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lu the early part of May, 1903, and aj^aiu during the latter part of Lhe same 

 month in 1904, the writer spent several days in the vicinity of iluunt Diablo, 

 on both occasions staying at Ilollymonnt (nltitnde about 750 meters) l)y kind 

 permission of the owner of this beanliful estate, AV. P. Pnrdon, Esq., of Kings- 

 ton. Among the extensive collections made there is a sc^ries of 'specimens 

 including tlie couneetiug forms between tlie extremes shown liy Sloane in tlu^ 

 two figures cited above; having legard for which there Is no alternative but 

 to combine all under a single name. This is the conclusion at which Jenman 

 arrived in liis later work, and hv published a good descriptitm of the speeies 

 in this broad sense in 189G under the name NephrodinHt serruhihfni Jenm. 

 {h c.)- Oddly enough, however, he yot made use of the Swartziau name 

 afipJrnioides for quite a foreign group of plants, describing** under the name 

 Neph radium asplcnioidoi Baker several dift'erinit forms, of which at least a part 

 are associable witli Dri/opfcris radicans (E.) Maxon of the present palmer ()). 

 400), Tliat Jenman sliould follow Raker in misapplying the name as-pletnoidoi 

 is ratlier remarkable, in view of his liaving examined Sloane's specimens in the 

 British Museum ^ and his having ^Irawn a proper- diagnosis of the species under 

 tlie name Nephrodium scrrnloinm Jonm. {h r.), wiuch description certainly 

 includes the original asplcnioidcs of Swartz, 



The reference of Polupodium UnumianiUH Reward to D. scrraJata is, from 

 description, doubtful. 



The true D. scnndata is apparently confined to Jamaica. The following 

 specimens, showing a very wide degree of variation, as described by JtMunan^ 



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are in the V. S, National Herbarium: 



Jamaica: Vicinity of ITollymoimt, Mount Diablo, altitude about THO meters, 

 Maxon 1878, 1890, 1893, 1908, 1923, 1925, 1952; Undencood 1S90. 

 Hartford and adjoining properties, near Priestmans Kiver, altitude 

 75 to 300 meters, Maxoii 2511. Vicinity of Mandcville, Ma,von 2571. 



Goniophlebium ampliatum Maxon, nom» noy, 



Poll/podium glfidiaium Kunze, Linna^a 9: 15. 1S34, not Veil. 1827. 

 It has been customary to refer P. gJadiaiiua Kunze, founded uiiou specina^ns 

 collected in the interior of Cuba by Poeppig, to Polnpodiuni (Qoftiophlebittmy 

 attcnuatinn IL & B,, 1810, the latter a rather uncommon species described 

 originally from plants collected in Venezuela and Brazil with mention of 

 Schkuhr's plate 14, representing Guiana specimens, '[lie Cuban plant, liow- 

 ever, seems to differ constantly in the shape of the pinuic, these very long 

 attenuate and falcate, narrowed at the base and even subpetiolate, the lower 

 and middle ones essentiaHy free and only the uppermost adnate or sliglitly 

 decurrent, and in the more numerous deeply impressed or pustulate sori com- 

 monly borne in four rows. The margins also are conspicuously undulate, 

 especially In the fertile fronds. The following specimens, which agree Avith a 

 portion of the type collection in the herbarnnn of the New^ York Botanical 

 Garden, show no more than a norma! amount of varintion. 

 Cuba: 



Province of Ortente : Near Monte Verde, Wrlijht SOI, Maxon 4301; 

 Santa Ana, miles nortli of Jaguey, Maxon 4133, 4207; vicinity of 

 Buracoa, Pollard, Palmer, cG Palmer 04. 



"Bulk Bot. Dept. Jamaica U. 3: 211, 212. 18!JG, 



^Tho Sloane specimens were reported on by JtMiman in 18SG (Journ. Bot. 24; 

 3(]). At that time he w^as iT]Clin(Hl to regard the two extreme forms as possibly 

 representing two distinct species; from this position he later receded, as stated. 



