OF THE GENUS DANAEA 671 
Ee 1. Danara noposa (L.) Sm. Act. Taur, § 2420-94. 9.0 f. 17 
E Acrostichum nodosum L.. Sp. Pl. 1070. 1753. (Type from 
Martinique and Santo Domingo, Plumier, pl. 108.) 
Danaea longifolia Desv. Berl. Mag. 5: 307. 1811; Sturm, 
Fl. Bras. 2': 157. pl. rz. 18509. 
A stout coarse plant with long broad pinnae and no nodes to 
the stem. Stipes strong, 40-60 cm. long, erect, covered with fine 
furfuraceous scales ; sterile leaves with 6 to 12 pairs of pinnae, 
which are 16-30 cm. or more long, 3-8 cm. wide, stalked and 
obtuse at the base, abruptly narrowed and acuminate at the apex ; 
veins free or forked near the base, close, the intercostal spaces 
13-15 to I cm.; sporophylls with 8-10 pairs of pinnae which are 
14-18 cm. long, 1.5—2 cm. wide, obtuse at base, acuminate at apex. 
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Moist woods, West Indies generally and Mexico to Brazil. 
The rachis is darkened and nodular at the insertion of the pinnae but 
below the laminathe stem is free from nodes. A sub-species § 
angustifolia, Moore, Ind. Fil. 287. 1861 (Danaea angustifolia Presl, 
Suppl. Tent. Pterid. 35. 1845) will require more field study to dis- 
tinguish more clearly. 
North American specimens have been seen as follows : 
: Cusa: La Guinea, Wright, 7815, KECN ;* Monte Verde, 
_ Wright, 924, CEKN. 
Puerto Rico: Sintenis, 2596, K; ibid., 1757, N. 
SANTO Dominco : Eggers, 2737, K; [ Plumier]. 
) Jamaica: 1344, Purdie, KE; 1884-5, Balch, C; Jenman, 92, 
K; Clute, 270a, U. . 
Martinioue: Husnot, 259, K [Plumier]. 
GuapELoupr: L’ Hermmicr, 215, KE; Mazé, 64, K. 
Dominica: Eggers, 963 K. 
ST. VINCENT : Guilding, K; Smith, 1129, c; 
_. Grenapa: Sherring, KC. 
Trintpap: Fendler, 129, CKEUN. 
Panama: Cuming, 1125, K. 
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‘ * As noted in a previous paper of this series these letters refer to the herbaria in 
ich the specimens noted have been seen. B= Berlin ; C = Columbia University 
nd New York Botanical Garden herbarium, now incorporated together ; Co —= Cosson 
herbarium at Paris; E—D,C. Eaton’s herbarium, New Haven, Conn.; G= Gray 
- -arium, Cambridge, Mass,; K = Kew herbarium ; N —National herbarium, Wash- 
ington, D. C., and U = the author's private herbarium. 
