OF THE GeENus DANAEA 673 
In the report on Fendler’s Trinidad ferns Professor D. C. Eaton 
remarks: “The distinctions between this and D. nodosa are by 
no means clear. Mr. Charles Wright, who has had good oppor- 
tunities for observing both in Cuba, considered them forms of but 
one species.” With Eaton’s herbarium before me there seems to 
be no reason for any such confusion. The Cuban specimens of 
this species are slightly smaller but the above characters hold 
quite constantly. 
Jenman also calls attention to intergrading forms but says they 
can be distinguished readily by the nodose character of the stems 
of this species. 
4. DANAEA ALATA Sw. Syn. Fil. 167. 1806. (Type from Mar- 
tinique, Plumier, A/. 70g) ; 
A coarse plant with distant simple veins and broadly winged 
tachises, Rootstock unknown (except from Plumier’s figure) ; 
Stipes stout, more or less rusty scurfy, usually with one node ; 
rachises broadly alate ; pinnae 11-12 pairs, the lower 2-3 pairs 
smaller and widely separate, the upper gradually closer, rounded 
obtuse and unequal-sided at base, the apex more tapering, long- 
Pointed and denticulate ; sterile pinnae 12-16 cm. long, 2—2.2 cm. 
Wide ; veins mostly simple, the intercostal spaces about 6 to I 
€m.; sporophylls with 8-10 pinnae, which are linear, 8.5 cm. 
long, 7 mm. wide, abruptly acute at base, taper-pointed at apex, 
€ upper gradually narrower, the terminal much like the rest. 
St. Vincent: Guilding, K; 1834, Macrea, E; Smith, 279, K. 
GrenapA: Sherring, C. 
[Marrinigue: Plumier.] ee ee 
_ Guilding’s St. Vincent plant agrees perfectly with Plumier’s 
bl. x 09 on which the species was founded, and I cannot compre- 
hend how Jenman * could have been led to refer to this plate as 
Tepresenting D. stenophylla, which is a wholly distinct species, 
and which has been well figured by its author. 
19770 5. Danaea Fendleri sp. nov. 
A somewhat slender plant with small sporophylls and simple 
veins. Rootstock moderately slender, creeping or ascending ; 
Stipes of sterile leaves 12-15 cm. long, with I—3 nodes ; som 
—9 pairs beside the terminal one, opposite, peri cm, — 
€xcept the lowest pair, short, cuneate at base with the upper s 
Bull. Bot. Dept. Jamaica, 5: 189. Au. 1898. 
