50. NOTHOCHL.EKA, § ELNOTHOCUL.EXA. 371 



6. N. Doradilla, CoUa ; rhizome thick, clothed with lanceolate ferruginous 

 scales ; st. 3-4 in. 1., chesnut-brown, glossy, nearly naked ; fr. 4-5 in. 1., oblong- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce distant, stalked, oblong-deltoid, cut down 

 to the rachis into oblong-deltoid pinnl. with rounded lobes ; texture thick, cori- 

 aceous ; upper surface dark-green, nearly naked ; lower and rachis densely 

 clothed with small, linear, dark chesnut-brown scales. — N. sinuata, Brack, p. 19 

 [nm Kaulf.). N. Brackeniidgei, Baker. 



Hab. Peru, Brachenridge. 



6. N. iTuequalis, Kze. ; rhizome stout, the scales long, dense, fibrillose, bright- 

 ferruginous ; St. 3-6 in. ]., firm, erect, naked, stout, ebeneous ; Jr. 4-6 in. 1., 2-3 

 in. br., lanceolate or subdeltoid, tripinnatifid ; upper pinnce lanceolate, lower 

 deltoid, with blunt lanceolate pinnatifid pimil. ; texture thick ; both surfaces 

 densely coated with ferruginous woolly tomentum ; the rachis nearly naked. — 

 Hk. Sp. 5. p. 118. 



Hab. Maoalisberg, near Natal, Swrke; Angola, Welwitzsch, 147, 197. — A larger plant 

 than the last, almost as woolly, but the tomentDm brown. 



7. N. Aschenbomiana, Klotzsch ; st. tufted, 2-3 in. I., wiry, ebeneous, densely 

 scaly ; fr. 8-12 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; pinnae lanceo- 

 late, l-]^ in. 1., f in. br., cut down to the rachis into linear-oblong crenate or 

 pinnatifid pinnl. ; texture subcoriaceous ; upper surfa/:e pale-green and slightly 

 hispid, lower densely matted with linear, ciliated, bright-ferruginous scales, 

 beneath which it is subfarinose ; sori black, the edge not -inflexed. — Hk. Sp. 5. 

 p.U7.t.287.B. 



Hab. Texas and Mexico. — ^This and the next three are very near to one another. 



8. N. squamosa. Fee ; St. tufted, 1-4 in. 1., densely clothed with ovate-acu- 

 minate pale-brown scales ; fr. 3-4 in. 1., 1 in. or more br., ovate-lanceolate, 

 bipinnate ; pinnce opposite, the lowest^ in. 1., Jin. br., ovate, blunt, cut down to 

 the rachis below into several linear-oblong pinnl. ; texture thick, subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis and under surface densely covered with ovate- or lanceolate-acuminate 

 ciliated ferruginous scales ; sori brownish, the edge subscariose. — Cheil. Hk. Sp. 2. 

 p. 82. JSr. & G. t. 161. 



Hab. Mexico and Guatemala to Peru and the Argentine territory. — ^Probably this is 

 N. peruviana, Desv., and if so, that name is the oldest. Mettenius distinguishes from 

 this C. braohypus, 'Kze. {NothocTdcena, J. Sm.), by its shorter stem, and the presence of 

 long flaccid hairs as well as scales on the under surface. 



9. N. Marantas, R. Br. ; rhizome woody, the scales dense, fibrillose, bright-fer- 

 ruginous ; St. strong, wiry, 3-6 in. 1., more or less matted ; fr. 4-12 in. 1., 1 J-3 

 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate ; pinnce lanceolate, cut down to the rachis 

 into close, oblong, entire pinnl. 1 lin. br. ; texture thick, coriaceous ; upper surface 

 pale-green, naked, lower and rachis densely coated with lanceolate, bright-ferru- 

 ginous scales. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 120. 



Hab. Himalayas (up to 15,000 ft.), Syria, and Tauria, to Ardeche and Portugal ; 

 ■ Barbary States, Abyssinia, Azores, Madeira, Canaries, Cape Yerde Isles. 



10. N. Eckloniana, Kunze ; rhizome woody, the scales lanceolate, dense, bright- 

 ferruginous ; St. 3-6 in. 1., strong, erect, scaly ; fr. 6-12 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., bi- 

 tripinnatifid ; upper ^'raM(B close, the lower ones subdistant, deltoid ; pinnl. close, 

 lanceolate, pinnatifid or pinnate, with short, oblong seffm. ; texture thick, cori- 

 aceous ; upper surface pale-gi-een, lower and rachis densely clothed with bright- 

 ferruginous scales. — Hk. Sp. 5. p. 116. 



Hab. Cape Colony and Natal. — ^Usually more divided than the last, but very doubtfully 

 distinct. A form with white tomentum found in Transvsial territory by Mr. Todd. 



