp. 

 1. p. 48. 



Hab. Meadco, Schiede, lAebmann, 



10. A. compta. Mart. ; /r. ample, tripinnatifid ; pinnce oblong-lanceolate, 

 1-1 J^ ft. 1.; pinnl. sessile, lignlate, 2-2^ in. 1., ^fin. br., cut down to a narrow 

 wing ; segm. close, snbfalcate, blunt, denticulate, under ^ in. br. ; texture mode- 

 rately firm ; both sides bright green, glabrous, the ribs below with a few minute 

 white bnllate scales ; veins 6-8-jugate, simple, distLnct ; sori minute, medial. — le. 

 Crypt. Bras. t. 44. 



Habi Mexico to Brazil. — ^Perhaps only a variety of infesta with simple veins. 



11. A. paleolata. Mart. ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; rachises stramineous, smooth, 

 finely pubescent below; pinnce oblong-lanceolate, 1^-2 ft. 1.; pinnl. ligulate, 

 sessile or short-stalked, 3-4 in. 1., ^f in. br., cut down to a narrow wing ; segm. 

 lignlate, blunt, subentire, J in. br. ; texture moderately thick, scarcelj' coriaceous ; 

 both sides densely pUose, the lower with copious pale broad minute scales on the 

 ribs ; veins 7-9-jngate, forked ; S(yri large, medial. — Crypt. Bras. t. 44. A. Gard- 

 neri. Hoot. Sp. 1. p. 41. A. senilis, Klatssch. A. pauciflora, Presl. 



Hab. Columbia and Brazil. A. Tiypolampra, Kze., Knfan, Linn. 36,158, seems from 

 the description to be a large variety, with sharply toothed segments, the lower snbpin- 

 natifid, with snbpinnate veinlets. 



12. A. aspera, Br. ; st. and rachis strongly aculeated, main (sometimes strongly 

 aculeated too) and partial rachis above strigiUose, slightly scaly beneath and on 

 the costa, the rest glabrous, often glossy ; fr. bipinnate, coriaceous ; pinnl. 

 shortly petiolate, oblong with an acuminated point ; pinnatifid ^ or § of the way 

 to the costa ; lobes oblong-ovate, often rather acutely serrulate ; costa and simple 

 or forked veins of the same colour and texture as the frond, hearing small. 



