496 NEPHRODIUM. 



subfalcate lotes 2-2^ lin. br. ; Umture firm, membranous ; surfaces naked, bright- 

 green ; veins 9-12-jugate, very distinct ; sori small, medial ; im. minute, fuga- 

 cious.— J'/. JBras./asc. 49. p. 474. Aspidium, Kge, 



Hab. Eio Janeiro, Om-dner, 16 ; Lieut. Carr. 



39*. N. (Last.) Gardneriamm, Baker ; st. i ft., slender, grey, glabrous ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, |-1 ft. 1. ; racMs grey, slender, finely downy ; 

 pinnoe subdistant, lanceolate, lower subsessile, much reduced at base, 2^-3 in. 1., 

 f-| in. br., lowest deflexed, cut down to a broad wing into close subacute entire 

 lobes 2 lin. br. ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces finely downy on_ ribs, glossy, 

 dull-green ; veins 8-9-jugate, very distinct ; sori small, medial ; inv. glabrous, 

 persistent. — Fl. Bras. fasc. 49. p. 4:74^. Aspidium, Kne. MSiS. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Gardner, 190. 



49*. N. (Last.) FutiKi, Baker ; short St. and raehis densely pubescent and 

 clothed throughout with firm spreading, linear, dark-brown scales ; fr; lan- 

 ceolate, 1 ft. 1., 2-2J in. br. at middle, bipinnatifid ; pinnae sessile, lanceolate, 

 bluntish, truncate at base, central If in. 1., f in. br., cut down to a narrow wing 

 into subentire blunt lobes 1 lin. br., many lower reduced gradually ; texture 

 moderately firm ; surfaces rather downy, and midrib beneath scaly ; veins 

 6-6-jugate; soi-i supra-medial ; inv. minute, fugacious. — Aspidium, Mett, Fil. 

 Nov. Gran, p. 64. 



Hab. New Granada, Fimlc, 502 ; Lmdig, 239. 



49*. N. (Last.) rigidulum. Baker ; st. 2-4 in., tufted, grey, naked ; basal 

 scales lanceolate, dull-brown; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 12-1.5 in. 1., 

 4-5 in. br. ; racJiis grey, finely downy ; pinnce sessile, ligulate-caudate, narrowed 

 below middle, but dilated and truncate at base, central 25-3 in. 1., ^ in. br., cut 

 down to a narrow wing into ascending blunt entire lobes, 1-1 J lin. br., lower 

 distant and much reduced ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked, 

 bright-green ; sori supra-medial ; irm. distinct, densely bristly. — Aspidium, 

 Mett. Kuhn, lAnn. 36. p. 109. 



Hab. Cuba, 0. Wright, 820. 



49*. N. (Last.) Ptarmicd, Baker ; st. 4-5 in., reddish-brown, with a few lan- 

 ceolate scales near base ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, 1 ft. 1., 4-5 in. br., bipinnatifid ; 

 raehis brown, naked ; pinnce ligulate-caudate, many lower short-stalked, with 

 basal lobes reduced, central 2|-3 in. 1., ^ in. br., lowest distant and much reduced, 

 cut down to a narrow wing into close bluntish ascending entire lobes 1 lin. br. ; 

 texture firm but thin ; surfaces naked ; veins 6-6-jugate ; sori medial, rather 

 large ; inv. minute, fugacious. — Fl. Bras. fasc. 49. p. 479. Aspid. Kze. Melt. 

 Aspid. p. 80. 



Hab. South Brazil.— Like some of the forms of conterminum, but many lower pinna 

 stalked and reduced at base. 



49*. N. (Last.) Fischeri, Baker; st. 2-3 in. 1., tufted, like raehis naked 

 stramineous ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 6-8 in. 1., 2^3 in. br. ; pinn<e 

 short-stalked, central 1^ in. 1., J in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close 

 entire blunt lobes 1-lJ lin. br., lowest distant, much reduced ; texture thin, 

 but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; veins 6-6-jugate ; sori medial ; inv. persistent, 

 glabrous.— i^/. Bras, fasc, 49. p. 479. Aspid. Mett. 



Hab. Brazil, 



49*. N. (Last.) microbasis. Baker ; caud. erect ; st. short, grey, naked ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 1| ft. 1., 6-6 in. br. ; racJds densely pubescent 



