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oLovate pinnatifid pinnl.; texture TaembTanous ; colour yellowish-green, the ribs 

 obscurely setnlose ; son few, axillary ; inv, immeised, cylindrical, with a dilated 

 mouth. — Kuhn, Linn. 35. p. 386. 



Hab. AneitetuD, MacgUlivray, 53. 



24*. T. concinnum, Mett. ; rhizome filiform, tomentose ; st. 3-4 lin., proliferous, 

 winged upwards ; Jir. ovate, y-| in. 1., rounded at the top, cuneate at the base, 

 bipinnatifid; rachis winged throughout; lower pinnce flabeUately pinnatifid 

 with bifid lowest /WBfiiy terfure membranous ; both. s»<fes glabrous, light-green; 

 gori usually lateral, rarely terminal ; inv. cylindrical, immersed, dilated at the 

 mouth. — Kuhn, Linn. 35. p. 385. 



Hab. Tahiti, VieiUard, Veico. 



26*. T. Armstrongii, Baker ; rhizontk capillary, wide-creeping ; St. filiform, 

 ■|-j in. ; fr. ^ in. 1., simple or forked or flabellately divided, with few blunt 

 simple or lowest rarely forked 1-veined ligulate erecto-patent divisions, ^1 

 lin. br. ; border as distinct as the midrib, bristle ciliated ; surfaces glabrous ; sari 

 1-4 to a frond, terminal on the lobes, minute^ obconical, immersed, with rounded 

 ciliated lips. 



Hab. New Zealand, Amslrcng. 



31. T.pusillum, var. quercifolium (H. & G.) ; much longer than the type, with 

 many deep primary divisions, the central again pinnatifid. 



31*. T. riridans, Mett. ; rhizome capillary, tomentose ; st. J-J in., flattened, 

 tomentose below ; Jr. rhomboid-oblong, cuneate at the base, ^| in. 1., bipin- 

 natifid, cut down to a broad wing into a few crowded pinnae, the lower with 

 several short ligulate 1-veined much-ascending lobes ; several spurious venules 

 parallel with the midrib ; colour bright-green ; surfaces naked ; sort copious, 

 terminal on lobes ; inv. 1 lin. deep, nearly free, with a deep funnel-shaped tube 

 and small rounded lips. — Kuhn, lAnn. 35. p. 389. 



Hab. Moulmein, See. C. Parish. 



32*. T. melanopus. Baker ; rhizome wide-creeping, thickly hlack-tomentose ; 

 St. very short, winged upwards ; fr. ^-1 in. 1., oblong or roundish, bipinnatifid ; 

 pinnw many, crowded, patent, much crisped, closely repand or pinnatifid, with 

 rounded or oblong lobes, ^ lin. br. ; edffe distantly ciliated, with large deciduous 

 bristles ; texture membranous ; colour yellow-green ; midrib zigzag, sending out 

 many erecto-patent branches to the edge ; sori tew, free, terminal ; inv. 1 lin. 

 deep, with a funnel-shaped tube and distinct rounded Ups. — ^T. Krausii, var. 

 crispatum, edit. 1. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador, Spruce, 5354. 



32*. T. subsessile, Mett. ; rhizome capillary, densely black-tomentose ; fr. 

 subsessile, ^f in. 1., rhomboid-oblong, rounded at the top, cuneate at the base, 

 bipinnatifid ; pinnw crowded, erecto-patent, the lowest flabellate-pinnatifid, with 

 ligulate close lobes ^ lin. br. ; texture membranous ; colour pale-green ; surfaces 

 glabrous ; sori few, terminal ; inr. with an immersed funnel-shaped tube and 

 dilated entire mout\i.^-^Kuhn, FU. Afric.p. SJ. 



Hab. West Tropical Africa, on the banks of the Bagroo river, G. Mann. 



4A*. T. aUernans, Carruth. ; rhizome naked, filiform, wide-creeping ; st. 

 scarcely any ; fr. A-| in. 1., rhomboid, 1-2-pinnatifid, with a few distant very 

 narrow (J line) ascending 1-veined divisions, with hyaline border ; rachis winged 

 throughout ; lower pinnce erecto-patent, 3-4 lin. 1., simple or pinnatifid, with 



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