COLLECTION OF CUBAN PTERIDOPHYTA 583 
of Cuba.”” The specimens of the present collection (no. 117) are 
much larger than the original, or indeed than the other specimens 
we have seen, which are: (1) Matanzas, Cuba, 1849, Rugel, 9 
(C); (2) Eastern Cuba, 1856-1857, Wright, 856 (Y). Except in 
size the plants (117) agree well with the original description and 
plate. 
Diplazium aemulum sp. nov. 
Plant 40~6o0 cm. high. Leaves borne ina close crown on a 
rather slight erect rootstock : stipes 1-2 dm., sparingly paleaceous 
below with firm dark brownish linear or linear-lanceolate long at- 
tenuate scales: large mature lamina broadly lanceolate, broadest 
just below the middle, dark green, paler beneath, comprising 20 
or less pairs of lanceolate pinnae, the lowermost of which diverge 
from the rachis at an angle of about 70°, the uppermost at from 
45° to 60° : pinnae spreading, subopposite below, soon becoming 
alternate above, the largest 1 dm. long by 1.7 cm. wide, lanceo- 
late, terminating rather abruptly in a serrulate attenuate somewhat 
falcate apex, the base cuneate (the lower edge much more ob- 
liquely so than the upper), the margin pinnatifid into shallow ob- 
tusish lobes (about 12), which are regularly serrate by the free 
Fepeatedly forking veinlets extending to the margin ; sori linear, 
curved, averaging 5 mm., borne on the first anterior of each group 
of veinlets ; indusia both single and double, the former perhaps 
Predominating. 
Type specimen, no. 403220 in the U. S. National herbarium 
Collected on the « slopes and summit of El Yunque, near Baracoa, 
Santiago province, Cuba, January 30-31, 1902, by Charles L. 
Pollard and William Palmer ; no. 179, altitude 1000-2000 feet.” 
We would also refer here no. 1 59, same data. 
The type sheet consists of a rather small plant about 4 dm. 
high and a single detached fully matured leaf measuring about 6 
dm. The latter is larger than most of the specimens distributed, 
So that the measurements here given probably represent nearly 
the Maximum for the species. The shallow lobation so character- 
istic of the larger pinnae is manifest in the smaller ones in less 
degree and commonly only as an irregular double serration. 
Drvopreris LoncHopes (D. C. Eaton) Kuntze 
___ Aspidium lonchodes D. C. Eaton, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 210. 
1863, 
