Pteris] FiLiCES (Cari-uthers). 269 



PuNGO Andonoo. — In shady woods of Barranco de Songare ; without 

 fr. May 1857. No. 140. 



8. P. spinulifera Schum. Vid. Sel. Phys. Kjob. iv. p. 233 (1829). 



St. Thojias.— In shady forests around Monte CafEi^, 2500 ft. ; in 

 fr. Dec. 18G0. No. 53. 



GoLUxao Alto. — Beside rivers in the woods of Barranco do Sangue ; 

 in fr. April 1855. No. 141. 



11. CERATOPTERIS Brongn.Bull. Soo. Phil. 1821 p. 186 (1821). 

 C. thalictroides Brongn., I.e. 



ICOLO E Bengo. — In marshy places at the margin of the lake 

 called Lagoa de Quilunda, near Prata ; 14 Sept. 1854. No. 82. 



12. LOMARIA Willd. in Ges. Nat. Fr. Mag. iii. p. 160 (1809). 

 L. Boryana Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 292 (1810). 



Blechnum tabulare Kuhn, Fil. Afr. p. 94. 



HuiLLA. — In mountainous districts near the banks of rivulets ; 

 April 1860. No. 203. 



13. ASPLENIUM Linn. Gen. PI. p. 322 (1737). 



1. A. sinuatum Beauv. Fl. d'Oware, ii. p. 33, PI. 69 (1807). 

 Peince's Island. — Sept. 1853. No. 24 in part. 



Var. Fronds narrow, veins oblique, sori not reaching midrib 

 or margin. 



Prince's Island. — On trunks of trees in very shaded places of the 

 Pico de Papagaio, somewhat rare ; Sept. 1853. No. 24, in part. 



St. Thomas. — On old trunks in the densest woods ; sparsely fruiting 

 Dec. 1860. No. 64. 



2. A. longicauda Hook. Second Cent. Ferns, tab 69 (1861). 

 St. Thomas. — Frequent in shady woods, about 1800 ft. high. In 



fr. Dec. 1860. No. 63. 



3. A. emarginatum Beauv. Fl. d'Oware ii. p. 6, PI. 61 (1807). 

 GrOLUNGO Alto. — lu the dense natural woods of Oaculungula, Sobato 



de Quilombo Quiacatubia. Fruiting specimens very rare. Jan. 1855. 

 No. 98. Specimens also from Bembe, Congo, collected by Monteiro, 

 1858, in Herb. Welw. 



4. A. angolense Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 485 (1874). 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the shady natural woods of Matade Quibanga 

 near Sange ; Aug. 1855. No. 96- 



5. A. Geppii Carruth. 



Welwitsch, as Mr. Gepp pointed out to me, gave a trivial name to 

 this species which had already been used. 



Stipes tufted, 3 to 6 in. long, clothed when young with 

 lanceolate acuminate caducous scales, erect, pale-coloured ; frond 

 4 to 15 in. long, 2 to 6 in. broad, with 5 to 10 pinnae on each side, 

 which are 1 to 3^ in. long, and f to | in. broad, stalked, apex 

 acuminate, cuneate at the base, the lower half more oblique, the 

 two sides of the pinna nearly equal, margin crenate or bluntly 

 serrate, terminal pinna somewhat larger than the others ; veins 

 bifurcate except towards the apex of the pinna ; sori and indusium 

 linear, not reaching the margin. 



