476 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THF NATIONAL ITERRAKIUM. 



Asplenium Balicifolium L, Sp, PL lOSO, 1753. 1'lati: LV. 



At ri. LV is shown a Cuban plant, wliieli is one of a series collected by the 

 writer at Monte Verde, Yateras, Trovinee of Oriente.'^ This will be seen to 

 agree closely with plate GO of riuniier, particularly in the following characters; 

 (1) The relative length of stipe and lamina; (2) the narrowly ovate frond, 

 only slightly reduced below and teruiinated by a lobed caudiform segment; (3) 

 the direction, position, and shape of the numerous pinna?, the number behig 

 nearly the same; (4) tlie type of marginal ereuatluii. In this last character 

 some slight allowance must be made for plale 00, as in the case of many others 

 of the Plumier figures; for tlie plant to be placeil under this name is really less 

 regularly and more deeply crenate, even bicrenate often towards the base of the 

 pinna\ The outer portions of the lower pinnte in plate GO are, however, 

 shown rather more correctly as obliquely serrate-erenate. It is hardly neces- 

 sary to add that the venation and sori shown in plate GO are ineorreet for auy 

 West Indian species known and will probably remain so. The plnnas too, are 

 rather closer than hi any plant seen by thc^ writer. Taking the plate as a 

 whole, nevertheless, it is evident tliat it is of the species shown at Pi. LV, and 

 nothing points to this more certainly than the shape of the apiCal portion. 



The specimen figured in plate 55 measures GO cm. in length; stipe 31 cm.; 

 lamhia 38 cm. long, 17 to IS cm. broad. The texture is subcoriaceous. 



The following additional specimens in the TT, S, IVational Herbarium may 

 be eited : 



Cuba; Farallones of La Perla, north of Jagu(^y, Yateras, province of 

 Oriente, altitude 540 to 585 meters, Maxon 437G. 



Haiti: Uavines northwest of Marmelade, altitude G03 meters, Jash cG Tay- 

 lor 135L 



Porto Rico: Barrauquitas, iiiiitcnis 2Gr)2b; Luquillo Mountains, ]\ Wil- 

 son 304. 



Jamaica: Without locality, Jcnmnn; without locality, ex herb, Boi, Dcpt. 



Jamaica, 



Dominica: Laudat, Lloyd 332. 



Grenada: Hurra}/ d EUioit 24. 



Mexico: District of Cordoba, State of Vera Cruz, FincJc 4Ga, 142. 



Colombia: Santa Marta, altitud*^ 750 meters, B\ JL Smith 2446. 

 Some of these specimens are submembranaceous in texture; and several have 

 the pinuai widely overlapping the raehis at their upper base, as shown by 

 Hooker,^ but without free auricles. The Jenman plant has the pinna? almost 

 hastate at the superior base. 



Wright's no. 848 from Cuba, cited by Hooker under A. aurlvulaluai, is 

 missing in the National Herbarium. In the Sauvalle herbarium at Havana, 

 Cuba, this number is AsplcnuDti ahscissutn Willd. ; and in the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden it is a mixture of A. ah,^cissu)n and a 

 reduced state of A. mlicifolltim, A sluH^t of no, S4S in the 1). C. Eaton Her- 

 barium, marked as comint^ from "La Perla, in crevices of rocks,'* comprises 

 three plants, viz.: (1) Asi)h'niutn ahscissum WiiUL, (2) A, salicifoUinn {rrnun), 

 and (3) the reduced form here included untler A, mUcifoJlum. Matchln-,- this 

 uiferior state are two Cuban numbers collected by the writer, viz., 4311 which 

 grew with 430<J, and 4375 witli 437G, These and certain other specimens from 

 the West Indies and especially from Central Amei-ica would probably pass 



<>Ko. 430G, from humus and well-rotted logs in the humid forest, altitude 

 about 575 meters, April 30, 1907. 

 *Sp, Fil. 3: pU 111. 



