136 25. CHEILANTHES, §§ EUCHEILANTHES. 



Hab. Limestone rocks near Moulmein, Malayan Peninsula ; disoorered by the Rev. 

 C. S. Parish. — A larger plant than C, mysuremia, but very doubtfully distinct. — ^From the 

 Ceylonese C. laxa, Moore, it differs mainly by its tomentose rachis. 



23.' C. hirta, Swartz ; st. tufted, 2-4 in. 1., strong, erect, densely coated with 

 spreading bright reddish-brown woolly hairs ; fr. 4-12 in. 1., 2-5 in. br., ovate- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; pinnce opposite, spreading from the main rachis at 

 right angles, lanceolate, 1-3 in. 1., cut down to the rachis into numerous oblong 

 pinnl. which are scarcely more than J in. 1., and again inciso-pinnatifid ; texture 

 snbcoriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces more or less tomentose ; margin of the 

 segm. much incurved ; sort copious. — Jli:. 8p. 2. p. 92. t. 101. B. — /3, G. pmrviloba, 

 Swz. ; rachis and surfaces less tomentose ; pinnae shorter, with the segm. and apex 

 slightly divided and convolute. — Hk. Sp. I. c. 



Hab. Cape Colony northward on the east to Bourbon, on the west to Angola. — There 

 is a specimen from Java from Dr. Blume in the Hookerian Herbarium, and Mr. Moore gives 

 it as Chinese. Our a varies much in size and hairiness, and includes three species of 

 F^e; viz., his Chdlanthes olvoacea (a large form, with the margin of the segm. less incurved) 

 and his MyHopteris coniracta and vntermedia. It might as suitably be placed in Physa- 

 pteris as here. C. glandulosa, Pappe and Eawson, is a fonn. 



24. C. viseosa, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. I., strong, erect, wiry, dark chesnut- 

 brown, polished, pubescent ; fr. 4-6 in. each way, deltoid, tri- or quadripin- 

 natifid ; pinnce in pairs, the lowest much the largest ; pinnl. of the lower side 

 larger than the others, sometimes lJ-2 in. 1., lanceolate, with narrow linear- 

 oblong segm., which are again cut down to the rachis into small beaded ultimate 

 divisions ; textv/re herbaceous in the barren frond, subcoriaceous in the fertile one 

 when mature ; rachises pubescent, like the stipe, both surfaces pilose ; sori mors 

 or less confluent.— /fi;. Sp. 2. p. 106. t. 93. B. 



Hab. New Mexico southward to Venezuela. — Easily distinguished from its allies by 

 the deltoid outline of the frond. C. leiicopodaj Link, is an allied Mexican plant, said to 

 have a straw-coloured stipe and smaller fronds, and C. termis, Presl, another allied Mexican 

 plant which I have not seen. From Allosorus hirsutuSf Presl, this differs by its hairy 

 stipes and rachis and Cheilanthoid involucre. 



** Stipe not hairy and slightly scaly only towards the base. Sp. 26-35. 



25. C. hispanica, Metten. ; st. csespitose, wiry, naked, dark chesnut-hrown, 

 polished, 2-3 in. 1., with a dense tuft of wiry linear-filiform dark chesnut-brown 

 scales at the base ; fr. 1-1^ in. 1., f in. br., deltoid, hi- or tripinnatifid ; pinnce in 

 opposite pairs, the lowest the largest, oblong or again branched on the lower 

 side ; segm. roundish-ohlong, crenate ; texture coriaceous ; rachis polished, upper 

 surface green, naked, under brown, tomentose ; sori small, copious. — Metten. 

 Cheil. p. 30. 



Hab Pocks on the banks of the Mondego, near Coimbra, Portugal, Welwiisch ; Spain, 

 fide Meitf/nivts. 



26. C. pulchella, Bory ; st. densely tufted, 3-9 in. 1., strong, erect, dark 

 chesnut-brown, polished, slightly fibrillose below ; fr. 3-12 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., 

 ovate-lanceolate or deltoid, tripinnate ; lower pinnae opposite, subdeltoid, 

 2-3 in. 1., 1-1-^ in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into numerous 

 linear-oblong segm. ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; 

 sori, copious. — UIc. Sp. 2. p. 109. t. 94. A. 



Hab. Madeira and the Canaries. — The Abyssinian plant placed here in "Species 

 Filicum" is 0. coriacea. 



27. C. varians, Hk. ; st. densely tufted, 2-6 in. 1., chesnut-brown, polished 

 but rather slender and brittle, fiibrillose below ; j^, 6-9 in. 1., lJ-2 in. br., Ian- 



