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quite free venation, more oblong-lanceolate shape of frond, and more 

 numerous differently shaped pinnae. Plum. Kil. t. 157 quoted by 

 Grisebach does not agree with his description or with the Erasilian 

 plant while it corresponds entirely in shape of frond and pinnae with 

 p h(/ nitidis e^cei^tth.a,t, as previously mentioned, the veins are shown as free. 



6. A. Breutelianaj Presl — Stipites tufted from a small upright 

 rootstock, slender, slightly tomentose light coloured, 3-6 in. 1. ; fronds : 

 barren division or sessile, oblong-lanceolate, broadest at the base, pin- 

 nate, 2^-6 in. 1. in w. the rachis slender, pale brown, tomentose- 

 fibrillose ; pinnae b-10 to a side, with their own width or more between 

 them, spreading obliquely, cuneate at the base, the point subacute or 

 bluntish, |-1-J in. 1. 2-6 li. b., the upper ones entire, the lower with 

 one or two incisions on one or both sides ; thin and papyraceous, pellu- 

 cid, gray-green, more or less ciliate, margins finely serrated ; veins 

 very close and oblique, forked, no distinct midrib only at the base of 

 the larger pinnae panicles two, ^ or f as long as their slender stipites 

 shortly branched and linear. — A, tnandiocana, Hook. Glen. Fil. t. 90. 



Infrequent on rocks and wayside banks from 1,0 UO - 3,000 ft. altitude 

 or higher. It has somewhat the aspect of a weaker state of hirta, with 

 the lower pinnae somewhat incised. The pinnae however are less pointed, 

 rather more numerous, and more gradually decrescent from the base to 

 the pionatifid apex than in that species. The veins casually unite. 



7. A filiformiSy Presl. — Kootstock short densely rusty-tomentose sti- 

 pites tufted, J - 1 in. 1., rusty-tomentose, fronds : barren division sessile, 

 1^ - 4 or 5 in. 1., \ - over 1 in. b., simply pinnate ; pinna3 with once or 

 twice tlieir own width between them, 1^-3 li. w., j - f in. 1., sessile 

 and cuneate at the base, rounded and slightly broadened at the apex, 

 firm, rachis and general surfaces especially the under sides rusty-tomen- 

 tose ; margins irregularly toothed or incised ; veins fine, close, forked, 

 spreading, no distiuct midrib ; panicle single, on a slender stem as long as 

 the sterile division, which it overtops by 1 - 3 in. — A. humilis, bwartz. 



This was gathered by Purdie, but no locality is marked with his spe- 

 cimens whicn are in the Kew iierbarium. It is nearest in relation to 

 hirsuta, from which it may be at once known by the single fertile divi- 

 sion and the very short stipites. 



8. A. hirsuta, Swartz. iiootstock small, fibrous, densely clothed with 

 pale brown tomentum ; stipites tufted, slender, erect, stramineous, very 

 slightly scaly, 2-6 or 10 in. 1.; fronds : barren divisions sessile, oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, lJ-4 in. 1. f-lj or 2 in. w., broadest at the base, 

 and bipinnatifid, decrescent to the apex, rachis straw coloured, slender, 

 scaly; pinnso spreading, apart, -Jrd 1 in. 1. 2-6 li. w. 5-1 to a side, 

 sessile, toothed at the rounded point, both sides deeply cut into narrow 

 segments, which also are toothed on their blunt outer edge, papyraceous, 

 pellucid, gray-green, striated, finely scaly j veins fine, close, forked 

 spreading no distinct midrib, panicles two, compact J -IJ in. 1. oblong or 

 linear oblong, on long slender petioles which considerably over-tops the 

 leaf.— PI. Fil. t. 162. SI. Hist. t. 25. f. 6. Herb. 39. A. dissecta, Presl. 



Abundant, on rocks and banks from the lowlands up to 5,00u ft. alti- 

 tude. This is probably the commoneft species. It is well marked by 

 its Jong petioles, small much dissected fronds and short considerably 

 eleAJatti spikes small specimens are much less cut than the larger ones. 



^. A» adianti/olia, S^artz.-*ilootstock slender*, cieeping dai'ttomeii' 



