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CATALOGUE OE PERNS. 
1. EL cordata ? Foxb. ; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 64. H. sa- 
gittata, Fee . — East Indies. 
2. EX. palmata, Linn.; Flum . Fil. t. 151; HooJc. Fx. FI. t . 
33 ; Schott, Gen. Fil. t. 9. — West Indies. 
3. IX. pedata, Sw. Syn. Fil. t. l.f. 3. Gymnogramme pedata, 
Kaulf \ — Mexico. 
28. GONIOPTERIS, Presl. 
(Polypodii sp., Auct.) 
Vernation fasciculate, erect or decumbent. Fronds pinnatifid 
or pinnate, rarely simple, 1-4 feet high. Primary veins costse- 
form, pinnate ; venules opposite, the whole or only the lower 
pair, or more angularly anastomosing, producing from their junc- 
tion an excurrent sterile veinlet, which is either free or anasto- 
moses in the angle next above it. Sporangia pilose in some 
species, produced between the base and angular junction of the 
venules. Sori round, oblique, biserial. 
1. G. scolopendroides, Presl. Polypodium scolopendroides, 
Sw. ; Plum. Fil. t. 91. Goniopteris subpinnata, Hort . — 
Jamaica. 
2. G. reptans, Presl. Polypodium reptans, Sw. ; Sloane's 
Jam. 2. t. 30. Polypodium compositum, Link. — Jamaica. 
3. G. asplenoides, Presl. Polypodium asplenoides, Sw . — 
Jamaica. 
4. G. crenata, Presl; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 38. Polypodium 
crenatum, Sw. ; Plum. Fil. t. 3. — West Indies. 
5. G. megalodes, Presl. Polypodium megalodes, SchJc. Fil. 
t. 19 6. — West Indies. 
6. G. tetragona, Presl. Polypodium tetragonum, Sw. ; SchJc. 
Fil. t. 18,6. — West Indies. 
7. G. serrulata, J. Sm. Polypodium serrulatum, Sw. ; Presl; 
Sloane's Jam. t. 43. f. 1. — Jamaica. 
8. G. refracta, J. Sm. Polypodium refractum, Fisch. et Meyer. 
■ — Brazil. 
