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lletei'ophlebiura, Fée. Veins fre e below, anastomosing towards tlie margin
Sp. 44-45. T a b . I I I . f. Sl. c.
44. P . (Iletei’o.) lomariacea, K z e .; i« 0-12 in. 1., wiry, flexuose, dark chesnut-
brown, naked ; f r . deltoid, about 4 in. each way, witli a terminal linear lobe
longer, narrower, and more divided ; t e x t u r e subcoriaceoiiTi," both surfaces naked ;
v e i n s very inconspicuous, close, fine, anastomosing slightly tow'ards the margin ;
costæ dark-coloured and polished like the stipe ; i n v o l . ra th e r broad, membranous,
ultimately spreading.—Pellæa, Hk. Sp. 2. p . 133.
Hab. Gathered by Sir R. Schomburgk and Appun in British Guiana, and by Messrs.
Gardner and Lindberg in the South of Brazil. This resembles very closely P.palmata in
habit, but the venation is quite different. The veins are very close, and nearly parallel,
simple or once forked, and the branches of the same veins or of two contiguous ones
occasionally join near the edge. The three plants brought together under this name in
“ Species Pilicuiu ” must be separated, one to be placed near Pelloea geraniæfolia, ^nd
the other near P. palmata.
45. P. (Hetei'O.) grandifolia, Linn. ; st. 6-12 in. 1., erect, naked, straw-
coloured, clothed below with ru sty woolly scales ; f r . 1-2 ft. 1., simply pinnate ;
pin næ linear, erecto-patent, entire, sessile, or the lower ones stalked, the lower
ones 6-12 in. 1., j-1 in. br. ; texture coriaceous ; raehis and both surfaces naked ;
veins fine, less than J in. ap a rt a t the apex, anastomosing only in the outer third
of the space between the rachis and edge ; sori often continuous along the whole
length of the pinnæ.—H k . Sp. 2. p . 201. t. 113. B.
Hab. Tropical America, from Mexico and the West Indies southward to Peru.—P. vit-
tata, Schk., is a form with nearly free veins. Sir H. Barkly sends from Jamaica a form
with the pinnæ curiously sinuated, and some of them branched.
§§§§ Campteria, Presl. Veins all free,^ except that those o f the last divisions hut
one are more or less connected by arching veins at the very base. Sp. 46-50.
T ab. I I I . f. 31. g. a o p
46. P . (Camp.) b i a u r i t a , L. ; S t. 1-2 ft. 1., strong, erect, naked, straw-coloured ;
f r , with a terminal p i n n a 6-12 in. 1., lJ -2 in. br., cut down within from in.
of the racliis into numerous spreading linear-ohlong lohes on each side, whiclTare
1 in. or more 1., j in. or less br. ; l a t e r a l p i n n æ several on each side, similar to
the terminal one, the lower ones 2 in. ap a rt and usually once forked ; t e x t u r e
subcoriaceous ; r a c h i s and both surfaces naked ; v e i n s prominent, those of the
ult. segm. quite free, usua lly once forked, J in. ap a rt a t the base, b u t the midrib
of the segments connected hy au arching vein which passes from base to base :
s o r i continued to the apex.—H k . Sp. 2. p . 204.
Hab. West Tropical Africa, Mauritius, Bourbon, Hindostán (ascendinfr in the i
Hima-
layas to 4,000 ft.), Ceylon, Java, S. China, Malayan Peninsula, and Tropica
. - . - - . 7 J ------------- , --------------- Tropical America
from the West Indies southward to Brazil.—This differs only from P. quadriaurita in
the pmnæ being less deeply pinnatifid, and the bases of the midribs ofthe segments being
connected by an arching vein. This arch springs normally from the bases of the midribs,
but sometimes begins and ends at points between them. I t is sometimes triangular, but
sometimes very low, and in what Agardh considers as P. neinoralis, Willd., we have the
"v©nn»tion consifl©r©(!l p® /vTvqvo/*+at'ic'4i1 as characteristic« o«-fp hiaurita combined w -iftxhi, xthre- e ntirely fpree venation
considered as characteristic of quadriaurita iu one and the same frond, so that they
must be regarded as very doubtfully distinct. P. Galeotti, IHe ; P. amcena, Blume ;
P. ativvirens, Willd.; and P. armata, Presl, are apparently allied plants ; and C. Kleini-
ana, Presl, and C, AnamallayCTisis, Beddome, I cannot distinguish clearly.
b row n ; - " 4 Ihienv lo b e s o n e a c h s id e , w m c u a i c
in. hr., with several nanoNV of the base, the barren ones
suddenly on both sides within q i n i i l a r h u t l a r g e r , sometimes 18 in. 1.,
slightly serrated ; coriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces
2 in. br., tlie lowest foiked , ^ usua lly once-forked, 1 line apa rt at the
£ • ; ' ; a .
P.. ddeeccuussssaattaa,, J*/..
H ab . Ceylon, Borneo, P h ilip p in e s, Bociety I s la n d .- ^ ^ ^ ^ on
towards th e to p of th e frond, ^gtion of th e id e n tity oi Litobrochia Gard-
Thwaites is doubtless q u ite of th e base of th e often n e a rly opposite
t t - "
th e q u ad riau rita series.
48. P . (Camp.) triplicata, Ag- ; sL Strok'S’
9-12 in. br., the terminal P“ " " ; ”n ti£ o u s entire linear-oblong lobes
which
few ami
which are f in. 1., i in- and g j ^part) with a sta lk about 1 'n -£•>
distant (4 to 6 on each entire caudate point and two smaller
an apex like the terminal % ; rachis and both surfaces
S i , t « " ‘S i - — ■ - t o t t . w,.oi.
edge of the segments.—77/. Sp. 2. p . 205.
H ab . Mozambique ;
Madagascar.
g a th e red by F o rb e s , an d said by A g a rd h to bo also a p la n t of
49. P . (Camp.) M e lle fi Baker ; .« 6 -1 2 in. 1. firm erect "
f r . 18 i n . \ 9 in. br. the *“ ^ ^ 7 n L ^ margin, the lower
the the
apex sharply gid£; pinnæ numerous, the upper pair
p a rt with two lineai lo „ r fogg compoun^d
linear and aiiu scooxiv,sessile, ^ 3 in. 1., î , ' ^ ffon tfrg pmnules lin linear e a r e entire n u i c ,
; lobes
” , t o t o r i i h S r i t i M t o . h , . t t .
on petioles J m. or “ “ I®, j jfoear,bluntish, deeply serrated, the longest
not reaching down to the i"cm > „..gsent on one side of the pmna or pmnY,
/ S / r e fonmlimel ' p M sometimes not when the pinnai and pinnules are
no)tt ppiinn nn aa tiiifiiidu .;, r* a«-eGh/t-ti-so ia»nd both surfaces naked.
.0 . ... ( c ™ . ) « “ t o
pinnl. on each side, the laigest o Tinmevoiis contiguous linear-ohlong
i i t h i n about 1 lin. of the ' f .“ ¿ / « I ^ nearly as
inuous along nearly me wuuic ^
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