672 UnpbEerRwoop: A REVIEW 
2. DANAEA POLYMORPHA Leprieur; Baker, Annals Bot. 5: 499. 
1891; New Ferns, 116. 1892 
Stipes of sterile leaves with one or two nodes, bearing 3—4 pairs 
of pinnae and an enlarged terminal one, the lowest pair scarcely 
half as large as the upper; terminal pinnae 15-20 cm. long, 5-6 
cm. wide, abruptly acute at base, rounded at the apex and abruptly 
acuminate ; upper pinnae 10~12 cm. long, 4 cm. or more wide, 
broadest above the middle, obovate, rounded and abruptly acumi- 
nate at the apex ; lowest pinnae similar but smaller, 7-9 cm. long, 
3 cm. or less wide ; all the pinnae distinctly stalked ; veins forked, 
about I mm. apart above the furcation ; stipe of sporophylls up to 
45 cm. long, with one or two nodes, and bearing 3—5 pairs of 
pinnae and a larger terminal one which is 12-13 cm. long and 
about 3 cm. wide; stalk of terminal pinna about 3.5 cm. long, of 
the lateral 5-8 mm. 
GuaveELoure : Mazé, 483, 1028 (type), K. 
Although Baker’s description was based on Mazé’s plants in the 
Kew herbarium there are plants in the Cosson herbarium collected 
and named by Leprieur himself from Guiana. These are mostly 
smaller and have fewer pinnae than the Kew material. 
3. Danaga ELtiprica Sm.; Rees’ Cyclopedia, 11 : —(82). 1819: 
(Type from Jamaica, Sloane, p/. gz. f. 7) 
A low coarse plant with 7—9 wide elliptic pinnae and nodose 
stems. Rootstock long, creeping ; stipes 15-35 cm. long, more OF 
less furfuraceous, usually with two distinct nodes ; lamina of sterile 
leaf with 7~9 pinnae which are 12-15 cm. or more long, 3-4 sae 
wide, acute at base and terminate in a slender acuminate ape*; 
veins mostly forked near the base, the intercostal spaces about 10 
to 1 cm.; laminae of sporophylls with g—13 pinnae which are 6- 
cm. long, 2 cm. or less wide, acute at base and tapering at ape*» 
synangia oblique. 
Common from the West Indies to Brazil. 
Cusa: Lomo del Gato, Wright, 1816, CKEN. 
Jamaica: Jenman, 6, K; Purdie, K. 
St. Vincent: Guilding, K. 
_ Sr. Lucia: /. Gray, K; H. B. Murray, K. 
GuapELoure: Mazé, 1067, K. 
Dominica: 1839, Dr. Imray, N. : 
 Grenapa: Sherring, CK; Murray & Filiott, K. K 
‘Trinipap: Fendler, 28, CKUEN ; 1897, Hart, CK; has She 
