48. POLTPODIUM, § EUPHEGOPTEKIS. 805 



arcuate-ascending, close, lower twice forked f son in a single row, not far from 

 the edge of the pinnse, terminal on anterior forks of veins. 



Hab. Cuba, C. Wright, 3924. 



6. P. (Pheg.) alleopterwm, Eunze ; st. 1| ft. 1. ; fr. \\ ft. 1., 1 ft. br., ovate- 

 oblong, slightly narrowed below ; pinncB 6 in. 1., IJ in. br., the edge inciso- 

 crenate, with subfalcate acute or obtuse lobes, the base unequal, the lower pinnse 

 stalked ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; racMs and both sides naked ; iieinlets 

 2-5 on a side ; sori large, close to the main veins. — Mett, Pheg. p, 19. 



Hab. Oolumbia. 



6. P. (Pheg.) tijuccanum, Raddi ; St. \-l\ ft. 1., stout, erect, densely clothed 

 with fibrillose brown scales ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 12-18 in. br. ; lower pinnm stalked, 

 6-9 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., cut about halfway down to the rachis into blunt entire 

 lobes 5 in. br., lower ones not reduced ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachises 

 scaly ; wider side naked ; veinleta 6-9 on a side, simple, with the sori below the 

 middle.— Z?/fc. Sp. 4. p. 239. 



Hab. Guiana, Brazil, and Peru. 



7. P. (Pheg.) Oarrii, Baker ; **. stramineous, ^-1 ft., slightly scaly throughout 

 like rachis ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 ft., simply pinnate ; pinnce 16-20-jugate, 

 ligulate acuminate, lower short-stalked, 4-6 in. 1., j-1 in. br., bluntly lobed, 

 lowest not reduced, base unequal, lower side more cuneate ; texture moderately 

 firm ; surfaces bright-green, glabrous, the midribs below rather scaly ; veins in 

 pinnate groups corresponding to the lobes, with 3-4 distant veinlets on a side ; 

 eori near main veins. — Fil. Bras. p. 697. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Limt. Oarr, Prof. Cwmmgham. 



** Pinnce cut more than halfivay down to the rachis into close, regular, suheniire 

 lobes. Sp. 8-24. Veinlets all simple except in 20-24. 



8. P. (Pheg.) ccespitosum, Baker ; rhizome short-creeping ; St. slender, grey, 

 naked, 6-9 in. ; /;•. oblong-lanci-oiate, bifii-'nctifid, i ft. 1. ; pinnce sessile, lanceo- 

 late caudate, lower 2-2^ in. 1., |-| in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close 

 blunt ligulate pinnl. 1 lin. br., lowest pinnse scarcely at all, lowest pinnl. on 

 both sides much reduced ; texture membranous ; surfaces green, the ribs slightly 

 pubescent; wins simple, distinct, 6-7-jugate ; sori minute, inframedial. — Phe- 

 gopteris, Fourn, Fil. Mex. p. 89. 



Hab. Mexico, BourgeoM, 2005. — General habit of Nephrodiwm chrysoldbwm. 



9. P. (Pheg.) deflexum, Baker; cavd. erect, the scales ovate, dull-brown ; st. 

 2-3 in. 1., slender, naked, stramineous ; fr. 8-12 in. 1., 2 in. br. ; pinnce 1 in. 1., 

 ;j in. br, ; lanceolate-acuminate, cut down to the rachis into pointed linear- 

 oblong lobes f lin. br., the lower pinnae deflexed, very distant and dwindling 

 down gradually to mere auricles ; texture herbaceous; rachis naked, stramineous; 

 both sides slightly hairy ; veins 4-6 on each side ; sori nearer the midrib than the 

 edge. — Phegop. Mett. Fil. Nov. Gran. 241. Nephrodium, Presl, 



Hab. New Granada, Lvndig, 321. — Habit of N. Beddomei. 



10. P. (Pheg.) ohtusilobum, Desv. ; st. densely tufted, about 1 ft. 1., slender, 

 nearly naked ; fr. 2 ft. or more 1., 8-10 in. br. ; pinnce 4-6 in. 1., |-| in. br., 

 narrowed gradually from the base to the point, cut down nearly to the rachis into 

 entire slightly falcate lobes J in. br. ; lower pinnce reduced gradually ; texture 

 herbaceous ; rachises naked or slightly pubescent ; veinlets 8-9 on a side ; sori 

 small, medial.— Aspidium Desvauxii, Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 131, 



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