Flora of the British West Indian Islands / by A.H.R. Grisebach.

  • August Grisebach
Date:
1864
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Credit: Flora of the British West Indian Islands / by A.H.R. Grisebach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    313. P. serpens, aw. ! Leaf charlaceous, glabrous, undalate-repand, lanceolate, or linear, tapering into the short petiole: larger meshes sub-1-serial; sort 1-serial, terminal on a simple appendage or at its anastomosis with a recurrent veinlet. —/-Viwz. Fit. 1. 121.— Rhizome long, scaudent along trees and shrubs: its rusty scales spreading; leaf 6-2(-8) long, 2'-6'(-8') broad : petiole long.—Hab. Jamaica!, Stv.j [Cuba! to French islands]. 314. P. lycopodioides, L. Leaf charlaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceo- late, tapering into the short petiole : meshes sub-3-serial, second series larger; sori 1-serial, equidistant from the midrib and margin, inserted at the anastomosis of several ascending and recurrent veinlets.—Plum. Fil. t. 119.—Leaf 8-3 long, l|-6'' broad.—11ab. Ja- maica !, Bancr.; Dominica !, Imr. ; [French islands !, Sieb. Mart. 244 ; Mexico ! to Uru- guay !; trop. Africa!]. 315. P. elongatnm, Melten. Leaf coriaceous, variegated with scattered, minute oppressed, roundish scales, linear-lanceolate, narrowly tapering into the sub sessile base: “larger meshes 1-serial;1’ sori 1-serial, oval, or oval-oblong, at length confluent, “inserted at the anastomosis of 2 ascending appendages,” parallel to the midrib.—Schk. Crypt, t. 7. fg. inf. sin.: the state with partially confluent sori.—Metien. Polypod. t. 2. /. 8. 9. : the veins.—Grammitis, Sw. G. lanceolata, Schk.—Leaf 7-2 long, 4'-2' broad.—Hab. Jamaica 1, Macf.; Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent!, Guild.; [Cuba 1 to French islands 1, Sieb. Mart. 348 ; Mexico 1 to Brazil!]. 316. P. lanceoiatum, L. Leaf coriaceous, variegated beneath with scattered, minute roundish scales, lanceolate, tapering into a slender petiole: larger meshes 1-serial; sori 1-serial, large, roundish, “inserted at the anastomosis of 2 ascending appendages.”—Plum. Fil. t. 138. Metien. Poly pod. t.'i.f. 16 : the veins.—P. lepidotmn, W.—Leaf 8-4(-3) long, 12'-6,(-3') broad : petiole 3(-l|) long; sori 4'-2' diam.—Hab. Jamaica 1, Pd., common, on dry rocks ; [Mexico! to Brazil!; Juan Fernandez, S. Helena!, trop. Africa ! to the Cape! and Bourbon !]. ** Sori scattered, or in several series. 317. P. angustifolium, Sw. Leaf coriaceous, glabrous, narrowly linear-lanceolate, long-laperina into the rielio/e, involute at the margin : meshes 2-3-serial: sori 2-3-serial, at or below the end of simple, ascending appendages.—Melten. Fil. Lips. A 24./. 6. a. b.— P. tEeniosum, II ., Melten J,L'at. P. vexatum, Eat. 17 {Campy loneurum cubense, Fee).—Leaf 2'-i' long, 10'-3' broad.—Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., on dry banks and trees : [Cuba! and Mexico ! to Brazil! and Peru!] Ol allied species, pi oLably occurring in Jamaica, I distinguish P. fasciale, W. (Cuba, PI. Wright. 1020) by broader, chartaceous leaves with the repand margin flat; and P. ensifo- limn, W. (Kl. in PI. Sello.!; P. solutum, Kl. in Kze. Farukr. t. 117. 2 ; P. angustifolium, Lai. PI. PendL 224) by 1-serial sori, and linear leaves tapering into a subsessile base. § 2. Vi ins straight, costate : sori on appendages of the anastomosing veinlets (Cyrtopldebiuin, R. Br., or Campyloueuron, Pr.), or at the point of anion of a compound anastomosis (Anaxetum. Schott, or Pleuridium, Pr.). 318. P. Phyllitidis, L. Leaf rigid-cliartaccous, glabrous, lanceolate-oblong, or oblong- linear, repand, long-tapering into the petiolcd or subsessile base : veinlets arched-transverse, forming 2-1 meshes; sori 2{-i)-serial between the straight veins, inserted below the end of simple, ascending appendages.—Variable, but the forms, often confounded, present no cer- tain characters. Leaf 3'— V long. a. Swartzianwn. Leaf lanceolate-oblong, bluntish (or acute), 3-'2}f{-2) broad.— Plum. Fil. t. 130: an unusually narrow-leaved form; A 131 {P. com os urn, L.) : a mon- strosity of it. Metien. Fit. Lips. t. 24./. 1. 2.—P. Phyllitidis, Sw., Kze. {PL Kappl. 1386). P. repens, Melten. (non Sw.) Eat. PL Wr. 1021. Campyloueuron Moritzianum, Fee. fi. repens, Sw. Leaf oblong-linear, acuminate with a narrow point, 2-l )(l-2£) broad: petiole usually longer.— Plum. Fit. t. 134: an unusually broad-leaved form. Mel- ten. Fil. Lips. t. 24./. 4. 5.—P. Phyllitidis, Sieb. Marl. 243, Melten. in PI. Rugel. Cub., Kze. in PI. Kegel.ii>8. P. ceespitosutn, Lk.l P. chrysonodon, KL! IIab. Jamaica!, Macf., Bancr.; S. Vincent!, Guild.; [Cuba! and Mexico!, to Brazil!]. o