382 52. GYMNOGRAMME, §§§§ ETJGYMNOGEAMME. 



sometimes slightly pubescent ; veins close, simple, or once forked, the sori 

 runiiing along all of them, but stopping a space short of the edge.—//*. Up- 5. 

 p. 145. Coniogramme, Fee. 



Hab. N. India (up to 8,000 ft.) and Japan to the Sandwich Isles, Fiji, Malayan Islands, 

 and Ceylon, Fernando Po, Cameroon Mountains, and St. Thomas, West Tropical Africa. 

 —We include here three species of F^e, 0. ieiTulata, jmrnika, and setra, and G. pilosa, 

 Brack., as a hairy form. Dvplazium, fraodnmm and falcatum, D. Don, are the oldest 

 names. 



**** Frond tripinnatifid. Sp. 36-43. 



36. G. SchomhurgUana, Kze. ; st. tufted, 6-9 in. 1., naked, glossy, dark 

 chesnut-brown, flexuose ; jr. 2-6 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., ovate-lanceolate, tripin- 

 natifid ; lower pinnos deltoid, cut down to tlie rachis into spathulate cleft or 

 pinnatifid pinnl.; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis wiry like the stem ; veins 

 flabellate ; upper surface with a few firm hairs on the veins ; son irregular. — 

 Hh. Sp. 5. p. 127. 2nd Cent. t. 92. 



Hab. British Guiana, Eichd. Schomhargk 119S, Appwii 1091. 



37. G. aureo nitens, Hk. ; st. stout, densely clothed with deciduous dark- 

 ferruginous tomentum ; the rachis very flexuose and zigzag ; pinnas on stalks 

 J-1 in. 1., lanceolate-deltoid, the largest 4-6 in. 1., 2-3 in. hr., cut down to the 

 rachis below into blunt irregular subdeltoid pinnl. with broad blunt lobes ; 

 texture thick ; under surface and rachis densely matted with bright ferruginous 

 tomentum ; sori hidden, elongated, simple or forked. — Hk. Sp, 5. p. 130. Ic. t. 

 820. Eriosorus, Fie. 



Hab. Peru. — A fragment from Ecuador resembles this in cutting and habit^ but is much 

 less woolly, with naked ebeneous rachises. 



38. G. Matthewsii, Hk. ; st. tufted, 4-6 in. 1., glossy, dark chesnut-brown, 

 clothed with deciduous dense brown hairs ; fr. 12-15 in. 1., 4-5 in. br., oblong- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatifid; lower ^'»mi» distant, lanceolate-deltoid, 2 in. 1., 1 in. 

 br., cut down to the rachis below into oblong-deltoid blunt pinnl. with broad 

 rounded lobes, lowest pinnse distant and reduced ; texture coriaceous ; rachis 

 densely matted with brown hairs, and both sides pilose ; veirts conspicuous, 

 flabellate ; sori brown.— fiA. Sp. 5. p. 128. *. 290. 



Hab. Peru, Matthews, 1814. 



39. G. Warcemcdi, Mett. ; st. 6-8 in. 1., reddish, slightly hairy, at last naked ; 

 Jr. 6-15 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, tripinnatifid ; pinnas 2\ in. 1., lax, 

 sessile or stalked, ovate -rhomboidal or ovate-oblong obtuse, cut down neat-ly or 

 below quite to the rachis into ovate- rhomboidal obtuse pinnatifid jbjbm^., lower 

 pinnse distant, reduced ; texture coriaceous, rigid ; upper surface naked, the 

 lower and reddish flexuose rachis slightly hairy ; veins flabellate. — Mett. Fil. 

 Nov. Gran. p. 211. 



Hab. New Granada. 



40. G. cheilanthoides, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, 3-6 in. 1., wiry, slender, glossy, dark 

 chesnut-brown ; fr. 6-10 in. 1., 1 in. br., ligulate, tripinnatifid ; pinnce close, 

 deltoid, 4 in. 1., nearly, as broad, the upper lobes simple, linear-oblong, the lower 

 ones forked or trifid, the largest uit. divisions 1 lin. 1., i lin. br. ; texture 

 herbaceous, the glossy castaneous rachis and both sides sligiitly pilose ; veins 

 1 to each ult. division ; sori oblong Hk. Sp. 5. p. 135. Hk. S Or. Ic, t. 24. 



Hab. Mauritius and Tristan d'Aounha. 



41. G.flabeUata, Hk, ; st. 3-4 in. 1., wiry, glossy, dark chesnut-brown; /r., 



