36 PROF. M. W. nARBIKGTON OK TROPICAL FERKS 



AsPLEKiuM TRiPHTLLiJM, PvesL ^ Near Q 



A small form from the Peruvian Andes between Motucana anc 

 Pucara. 



A. cicuTARiUM, Sioartz. Peru ; Ecuador. 



A. FiLix-F(EMiNA, Bernh, Peru. 



A. ACULEATTJM, 8w. PcrU. 



Nephrodium coxciknum, BaTcer, Peru ; Ecuador. 



N. FiLix-MAS, Bich. Peru. 



N. EEEUSUM, Baker, Peru. 



PoLTPoniTTM DELiCATULUM, M. Sf O. Peru ; Ecuador. 



P. PLUMULA, H. B. K. Peru. 



P. PLEBEiUM, ScTileclit, Ecuador. 



P. MURORUM, HooTcer, Ecuador. 



P. PiLOSELLoiDES, i., var. ft, H. Sf B. Caviana, Brazil. 



Same, var. y, H, ^ B, Peru. 



P. L0RICETJM5 Z. Ecuador. 



P. ATTENUATTJM, -ET. -S. ^. Cairaua, Brazil. 



P. ADNATUM, Kunze, Cairana, Brazil. 



P. ERAXIKIFOLIUM, Jacq, Pcru. 



p. SQUAMATTJM, Z. PerU. 



p. ixcANL'MjvSzi?. Cairana, Brazil; Peru. 



261*. P. (Goniophlebium) xantholepis, Harrington^ n. sp. 



Khizome witli dense, lanceolate, brown scales ; stipe 2-5 inches 

 high, black, with distant, membranous, brown scales, wiry, usually 

 with the frond more or less spirally coiled ; frond 2-5 in. long, 

 -I5 in. broad, long, triangular to lanceolate, cut nearly to the 

 rachis into spreading, subdistant pinnse, |-| in. long, linear, 

 entire, obtuse ; midrib broad, green ; texture coriaceous ; under 

 surface thickly clothed with large, brown, lanceolate, membranous 

 scales, naked above ; sori large, uniserial. 



Oroya, between San Bartolomeo and San Mateo, Peru. 



Tery near P. incanum, Swartz, but lacking entirely the lepidote 

 character and silvery aspect of that species. It is also somewhat 

 larger than the P, incanum. 



P. aureum, i. Cairana, Brazil. 



P. AKOirsTT FOLIUM, 8w. Near Quito. 



P. SPHENODES, Kunze. Peru. 



P. L^viGATUM, Cavan. Cairana, Brazil. 



, var. EiGiDUir, Harrington^ n. var, Eio tJtcubamba, 



Peru.. 

 Texture rigid ; venation entirely goniophlebioid. 



