NEPHKODIUM, 



501 



copiously pinnate in lowest quaternary lobes ; sori medial, middle-sized ; inv. 

 glabrous, fugacious. — Aspidium, Mett. KuTin, Fil. Afr. 130. 



Hab. Equatorial Guinea, Cwnor. 



145*. N. (Last.) flexuosum. Baker ; fr. ample, tripinnatifid ; primary racjiis 

 zigzag, stramineous, clothed with woolly hairs and lanceolate scales ; pinnw 

 oblong-lanceolate, stalked, with less flexupse rachises, central 8-9 in. 1. ; pinnl. 

 close, ligulate, central 2 in. 1., upper sessile, straight, lower short-stalked, deflexed ; 

 seffm. oblong, close, blunt ; texture moderately thick ; surfaces green, shortly 

 pubescent, the ribs below rather scaly ; veins pinnate in tertiary segments ; sori 

 medial, minute ; inv. glabrous, fugacious.^Aspidium, FSe, Fil. Bras. p. 138. 

 *. 47./g. 2. 



Hab. Hio Janeiro, Qlaa,(m, 2458. 



148*. N. (Last.) flrmifolium. Baker ; st. \\-% ft., like rachises, pale-brown, 

 naked ; fr. 2 ft. 1., deltoid, tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 

 6-9 in. I., 2-3 in. br. ; pinnl. ligulate-lanceolate, close, falcate, acute, cuneate- 

 truncate on lower side at base, upper decurrent, lower subsessile, with short 

 close blunt ligulate lobes ; texture rigidly subcoriaoeous ; surfaces green, 

 glabrous ; veins pinnate in tertiary segments ; sori in a row close to midrib of 

 pinnl., with a few more to lower segm. ; inv. glabrous, fugacious. — N. acutum, 

 edit. 1. ex parte. Mk, Sp. t. 271. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spi-uce, 4662. — Differs from acutum by its glabrous rachises 

 and much narrower and less deeply-cut pinnules. 



151*. N. (Last.) cvhense. Baker ; st. tufted, stramineous, \-\ ft., with large 

 light ferruginous lanceolate scales at and near the base ; fr. oblong-deltoid, 

 1^ ft. 1., 4-6-pinnatifid ; many pinnce stalked, lanceolate, 2-3 in. br. ; pinnl. 

 stalked, lanceolate-deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final foJes lan- 

 ceolate or trapezoid, erecto-patent, largest entire sessile under 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 rigidly subcoriaceous ; venules fine, immersed, erecto-patent ; sori minute, infra- 

 medial ; inv. glabrous, subpersistent. — Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 108. 



Hab. Cuba, Wright, 1099. — Like denticulatum, but cutting not nearly so acute. 



152*. N. (Last.) Zepinei, Baker ; /r. 6 ft. 1., qnadripinnatifid ; rachis stout; 

 pinnce distinctly stalked, deltoid ; pinnl. short-stalked, oblong-lanceolate ; seffm. 

 ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely toothed at the tip, their lobes obtusely 

 toothed ; texture chartaceous ; surfaces glabrous, duU-green ; sori marginal at 

 the end of the teeth. — Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 118. 



Hab. Tahiti, Zepime, 81. — Marked in the group by its marginal sori, compared by 

 Kuhn to those of N. deparimdes. 



153*. N. (Last.) Boivini, Baker; rachises stramineous, naked beneath ;/r. 

 ample, deltoid, 4-pinnatifid ; low^r pinnce deltoid, stalked, IJ ft. 1., 1 ft. br., 

 produced on lower side ; pinnl. oblong-lanceolate, stalked, cuneate-truncate on 

 lower side at base ; final lobes close, confluent below, lower oblong, blunt, 

 subentire, J^ in. br. ; upper subacute, rather falcate ; texture thin but firm ; 

 surfaces dark-green, upper pilose, lower finely scaly on ribs ; veins copiously 

 pinnate in final lobes ; sori copious, middle-sized, submarginal ; inv. fugacious. 



Hab. Madagascar, Boimn. 



163*. N. (Last.) macrostegium, Hk. ; st. 2-3 ft., with many linear brown scales 

 near base ; fr. deltoid, 2 ft. each way, 4-6-pinnatifid ; rachises grey, glossy, 

 naked ; lower pinnce long-stalked, deltoid, produced on lower side ; pinnl. and 

 lower segm. stalked, deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final 



