i888.] 



HOTANICAT. GAZETTE. 



77- 



and broad ; endocarp shining-white, callose, delicately retic- 

 ulated. — Pansamala forest, alt. 3,800 feet, Sept., 1886, 

 April, 1887. (Ex Pl. cit. 751.) — Freiherr von Turckheim's. 

 numerous specimens, representing all stagesof growth, show 

 no tendency toward lobing of leaves. The originals of Dr, 

 Watson's description, sparingly collectedby him in the tierra 

 caliente^ are somewhat less robust plants, and the leaves have 

 a more distinctly continuous intermarginal vein ; the flowers^ 

 w^ere not described, and in the specimens seen are insufficient 

 for examination. 



Asplenium Yera-pax. (§ Difh 



Stipes tufted from a 



short rhizome with a few black scales toward base, 18 inches 

 long: fronds subcoriaceous, glabrous, pale beneath,punctate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, 12 inches long, lower half pinnate, the up- 

 per cleft or lobed and tapering to an elongated serrate apex : 

 rhachis sulcate on face, angled by decurrent pinnce, bearing 

 in their axils a gemmule covered with minute scales : pinnae 



7-8 



a side, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, dis- 



tantly serrulate, base truncate on upper side and reduced on 

 lower; basal pair stalked, produced, 4^ inches long, i inch 

 broad : others a third to a half smaller, adnate, confluent 

 above ; veins single, erecto-patent, mostly 1-3-branched, the 

 lowest anterior veinlet soriferous : sori 15-23 to a side, 6-8 

 lines long, falling short of both midrib and margin, dipla- 

 zioid chiefly below middle of pinnse. (Phite 11.) — Pansamala 



Pl. cit. 850.) 

 Baltimore 



000 



(Ex 



