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5. GONIOPHLEBIUM HIRSUTISSIMUM. 



Poly-podium hirsutissimum, Raddi, Plant. Brazil, p. 17, t. 26; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. 



Voy. p. 356. 

 P. sepultum, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 104. 

 Acrostichum Lepidopteris, Langsd. & Fisch. Ic. Fil. p. 5, t. 2; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, 



p. 113. 



§ 3. GONIOPHLEBIUM verum, J. Sm. 



6. GONIOPHLEBIUM ENSIFOLIUM. 



Polypodium ensifolium, Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 152? 



Hab. Banos, Andes of Peru : on rocks. 



This species has a creeping rootstock, about the thickness of a 

 crowquill, densely imbricated with brown, oblong, reticulated scales. 

 Fronds few, from 4 to 6 inches long, coriaceous, entire, linear-ensiform 

 and attenuate, with an entire revolute margin. Sori small, round, 

 solitary, and equidistant between the costa and margin. 



7. GONIOPHLEBIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. 



G. rhizomate repente ; frondibus rigidis longe lineari-lanceolatis basi at- 

 tenuatis supra nitidis vnarginibus revolutis; soris solitariis vel sub- 

 biserialibus. 



Polypodium angusti/olium, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 27 ; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 153 ; Raddi, 

 Plant. Brasil. p. 14, t. 24, f. 2. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



Eootstock creeping, nearly as thick as a goosequill, and covered 

 with brown, oblong, acuminate, reticulated paleae. Fronds rigid, 

 approximate, on a short and compressed, margined stipe, narrowly 



