OF THE GENUS DANAEA 677 
GuADELOuPE: Masé, “ 17, 143, 485” (two sheets), K.* Al- 
though both are exactly alike, one of the Kew sheets is marked 
D. stenophylla by Baker, and the other occurs under cover with 
D. alata with neither of which it is closely related. The plant is 
known only from the type collection. 
2' “12, Danaea Jenmani sp. nov. 
Rootstock (as far as known) horizontal, rather stout ; stipes 
brown scurfy, those of sterile leaf 10-11 cm. long, usually with 
one node; pinnae 7-9 pairs, opposite, 2—3 cm. apart, obtuse at 
base with a short pedicel, 4.5—6 cm. long by 1.8 cm. wide, abruptly 
short-pointed, the margin more or- less serrulate at the apex; 
rachis scurfy, more or less alate; veins mostly forked, the inter- 
costal spaces about 12 to 1 cm. above the furcations ; basal and 
terminal pairs of pinnae shorter than the others ; sporophylls with 
about 11 pairs of pinnae, 5-8 mm. apart, 3 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 
mostly blunt and short-stalked. 
_ Jamaica: Jenman, 66, K (type); woods above Tweedside, 
between that property and New Castle, 1882, Miss Taylor, K. 
This is the species called D. alata by Jenman, and although 
he calls it “frequent” in Jamaica it appears to be very rare in 
Collections. It is clearly characterized as the only species with 
abruptly pinnate leaves and has little in common with D. alata. 
SPECIES INQUIRENDAE 
-DANAEA ELATA Liebm. Mex. Bregner, 154. 1849. (Type 
from Hacienda de Jovo, Vera Cruz, Mexico.) 
This is doubtless a well-founded species and is so accredited 
y Fournier, but we have seen no specimens. 
DanaEA MEDIA Liebm. Mex. Bregner, 154. 1849. (Type 
tom Hacienda de Jovo, Vera Cruz, Mexico.) ee 
Reduced by Fournier to a synonym of J. eliptica, probably 
ightly, but as we have seen no specimens it is safer to leave the 
Matter in doubt, especially as Moore refers it to D. alata. 
Sesh yge ee “s 
* The Kew herbarium is the most fortunate possessor of the finest collection of the 
ferns of the French West Indies anywhere to be found. The: collections were ce 
Principally in Guadeloupe by Mazé and afford superior information a oa ae! 
‘this island. Many of the specimens had been studied by the lamented gia oe ee 
ere are numerous species noted as new by both Fournier nisl Mest hime ih 
Sheets bear curious numbers, of which the present is an example, occurring on 
