31 PTEBIS, § ETJPTEBIS. IGl 



33. V.flab^ata, Thnnb. ; s/. 1 ft. or more 1., strong, erect, naked, glossy, straw- 

 colonred ; fr. 1-3 ft. 1., 1 ft. or more br. ; terminal pinna 6-12 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., 

 made up of nnmerons almost contiguous erecto-patent linear lobes 1-2 in. 1., 2-3 

 lin. br., which reach down nearly to the rachis, and are finely serrated when 

 barren ; pintuB several on each side, similar to the terminal one, the lowest with 

 1 to 3 similar smaller pinnl. from the base on the lower side ; texture herbaceous ; 

 racJiis and both surfaces naked ; veins ^ in. apart at the base, usually once forked ; 

 sori narrow, continuing along nearly the whole length of the segments. — 18, P. 

 ' Ascensionis, Swartz ; much smaller, the lower pinnse sometimes with several small 

 compound pinnules on both sides. — Bi. Sp. 2. p. 185. 



Hab. Cape Colony northward to Bourbon, Abyssinia, and Fernando Po. — This cornea 

 veiy near P. arguia. The best character is in the sori, which here are longer and nar- 

 rower. The Ascension plant grows in a very exposed situation, and has more or less 

 horizontal fronds with ascending or nearly vertical pinnse. 



34^. tr^Bu^fcJR. Br. ; s?. 1 ft. 1. or more, strong, erect, naked, polished, bright 

 chesnuE^Brown ; Jr. 2-4 ft. 1., 6 in. to 2 ft. br., the apex with a few closely-placed 

 linear entire lobc^ which are decurrent obliquely at the base, the largest hardly 

 more than 1 in. 1., 1 lin. br. ; upper pifiTKB simply pinnate, with numerous similar 

 lobes on both sides, the largest about 6 in. 1., more than 1 in. br. ; Unoerpinnm 

 often very compound, sometimes 1 ft. L and bipinnate ; texture herbaceous ; rachis 

 and both surfaces naked ; veins sunk, \ in. apart at the base, usually once forked ; 

 sori copious, sometimes filling up the whole segment except the midrib. — Sh. Sp. 2. 

 p. 174. t. 120. B.— ft P. Kingiana, Endl. ; ult. segm. larger, sometimes 1^ in. 1., 

 nearly \ in. br., without being toothed. — Wc. Sp. 2. p. 188. 



Hab. Australia, Van Diemen's Xiaud, and Xew Zealand. — ^ was originally pnblisbed 

 from Xorfolk Island, but some of the New Zealand specimens agree with it, I have 

 seen a specimen in Herb. Bawson from the Cape, called P. cc^a, Pappe. 



35. P. chilensis, Desv. ; St. 6-12 in. 1., erect, naked, pale or brownish ; fr. 

 1-2 ft. 1., 9-18 in. br., deltoid, only the very uppermost lobes simple ; • upper 



pinncE lanceolate, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into short linear-oblong 

 pinnl., which are finely serrated in the barren frond ; lowest pinnw sometimes 

 1 ft. I., deltoid, with several bipinnatifid pinnl. on each side, the largest un- 

 divided xfftn. not more than ^ in. 1., ^ in. br. ; texture herbaceous, or sLghtly 

 coriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veins sunk, oblique, about 1 lin. 

 apart at the base, usually once forked ; sori extending from the base to the apex 

 of the segments.— 5i. Sp. 2. p. 175. 1. 120. A. 



Hab. ChUi and Juan Fernandez. — Agardh gives also Peru. It is near P. tremida, 

 but the segments are broader and shorter, and in the barren frond finely toothed. 



***** Tripartitae. Iiouxsi pinntB trntch larger than the others, often nearly 

 equalling the central portion of the frond. Sp. 36-39. 



36. P. longipes, D. Don ; st. 1-2 ft, 1., erect, naked, straw-coloured ; terminal 

 pinna about 6 in. 1., 1 in. br., with numerous erecto-patent linear-oblong lobes 

 on each side, which are cut down very nearly to the rachis, about § in. 1., 2 lin. br., 

 bluntly toothed towards the point when barren ; lateral pinnm numerous on each 

 side (ijften 20), not more than 1 in. apart, the longest simple one about 6 in. 1,, 

 the lowest large, compound, sometimes nearly as large as the central portion of 

 the frond, 1 ft. 1., 6 in. br. ; feature herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; 

 veins not prominent, once forked, about J in. apart at the base ; sori faUiug short 

 of the apes of the segments. — P. peUucens, Agardh. Hh. Sp. 2. p. 191. P. 

 Zoliingeri, Mett. 



Hab. East Himalayas, Ceylon, New Guinea, and a plant, with more caudate pinnules, 

 and segmenla not so close, and decurrent at the base, gathered by M!r. Cuming in the 



