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9. Danaea Wrightii Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 676. 1902. 
Plant rather low; leaves about 50-60 cm. long, the stipes 24-28 em. long, usually with 
2 nodes; sterile lamina oblong, 20-30 cm. long, 12-14 cm. broad; pinnae broad, 6-7 cm. 
long, up to 2 cm. broad, about 2 cm. apart along the rachis (the lower pinnae somewhat 
reduced and more distant) unequally rounded or blunt at the base, the apex blunt, the 
margins entire below, serrulate toward the apex; veinlets mostly forking, 11-15 per cm. ; 
sporophyls narrower with narrower shorter pinnae, these 3-4.5 cm. long, the stipes clothed 
with rusty scales. 
TYPE Locality: La Guinea, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba and Porto Rico. 
10. Danaea jamaicensis Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 675. 1902. 
A rather small plant with slender, elongate pinnae; rhizome rather slender, leaf- 
nodes close; leaves 2 or 3, somewhat glossy, 40-75 cm. long, the stipes with 2 or 3 nodes, 
olive or sometimes reddish, finely mottled, channeled when dry, sparsely scaly when mature, 
the scales reddish-brown ; sterile lamina oblong to ovate, 27-55 cm. long, 12-21 cm. broad, 
the rachis green or red, flecked with scales, very narrowly winged; pinnae elongate- 
oblong, 7-14 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, usually oblique, curved, abruptly and unequally 
narrowed below, cuneate or somewhat rounded, acuminate above and strongly mucronate- 
serrulate, the terminal pinna similar or lanceolate; midveins sparsely scaly, the veinlets 
forking, 12-14 per cm.; sporophyls very much narrower than the sterile leaves, the pinnae 
4-7 cm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Blue Mountains of Jamaica, at altitudes of 1300-1600 meters. 
11. Danaea stenophylla Kunze, Farrnkr. 1: 55. 1840. 
Danaea Mazeana Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 676, 1902. 
A rather tall plant; rhizome slender, elongate, the leaf-nodes separated; leaves 50- 
90 cm. long, the stipes 20-50 cm. long, with 2-4 nodes, dark reddish- or blackish-brown 
below, lighter above, flecked with small paler-brown appressed scales; sterile lamina 
elliptic or oblong, 25-40 cm. long, 18-25 cm. broad, the rachis dark-olive to olive-brown 
with a few scales, especially at the nodes, very narrowly winged; pinnae close, 21-33, 
somewhat oblique and falcate, linear-oblong, 8-15 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, unequally 
diminished at the base, the posterior portion narrower, longer, somewhat rounded, the 
anterior portion varying from rounded on the lower pinnae to excavate on the upper 
ones, abruptly acuminate, the tips sharply serrulate; midveins sparsely scaly, the veinlets 
naked, mostly forked, 12-15 per cm.; sporophyls narrower, taller, the pinnae much nar- 
rower, 6-12 cm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guadeloupe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Guadeloupe and Martinique. 
ILLUSTRATION: Kunze, Farrnkr. £/. 28. 
12. Danaea carillensis Christ, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genéve II. 1: 234. 1909. 
Rhizome creeping, ascending, covered with numerous scars, and the bases of former 
leaves, blackish-brown, 14 cm. long, not more than 2.5 cm. thick ; roots numerous, thick ; 
leaves fascicled, about 4, the stipes slender, castaneous, 1.5 mm. thick, with 4 nodes, the 
last at the base of the lamina (7. ¢., morphologically the terniinal pinna, all the lateral 
pinnae being absent), articulate, smooth, minutely furfuraceous, 8-10 cm. long; lamina 
oblong-ovate, 14 cm. long, 3.5 cm. broad, the base cuneate, the apex rather abruptly acumi- 
nate, the margin slightly revolute and strikingly undulate, somewhat serrate at the apex; 
midvein castaneous, slender, the veinlets spreading, black, often simple and clustered, 
about 11 per cm., thickened at the margin. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Carillo, Costa Rica, altitude 400 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type collection (Wercklé 365). 
