454 HEMITELIA. 



upper adnate crenate ; texture rigidly coriaceous ; both surfaces naked, green ; 

 veins 8-9-jugate, distant, distinct, forked ; sort large, filling up nearly the whole 

 space between costa and inflexed edge ; im. |-1 Un. br., deep, membranous, 

 persistent, breaking up irregularly. 



Ha,b. New Caledonia, BicJuM-da. 



65*. C. Lenormandi, Vieill. ; fr. ample, tripinuate ; racUses brown-stra- 

 mineous, naked, rough, with raised points ; pinnte oblong, 1 ft. 1. ; piTml. crowded, 

 lanceolate, 2^-3 in. 1., j in. br., cut down to rachis or a narrow wing, the lower 

 distinctly stalked ; seffm. ligulate, obtuse, subentire, J in. br. ; texture rigidly 

 coriaceous; surfaces naked, the lower glaucous or green; veins 5-6-jugate, 

 forked ; sori large, filling up the fertile segm., except the very tip ; inv. mem- 

 branous, glabrous, bursting irregularly. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Tieillard, 2249. — Eesembles closely Diclcsolda Berteioana in 

 texture and general habit. 



v.— HEMITELIA, Page 27—29, 



3. Var. H. Klotzschii, Karst. ; pinnm 2^-3 in. br. ; lobes close, shallow, blunt, 

 i in. br. ; veins 5-6-jugate.— ^«»«^. Farm. t. ISS.Jiff. 13, 



Hab. Columbia. 



9*. H. mnosa, Reich, fil. ; fr. bipinnate ; rachis clothed with ovate-lanceolate 

 scales ; pinnoe subsessile, ligulate, acuminate, ^ ft. J., \\ in. br., cut down to rachis 

 below into close, spreading, oblong blunt lobes ; lower veinlets once or twice forked ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; sori medial, mostly uniseriate, rarely incompletely bise- 

 riate; inv. dimidiate, firm, entire. — Kuhn, Linnosa, ZQ.p, 161. 



Hab. Caracas, Ap]^v,n. 



14*. H. rufescens, Mett. ; fr, ample, tripinuate ; racMses pale-brown, those of 

 the pinnsB furfuraceous beneath ; basal scales dense, membranous, linear-subulate, 

 j-1 in. 1., pale-brown with a whitish border ; pinnce oblong-deltoid, 12-15 in. 1. ; 

 pinnl. lanceolate, short-stalked, 3-4 in. 1., 1-1 j in. br., the lower shorter, deflexed ; 

 segm. adnate lanceolate, acute, lower not close, 1^-2 lin. br., inciso-crenulate ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; both sides green, the lower slightly scaly on the ribs ; vein- 

 lets 10-12-jugate ; sori large, filling the segments except the tip ; inv, minute, 

 hidden by the dense paraphyses, — Kuhn, Linn<ea, 36. p, 159. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruce, 4727. 



16*. H. Lindigii, Baker 'jfr. ample, tripinnatifid ; racMs stramineous, smooth, 

 naked ;pinncB oblong-lanceolate, 1^-2 ft. 1. -ypinnl. sessile, ligulate, 3-4 in. 1., f in. 

 br., cut down to a broad wing ; segm. blunt, close, 2 lin. br., distinctly toothed ; 

 factere rigidly coriaceous ; both sides green, naked ; veins 6-8-jugate, forked above 

 the middle ; sori medial, small ; inv, minute, obscure, depressed, -glabrous, 



Hab. Andes of Bogota, lAndig, 310. 



16*. H. nigricans, Presl ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; St. grey-stramineous, muri- 

 cated ; basal scales lanceolate, castaneous ; rachises grey, slightly pilose lielow j 

 pinnce lanceolate, 12-16 in. 1., 3 in. br. ; pinnl. ligulate, 1^-2 in. 1., g-i in. br.,' 

 cut down to a broad wing, lowest short-stalked ; ,iegm. ^ in. br., close, blunt, dis- 

 tinctly toothed ; texture moderately firm ; both sides green, the lower obscurely 

 pilose on the main ribs ; ®e?»S|^-5-jugate, lower only forked ; sori small, medial ; 

 inv. distinct, half-cupshaped, glabrous. — H, obscura, Mett. Karst, Fl, Columb. 

 2.t.\m,fig.%. 



