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castaneous ; rachis flexuose ; fr. 15 in. 1., 2-3J in. br., lanceolate, 3-4-pinnatifid ; 

 pinnm distant, stalked, 3-4 in. 1., lanceolate-deltoid, reflexed, falcate, obtuse ; 

 pinnl. stalked, spreading or reflexed, obtuse, oblique-ovate ; segm. few, obovate 

 or oblong, lowest nearly free, pinnati&d ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces 

 both pilose ; sori falling short of the edge. — Kuhn, Linn. SO. p. 70, 



Hab. Central Brazil, St. ffilaire. 



49*. G. decomposita, Baker; st. 1 ft., naked, castaneous, with deciduous yellow 

 meal, like slightly-flexuose rachis ; fr. lanceolate-deltoid, 1^ ft. 1., 1 ft. br., 4^5- 

 pinnatifid ; pinnce close, lanceolate, stalked, lowest largest ; pinnl. close, stalked, 

 patent, deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; final Wes linear, 1-nerved, 

 acute, upper simple, lower 3-4-nate flabellate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 bright-green, glabrous, lower scattered over with yellow meal j sori slender, con- 

 fluent where the lobes join, running up into them. 



Hab. Hort. Kew, probably Andine. 



49*. G. Orhignyana, Mett. ; fr. ample, subscandent, 4-pinnatifid; racMs flex- 

 uose, castaneous ; pinnce patent, ovate-oblong, above 1 ft. 1. ; pinnl. stalked, ovate- 

 oblong, lower reflexed ; lower segm, reflexed, stalked, ovate-oblong, obtuse ; final 

 lobes obovate, blunt ; texture membranous, flaccid ; both surfaces setulose ; veins 

 flabellate, sevei-al times dichotomous ; sori medial. — Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 70. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia, D'Oriigny, Hi, 299. 



49*. G. preliensibilis. Baker ; fr. ample, scandentj 4-6-pinnatifid ; rachis cas- 

 taneous, naked, those of the pinnse remarkably zigzag ; \oviev pinnm long-stalked, 

 oblong-lanceolate, j-1 ft. 1. ; lower pinnl, much reflexed, distinctly-stalked, lan- 

 ceolate-deltoid, 4-6 in. 1., upper patent ; final lobes close, 3-4 lin. br., patent, 

 cuneate-flabellate, -j-^ in. br., shallowly incised ; textv/re chartaceous ; surfaces 

 green, under with a few scattered bristles ; sezras Uabellate, distinctly raised. 



Hab. Andes of Sandillano, 8-9000 ft., Pearce. 



GO*. G. (Sell.) abyssinica, Baker ; rhizome wide-creeping ; scales grey,membranous, 

 lanceolate, clathrate ; fr. simple, lanceolate, 1 ft. 1., 5-f in. br., narrowed to point 

 and gradually to a short compressed stipe ; texture subcoriaceous, not at all rigid ; 

 surfaces green, naked ; areolcs long and narrow, 3-4-serial between midrib and 

 edge exappendiculate ; sori linear-oblong, 3-4 lin, 1., near the midrib distant from 

 one another, slightly oblique. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Schimptr, Ko. 1U5 of ooUeotion of 18C3-8. 



80. G. (Sell.) Maingaj/i, Baker; st. J\ ft., dull-brown, naked; fr, deltoid, 

 under 1 ft. 1., with 5 oblong-lanceolate jpiramiK, the end one largest, 6-6 in. 1., lii-21 

 lin. br., slightly repand, narrowed gradually at base, the lowest pair distant ; 

 texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; main veins distinct to edge, \ in. apart ; 

 areolas copious, minute, with free included veins ; sori very copious, minute, irre- 

 gular, punctiform or confluent in lines or curves. 



Hab. Malacca, Maingay, 1809. 



LVI.— VITTARIA. Page 395-6. 



3*- V. piimila, Mett. ; rh'kome short ; scales under |- in., lanceolate-subulate, 

 toothed at base ; fr. linear, \^-2 in. 1., ^ in. br., obtuse, narrowed at base, with 

 edge much reflexed ; texture coriaceous ; veins entirely immersed, distant, oblique, 

 the midrib very prominent, truncate, not dilated at the base ; sori hidden b\ 

 revolute edge, medial between midrib and margin. — Kuhn, Linn, 36. p, 67. 



Hab. Borneo, Wallace. 



