384 52. GYMNOGKAMME, §§§§§ CEROPTEEIS. 



broad ; texture pellucido-herbaceous ; veins and sori one to each ult. division, the 

 latter oblong.— if*. Sp. 5. p. 129. 2rtd Cent. t. 15. 



Hab. Khasya, Griffith.— Uahit of the three preceding, but not annual. 



48. G. hirta, Desv. ; st. tufted, 6-12 in. 1., glossy, dark chesnut-brown, slightly 

 pilose ; jfr. 6-12 in. 1., 4-8 in. br., ovate- deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 

 and pinnl. deltoid ; seffm. |-J in. each way, cuneato-flabellate, with blunt oblong 

 lobes ; teicture firm-herbaceous ; raeUs castaneous, often slightly flexuose, like 

 both sides more or less pilose ; vdns and sori 1 to each lobe, the latter confluent 

 in the centre of the segments. — G. laserpitiifolia, Kze. Hk. Sp. 6. p. 133. 



Hab. Columbia.— (7. hispidula, Klotzsch {Jamesonia, Kze.), is apparently a reduced 

 form. 



49. G. flemosa, Desv. ; st. 6-18 in. 1., glossy, chesnut-brown, flexuose, 

 slender ; fr. 3-4 ft. 1., scandent, tri- or quadripinnate ; rachises zigzag, branched ; 

 pinnce reflexed, subdeltoid in general outline ; segm, flabellately branched ; ult. 

 divisions linear or oblong, | lin. br., with 1 vein and oblong sorus to each ; 

 Jeiciare firm-herbaceous,— Jffifc. Sp. 5. p. 129. G. retrofracta, Bk S Gr. Bot. Misc. 

 3. 1. 112. 



Hab. Nicaragua to Peru. 



60. G. Pearcei, Moore ; St. 6-9 in. 1., glossy, chesnut-brown ; fr. about 1 ft. 

 each way,- deltoid, quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce the largest, 4-6 in. 1., sub- 

 deltoid ; pinnl. imbricated ; ult. divisions J in. 1., \ lin. br., simple or forked ; 

 teicture herbaceous ; rachis and both sides naked ; one vein and sorus to each ult. 

 division. — Moore, G. G. 1864, p. 340. 



Hab. Peru ; discovered by Mr. Pearce. — Allied to the preceding, but the divisions 

 much narrower, and rachis not flexuose. The crown of the root is slightly powdery. 



§§§§§ Ceropteris, LinJc. Differs from Eugymnogramme onh/ by the fi-onds 

 being coated beneath mth white or yellow powder. Sp. 51-57. 



61. G. (Cerop.) trifoliata, Desv. ; sJ. tufted, 8-12 in. 1., stout, erect, dark chesnut- 

 brown, the lower part scaly ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 6-8 in. br., pinnate ; lower pinnce 

 ternate, the upper ones simple, petiolate, 2-4 in". L, J-| in. br., linear-oblong, 

 nearly entire ; texture herbaceous, the under side usually naked in the barren 

 fronds, clothed in the fertile ones with white or yellowish powder. — Hk. Sp. 5. 

 p. 149. G. F. t. 4. . 



Hab. Cuba, southward to Peru and Brazil. — A variable plant. We include here three 

 species of F^e, — his Trismeiia argmtea, aurea, and microphylla. 



52. G. (Cerop.) triangularis, Kaulf. ; st. densely tufted, 6-12 in. 1., dark 

 chesnut-brown, glossy, nearly naked ; fr. 3-4 in. each way, deltoid ; lower 

 pinnce much the largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, the others lanceolate, deeply 

 pinnatifid, with oblong obtuse lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; powder varying 

 from deep orange to white.— Za. Sp. 6. p. 146. Mk. S Or. t. 153. Fil. Ex. 

 1. 163. 



Hab. Vancouver's Island and Oregon southward to Ecuador. 



63. G. (Cerop.) tartwrea, Desv. ; st. tufted, firm, 6-12 in. 1., dark chesnut- 

 brown, scaly towards the base ; fr. 1-2 ft. 1., 6-12 in. br., oblong-deltoid, hipin- 

 natifid ; pinnce lanceolate, the lowest the largest ; pinnl. oblong, obtuse, entire 

 or nearly so, united or the lower ones free ; texture subcoriaceous ; powder dense, 

 pure white. — G. dealbata, Link. — /3 G, ochracea, Presl ; pinnl. very regular and 



