458 ALSOPHILA. 



16*. A. prcecincta, Kunze ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; racMses dull-brown, 

 glabrous, smooth ; pinnce oblong-lanceolate, 1-1^ ft. 1. ; pinnl. lanceolate, dis- 

 tinctly stalked, 3-4 in. 1., j-1 in. br., cut down to a broad wing ; segm. blunt, close, 

 subfalcate, crenulate, 2-3 lin. br. ; texture aubcoriaceous ; both sides bright-green, 

 naked ; wins 7-8-jugate, those of the fertile segments simple, of the barren forked ; 

 sori minute, marginal. — Baker, Fl. Bras.fasc, p. 324. *. 54. 



Hab. Bahia, Blamchet, 



16*. A. oblonga, Klotzsch ; fr, ample, tripinnatifid ; racMses grey, naked and 

 smooth below ; pinnce lanceolate, 1-1|^ ft. 1. ; pinnl. close, sessile, ligulate, 1^-2 

 in. 1., ^-f in. br., cut down to a distinct wing ; segm. close, ligulate, blunt, entire, 

 J in. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; both sides green, glabrous except ribs above ; 

 veins 4-6-jugate, simple ; sori minute, medial. — Baker, Fl. Bras, fasc, 49. 

 p. 323. 



Hab. British Guiana, Bich, Schomburglc, 1125 ; Appun, 174. 



16*. A. fioribunda, Hook. MSS. ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; racMses strami- 

 neous, clothed with minute firm raised scales on the lower side ; pinnce lan- 

 ceolate, 12-16 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnl, ligulate, blunt, sessile, § in. br., cut W- 

 way down into close blunt subentire segm, under \ in. br. ; textv/re subcoriaceous ; 

 upper surface bright-green, naked, lower paler, glabrous, with dense minute pale 

 bullate scales on the ribs ; veins 4-6-jugate, simple ; sori minute, medial. 



Hab. Mount Campana, East Peru, Spruce, 4715. 



16*. A. falcata, Mett. ; fe. ample, tripinnatifid ; racMses grey-stramineous, 

 glabrous below, smooth ; pinnce lanceolate, 1^-2 ft. 1., 3-3f in. br. ; pinnl. lan- 

 ceolate, sessile, falcate, -^ in. br., cut about halfway down into close denticulate 

 blunt segm. scarcely ^ in. br. ; texture moderately firm ; both swfaces glabrous, 

 and without scales ; veins simple, 3-jugate ; sori minute, lower in lobe medial, 

 upper subcostular. — Kuhn, Linn, 36. p, 165. 



Hab. Island of Gorgona, Seemama, 



17*. A. ScUimii, Mett. ; fr. ample, tripinnate ; racMses pale-brown, densely 

 pilose, and clothed with large linear-subulate brown scales ; pinnce oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, H-2 ft. 1. ; pinnl. sessile, ligulate, 3-4 in. 1., |-1 in. br., cut down to the 

 rachis or a narrow wing ; segm. close, falcate, ligulate, denticulate, 1-1 J lin. br. ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; ribs on both sides densely pilose, and the rest of the surface 

 slightly so ; veins 9-12- jugate, forked ; sori costular, filling up nearly the whole 

 of the fertile segments except the tip ; recep. densely pilose. — Kuhn, Linn. 36. 

 p. 157. 



Hab. Andes of Columbia, Schlim, 223 ; Limdig, 254. — Midway between elongata and 

 paleolata. 



38*. A. Macgillivrayi, Baker ; fr. ampk, tripinnatifid ; racMses substrami- 

 neous, smooth, and glabrous beneath ; pinnce oblong-lanceolat^ 12-16 in. 1. ; 

 pinnl. lanceolate, distinctly stalked, cut down to a narrow wing, 2^-3 in. 1., J-f 

 in. br. ; segm. 1^-2 lin. br., close, blunt, subfalcate, denticulate ; texture subco- 

 riaceous ; both sides green, glabrous, the lower with a few minute broad pale 

 scales on the ribs ; veins 9-10-jugate, forked above the middle ; sori minute, 

 medial. 



Hab. Louisiade Archipelago, MacgilUvray. 



44*. A. Loddigesii, Kze. ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; racMses pale-brown, glossy, 

 glabrous, muricated ; pinncs oblong-lanceolate, f-1 ft. 1. ; pinnl. close, sessile, 



