474: ADIANTUM. 



side segm. rhomlDoid, i-| in. 1., lower border straight in a line with stalk, inner 

 touching rachis, outer distinctly lobed ; lower segm. equilateral, imbricated over 

 main rachis ; surfaces naked, bright-green ; sori round, placed in final lobes, 4-6 

 to a segment.— ^wAre, lAnn. SG. p. 77. A. decorum, Moore, Gard. Chron. 1869, 

 P..5W,. 



Hab. Andes of Peru.— Midway between concimmm and cuneatum. 



45*. A. tinctum, Moore ; st. 4-6 in. 1., black, glossy, naked ;/r. J ft. 1., deltoid, 

 bipinnate; lowev petioles 1 lin. 1. ; side pinnl. rhomboid, 3-4 lin. I., lower edge 

 straight, inner parallel with 'rachis, or just wrapped over it, outer shallowly 

 bluntly lobed ; lowest pinnl. equilateral, imbricated over main rachis ; surfaces 

 glabrous, bright-green tinged with red at first j sori round, placed in final lobes. 

 —Proc. Hort. Soc. 2. 543. 



Hab. Andes of Peru. — ^Very near Wagneri, but less compound, with shorter pedicels. 



45*. A. ritbellum, Moore ; st. 4-6 in. 1., black, glossy, naked ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., 

 deltoid, bipinnate ; lower petioles 1-1^ lin. 1. ; uppermost side pinnl. cuneate- 

 flabellate, nearly sessile, entire, lower rhomboid, J in. ]., with lower border in a 

 line with petiole, or rather decurved, inner produced over rachis, outer deeply 

 lobed, and lobes finely toothed ; end and lowest pinnl. deltoid in lower half, 

 ^ in. br. ; texture membranous ; surfaces bright-green, glabrous, reddish when 

 young ; sori round, placed in the tips of the lobes. — Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 865, 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia, Pearce. — Very near the two preceding. 



45*. A. Moorei, Baker ; st. 6-8 in. 1., naked, black ; fr. deltoid, 6-9 in. I., 2-3- 

 pinnate; lower petioles 1-1^ lin. 1. ; side segm. |-| in. 1., rhomboid, lower edge 

 deflexed from tip of pedicel, inner not imbricated over rachis, outer lobed halfway 

 down ; surfaces bright-green, glabrous ; sori round, placed in tip of lobes. — 

 A. amabile, Moore, Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1090. Florist, 12,12,, p. 279. {figure) 

 lion Lielm. et Fourn. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, Pearce. 



46*. A. convolutum, Fourn. ; fr, 1 ft. 1., deltoid, 4-pinnate ; rachises naked ; 

 pinnce long-stalked, lowest deltoid, compound, upper lanceolate, simply pinnate; 

 final pedicels erecto-patent, 1-2 lines ; final segm. subquadrangular, barren \ in. 

 br., lower border continuing the pedicel, or rather decurved, upper and outer 

 deeply bluntly lobed, inner upper corner imbricated over the rachis ; lowest and 

 end segment cuneate-flabellate ; sori 2-4 to a segment, lg,-2| lin. br. — Fil. Mex, 

 p. 127. t. 6. 



Hab. Mexico, Oheisireght 406, Batten 18. — Well marked from all the other species of 

 the group by its fewer longer sori. 



46*. A. rigidulum, Mett. ; st. 4-6 in. 1., black, naked, like rachises ; fr. 6-8 

 in. 1., ovate, 4-pinnate ; segm, caducous, distinctly stalked, cuneate or rhomboid- 

 oblong or obovate, the barren ones denticulate ; textv/re chartaceous ; both sur- 

 faces glaucescent j sori transversely oblong, 3-6 to a segment. — Kuhn, Linn. 36. 

 i?. 76. 



Hab. West Indies. — Intermediate between temrum and fragile in the shjipe of the 



65. A. curvatum, var. A. hrasiliense, Raddi ; more robust ; rachises more 

 pubescent ; segm, shorter, broader, blunter. 



Hab. Brazil 



