582 UNDERWOOD AND MAxon: NOTES ON A 
once or twice cleft below, otherwise similar to the pinnae ; pinnae 
5-7 pairs, linear, subcoriaceous, subopposite below, alternate 
above, ordinarily diverging from the axis at anangle of about 30°, 
the 3 or 4 lowermost pairs 11-15 cm. long and 7~—11 mm. broad (at 
the broadest point, which is about one third the distance from base 
toward apex); base of pinna narrowly and very obliquely cuneate 
(becoming stipitate), apparently never auricled, the superior por- 
tion only a trifle wider than the inferior ; margin unequally biser- 
rate (in large fronds occasionlly triserrate), the teeth rather 
slender, aute and outwardly curved; veins very oblique, forking 
usually once; sori I1-2.7 cm. long, borne on the anterior branch 
and nearly parallel to the midvein ; indusium firm. 
The above description is drawn from two sheets, nos. 403185 
and 403298 in the U. S. National herbarium, representing no. 
139 collected by Charles L. Pollard and Wm. Palmer on “ slopes 
and summit of El Yunque, near Baracoa, Santiago province, 
Cuba. Alt. 1000-2000 feet, January 30-31, 1902. “ The spe- 
cies seems to us very distinct; certainly it has nothing to do 
with Asplenium erosum L.,* with it has, in one instance, been 
confused, — we refer to the reference here of Wright’s no. 1043 4 
“var. pinnis angustissimis.’ + Wright’s no. 1043 as represented 
in the National herbarium (sheet no. 26435) is exactly our plant, 
though the fronds bear an additional pair or two of pinnae. Re- 
ference to Sloane’s plate 33, fig. 2, cited by Linnaeus under A. 
erosum, is sufficient to disprove any supposed alliance with the 
plants there represented. 
Asplenium venustum is easily distinguished by the extreme 
narrowness of the pinnae, their peculiar hacked appearance on a¢- 
count of the acute flaring teeth, and by their extremely oblique 
gradually narrowed bases. Sheet no. 403185 bears a typical 
plant 3.8 dm. high, comprising 10 overlapping fronds. Sheet no. 
403298 contains a juvenile plant and a single detached frond 6.7 
dm. high. 
AsPLENIUM MONTEVERDENSE Hooker 
This rare species was described in Species Filicum, 3: 195° 
1860 and figured in Hooker’s 2d Century of Ferns, p/. 4/- 1861. 
It was founded on C. Wright’s no. 1029 collected, in 1859 
“under overhanging rocks near Monte Verde, on the eastern side 
* Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2: 1539. 1764. See ee 
7 Sauvalle, Fl. Cubana, 211. 1878. 
