480 CONTRIBUTIONS FE0:M the national IIEEBARTUM. 



Guatemala : Paiisaniala, Alta Verapaz, altitude 1140 meters, ran Tlirclhcim 

 (John Doimell Smith (130);'^ near the Finca Sopaenite, Alta Verapaz, 

 Cook d Griggs 58; wet forest floor hotwoen Popucnite antl Sec^auquiui, 

 Alta Yerupaz, altitude 1,000 meters, Maxon cP Tlajj ^203. 

 Costa Rica; without locality, Wercldc (det Christ). 



Brazil: Caldas, province of Minas Geraes, Mosen 2111 (two sheets; also in 

 G) ; near Kio Janeiro, Wilkrs expedition, as -1* saJicifolinm; without 

 definite locality, Gloziou 1771 (listeil by Fee ^ as A, salicifoUffm), 

 A second specimen from Costa Itica (Suerre, Llanuras de Santa Clara, alti- 

 tude 300 meters. Joint DonnvJl Smith GSS5) is exactly intermediate between the 

 two types. The Jlosen si)ecimens are the most extreme of all. Hooker's notes 

 will be found of interest. 



Aspleniurrt oligophyllum Kaulf. Enum. Fih lOG. 1S24. 



A single specimen under cover of A, saVivifolinm, in the Gray Herbarium, 

 F'endler's no. 320, from Tovar, Venezuela, accords well with Kaulfnss' descrip- 

 tion of .1, oligophyUuni, and this number is so referred by Hooker in his de- 

 scription of the si)ocies. The mar;,niis are correctly said to be "obscurely ere- 

 nate-serrate." The broad ]>uinpe and numerous sori are characteristic. 



Two Brazilian species, Asplenium VHcrugnoUvi Fee ^ and A. caitiptocarpum 

 Ffe,'^ referred here by Christensen, ai)pear from Fee's excellent illustrations 

 entitled to recognition, Tlio former especially seems very different and to be 

 allied rather to the Colombian A, ocanicnsc Karst.,^ known to the writer from 

 a specimen collected by II. l*ittier (no. 70S) in the western Cordillera, State of 

 Cauca, Colombia, December, 1905. 



Asplenium neogranatense Fee, 7nn^ Mem. 47. ph 7 }. /. /. 1S54. 



A species with a few entire pinn.T, figured by Fee, witli no mention of the 

 characters offered by rhizome and chaff. Appnrently in its few sori a near ally 

 of .4, intcgcrrinnnn Spren^., but quite remarkable, as noted by Fee, in the great 

 length of the veins which are borne at a very acute au^^le to the midvein. 



Asplenium austrobrasiliense (Christ) Maxon. 



Asplenium salicifoUHni mi.'ifrohrasUicnsc Christ, Denksehr. K. Akad. AViss. 

 AVien. Matli.-naturw. Klasse 79: 23. pi 'k /, U 2. ph S, /. 3, //. lOOG, 



A peculiar form, well illustrated l>y Dr. Christ and supposed by him to I)e 

 common in sonthern Brazil. It has no near alliance with tlie true ,*ialieifoliifm, 

 but is apparently allied to A. oUgophyUum. From this it is easily distinct, 

 <)l)vious]y in its more numerous, smaller, and gradually reduced upper pinna? 

 which give rise to an enlarged ternunal segment (instead of a conform termi- 

 nal pinna), in its fewer more spaced sori, and especially in its bipinnatifid 

 form with corresponding modification in position of sori indicated by Dr. 



Christ. 



The original material has not been seen by the writer, to whom it is known 

 only from specimens recently sent by Dr. Kosenstock under no. 206, these from 

 the Serra do Mar, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



The form from Apiahy listed by Dr. Christ as true snlicifolium is, judging 

 from description, referable to A. oligophyUum Kaulf. 



^ First determined as Asplenium- aurlcuhitam S\v., subsequently as A, 

 cultrifoJlum L. 



^ Crypt. Vase. Bres. 1 : G4. 1S60. 



^ Crypt Vase. Bres. 1: 62. pi. 15, 1.SiUi. 



^ Crypt. Vase. Bres. 1: 63. pJ, 16, f, /. 1869. 



^Fl. CoL 1: 173. pi SO. ISOl. 



