CHEILANIHES. 



475 



65*. A. tetragonum, Schrad. ; St. 1 ft. or move 1., slightly pubescent, like the 

 rachises ; fr. pedato-tripinnate, 1 ft. 1., 15-18 in. br. ; end pinnm lanceolate, 6-9 

 in. I,, 5-6 in. br. ; segm. distinctly stalked, lanceolate, acuminate, ascending, 

 2|-3 in. 1., slightly lobed, rounded on the upper, cuneate-truncate on the lower 

 side at the base; surfaces glabrous, deep-green; sori short, linear, placed all 

 down both sides at the tip of the lobes. — Mart, Ic. Crypt, t, 63. Hk. f>p. Fil. II. 

 p. 28. 



Hab. Brazil. 



XXV.— CHEILANTHES. Page 131—142. 



1*. C. Lindigii, Mett. ; st. densely tufted, 1-4 in. 1., castaneous, naked ; fr. 

 lanceolate, 4-8 in. 1., f-1 in. br., narrowed from the middle to both ends, bipin- 

 natifid ; pinnae sessile, deltoid, cut down below to a narrow wing into oblong, 

 blunt pinnl. ; racMs naked ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces naked, pale, dull-gTeen ; 

 sori close, 6-8 to lowest pinnules. — Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 218. 



•Hab, Andes of New Granada, Lindig, 257. 



7*. C. Lidgatii, Baker ; rhizome creeping ; st. naked, 1 ft. 1., stramineous like 

 rachises ifr. deltoid, 1^-2 ft. 1. ; lowest />iK»CB largest, with three deeply pinnatifid 

 pinnl. from lower side, all the others lanceolate, 1^-2 in. br., cut down to a narrow 

 wing into close ligulate blunt lobes 3-4 lin. br., barren slightly toothed ; texture 

 rigidly coi'iaceous ; surfaces naked ; inv. f lin. br., crowded, glabious, rigid, per- 

 sistent. — Schizopteris Lidgatii, Hillebrand MSS. 



Hab. Oahu, Sillelrand. — ^Very distinct, with habit resembling Woodwardia radicans. 



8*. C. propinqua, Mett. ; st. 3-6 in. 1., naked, black like rachis ; jfr. 8-10 in. 1., 

 deltoid, acuminate, tripinnatifid ; lower pinncB largest, lanceolate, short-stalked, 

 3 in. 1., 1 in. br. ; pinnl. distinct, subsessile, lanceolate, blunt, cut down nearly 

 to rachis below into close blunt lobes ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces dull pale- 

 green, naked ; sori minute, crowded. — Fil. Nov. Gran. p. 219. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Lindig, 93. 



9*. C. glandulosa, Sw. ; fr. 2 ft. or more 1., lax, 4-pinnatifid ; rachis filiform, 

 flexuose, pubescent, subscandent; 2)z««(b stalked, deltoid, 3 in. 1., curyed upwards, 

 distant ; pinnl. ovate-lanceolate, unequal-sided, sessile ; segm. cuneate-ovate, 

 inciso-pinnatifid, with ligulate lobes ; surfaces glanduloso-pilose ; sori very 

 minute. — Mett. Cheil. t. 3. fig. 32. 



Hab. Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraes, Freyrms. 



14*. C. Boimni, Mett. ; rhizome short-creeping ; scales lanceolate, black, with 

 a brown edge ; st. 1-2 in. 1., castaneous ; jr. ovate-oblong, obtuse, bipinnatifid, 

 2 in. 1. ; raxhis pilose ; pinnce oblong, obtuse, lowest largest, free, produced on 

 lower side with obtuse lobes, the sterile ones quite entire ; texture membranous ; 

 under surface glabrous, upper puberulous ; veins many times forked, those of 

 the sterile frond stopping short of the edge ; sori close ; inv, broad, pale, mem- 

 branous. — Kuhn, Fit. Afr. p. 69. 



Hab. Mascaren and Comoro Isles. 



27*. C. Thwaitesii, Mett. ; st. densely tufted, castaneous, 1-5 in. 1., sparsely 

 clothed with spreading brown lanceolate scales ; fr. lanceolate, J-l ft. ]., 2-2J 

 in. br., bipinnate or tripinnatifid; rachis castaneous, naked, or slightly scaly 

 below ; pinncB distant, subsessile, lanceolate-deltoid, lower reduced ; pinnl. 

 blunt, upper adnate, entire, lower free, lanceolate, bluntly lobed ; texture thin; 



