18 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorLumE 16 
simple but distinctly paired in origin, 11-15 per cm.; sporophyls similar but with shorter, 
much narrower pinnae, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Near Port de Paix, Haiti. 
DISTRIBUTION: Throughout the West Indies and from Mexico to Brazil. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Plumier, Traité Foug. f/. 108; Mém. Acad. Turin 5; 1. 9, f. 11; Hook. & 
Grev. Ic. Fil. pl. 57, 
2. Danaea grandifolia Underwood, sp. nov. 
Related to D. nodosa but even larger; leaves up to 2 meters or more long, the stipes 
about 1 m. long, without nodes, olive, flecked with small purplish-brown appressed scales ; 
sterile lamina up to 120 cm. long, 55 cm. broad, the rachis very narrowly winged; pinnae 
15-29, oblong, 20-30 cm. long, 3.5-6.5 cm. broad, unequally cuneate, acuminate, stipitate, 
the stalks up to 1.5 cm. long, the margin entire, sometimes repand (lower pinnae somewhat 
reduced, the terminal pinna oblong); midveins sparsely scaly, the veinlets mostly forked, 
9-15 per cm.; sporophyls in general similar but narrower, the pinnae 15.5-24.5 cm. long, 
2.5-4 cm. broad. 
- eee collected in Valparaiso, Santa Marta, Colombia, 1898, HW. H. Smith 992 (herb. N. Y. Bot. 
ard. ). 
DISTRIBUTION: Panama and northern South America. 
3. Danaea elliptica Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 11: Danaea no. 2. 1808. 
Danaea media Liebm. Vidensk,. Selsk. Skr. V.1: 306. 1849. 
Danaea polymorpha Leprieur ; Baker, Ann. Bot. 5: 499. 1891. 
Danaea oligosora Fourn.; Christ, Hedwigia 44: 369. 1905. 
A broad-leaved species ; rhizome rather stout, the leaf-nodes close ; leaves rather glossy 
throughout, 30-90 cm. long, the stipes with one to five nodes, purplish-brown or brown, 
darker at the nodes, finely mottled, sparsely dotted with brown to purplish dark-centered 
scales; sterile lamina broadly oblong or somewhat ovate or rounded, 20-35 cm. long, 12-30 
cm. broad, the rachis similar to the stipe; pinnae 5-13, oblique, mostly elliptic, sometimes 
lanceolate, oblong, or oblanceolate, 8-17 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. broad (the lower pinnae often 
much reduced, the terminal pinna broader), straight, unequally rounded or cuneate below, 
usually acute above, or less commonly acuminate, entire throughout, the margin slightly 
and more or less unevenly repand; midveins not scaly, the veinlets forked near their 
origin, 8-11 per cm.; sporophyls mostly much narrower and taller, the pinnae up to 12 cm. 
long and 2.5 cm. broad. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
‘DISTRIBUTION : West Indies and Mexico to Brazil. 
ILLUSTRATION : Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. p/. 52. 
4. Danaea Jenmani Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 677. 1902. 
A rather small slender species, with short blunt pinnae; rhizome slender, the leaf- 
nodes close ; leaves 2-4, rather dull, 25-50 cm. long, the stipes usually with 1-2 nodes, olive, 
channeled when dry, 10-20 cm. long, scurfy with small, rather pale-brown, concolorous, 
appressed scales ; lamina of the sterile frond usually narrowly oblong, sometimes elliptic, 
15-30 cm. long, 9-18 cm. broad, the rachis green, or brownish with scales, narrowly and 
discontinuously winged; pinnae 20-30 (the terminal node without pinnae in mature 
fronds), oblong, 5-9 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, usually oblique, straight or slightly 
curved, abruptly narrowed both ways, cuneate to rounded below, acute or short-acuminate 
above, serrulate toward the apex; midveins scaly, the veinlets forking, 12-14 per cm.; 
sporophyls narrower, with shorter, much narrower pinnae. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Blue Mountains, Jamaica, altitude 600-1000 meters. 
5. Danaea crispa Endres ; Reichenb. f. Bot. Zeit. 30: 489. 1872. 
The smallest species known from North America; rhizome green, succulent; leaves 
about 15 cm. long, 4-5 em. broad; sterile lamina oblong, the rachis densely scaly; pinnae 
membranous, translucent, 31-39, the middle ones oblong, 2-2.5 cm. long, straight or slightly 
falcate, acute, unequally rounded, cordate or cuneate at the base, the margin crispate, 
