674 I'lLICES. 



Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild., high mountains ; [French islands ! ; southern temperate zone and 

 tropical mountains]. 



153. Ii. magellanica, Besv. Low-arboiescent ; leaf pinnaiisect, rigid-coriaceous: 

 segments of the fertile ones linear, of the sterile oblong-linear, rounded or cuneate at the 

 subsessile or adnate base, entire; indusium large, at length lacerate. — Kiie. Analect. t. 12. — 

 L. mfa, Spreng. L. fiyani, Kaulf. — Perhaps passing into the preceding, but trunk " 1-4' 

 high," terminated by a coma of narrow, 1"— 14" long, brown paleee; segments 3"-6" long, 

 6" -10"' broad. — Hab. Montserrat {Kaulf); [Venezuela! to Fnegia; Mauritius to the 

 Cape !J. 



26. STENOGHL^NA, J. Sm. [excliis. sp., non, lee). 

 (Lomariopsis, Tie) 



Sori covering the under side of the contracted leaflets of a pinnate leaf, except the mem- 

 branaceous, often revolute margin, naked : sterile leaf difform. — Jjeali pinnate : veins costate, 

 pidrib of the segments excnrrent, 



153. S. sorbifolia, /. Sm. Scandent, prickly below; leaflets \4i-2i-jtigal, oblong- 

 lanceolate, poinUeted, cuneate at the base, serrulate, glabrous, chartaceous : rhachis mar- 

 gined : veins cxcurrent ; fertile leaflets linear, petiolalate : margin very narrow : veins free. - 

 — Flam. Fit. t. 117. — Acrostichum, L. Onoclea, Su>. lomaria, Kaulf. — 30'-40' high, 

 " clasping trees like a cable ;" leaf I'-l 4' long : most leaflets 2" long, 6"'-8"' broad, fertile 

 as long, 2'" broad.— Hab. Jamaica!, Pd.,AL; Montserrat, S. Vincent !, Guild.; fCuba! to 

 BrazU!]. 



154. S. longifolia, J. Sm. Unarmed ; leaflets 5-6-Jugal, oblong, rounded-pointleted, 

 cuneate at the base, serrulate-repand, glabrous, chartaceous : rhachis margined : veins ex- 



-Hab. Jamaica !, Wils. ; Dominica I, Imr. ; Trinidad I, Pd., on trees ; [French islands to 

 Guiana!]. 



155. S. japurensis, Gr. Unarmed; leaflets h-^-jugal, large, oblong, pointleted, 

 rounded-cmieate at the base, repand-entire, glabrous, chartaceous : veins excurreut into the 

 slightly thickened margin, most simple, few-forked; fertile leaflets long, linear, petiolulate : 

 maa-gin very nan-ow : veins connected by an intramarginal arch. — Mart. Crypt. Bras. t. 

 24 —Acrostichum, Mart. A. phlebodes, Kse. I in Fl. Kegel. (Lomariopsis, Fe'e).— Leaf 

 li'-3 long : leaflets 6"-4"long, 2"-14" broad, fertile 6" long, 4'" broad.— Hab. Trinidad I, 

 Fd., in woods, on trees, Arima ; [Guiana I, Brazil]. 



27. GYMNOPTERIS, Bemh. 



Sori covering the under side of the flat segments of a pinnatisect leaf, naked : sterile leaf 

 diflbrm. — Sterile leaf large, pinnatisect, orpinnatifld ; veinlets in a network, midrib of the 

 segments excurrent. 



■ 156. G. aliena, Fr. Leaf pinnatisect below, pimatifld at the deltoid summit, mem- 

 branaceous, glabrous: segments oblong-]anceo\aie, acuminate, inferior pinnatifid or coarsely 

 crenate-serrate, lobes and serraturea upward decrescent : vein-meshes with a simple (or no) 

 appendages ; fertile segments lanceolate, inferior often sinuate below, superior entire — 

 Plum. Fil. t. 10. Book. Gen. t. 85.— Acrostichum, Sw.—li'-Z' high ; lowest segments 

 6 -4 (-8 ) long, 2'-l" broad, shortly petiolulate : lowest inferior lobe exceeding the rest: 

 fertile segments 3"-l" long, 6"'-3"'(-8"') broad at the base. 



a. Lowest segments pinnatifid : most meshes with interior, simple appendages. 



3. Purdiai. Lowest segments crenate serrate : most meshes devoid of appendages. 



Hab Jamaica!, Pd., Wils. (0), in moist woods, S. James, Manchioneal; Trinidad I, 

 £oc/cA. [a). ; [Cuba ! and Mexico 1 to Ecuador I and Guiana !]. 



_ 157. a. uicotianifolia, Fr. leaf pinnatisect, chartaceous, glabrous: segments 2-4- 

 jugal, laj-ge, elliptical-oblong, pointleted, repand-entire, terminal elliptical : meshes between 

 the pmnate veins with branched appendages ; fertile segments oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, 



