564 NOTE ON ANEMIA SEEMANNI. 
B. Ficus asperifolia, Mig. in Hook. Fl. Nigrit. et supra, p. 231, 
n. 39. 
Nore on Anemia Szemannt, Hook.; by W. J. H. 
Tas. XVI. 
The Anemia, like other ferns, are difficult to discriminate, and we 
should despair of characterizing many of them, except by the aid 
of figures; and even then it behoves us to form new species with 
great caution, and not to assert that they are such too positively. 
The present individual sent from Taboga, near Panama, did 
strike me on first sight as being not only a very beautiful but a 
very distinct species, which I wish to dedicate to its discoverer, 
now on a botanical voyage in H.M.S. Herald. It must not, how- 
ever, be concealed that it is very closely allied to 4. humilis, Sw., 
(Osmunda humilis, Cav. lc. v. 6, p. 592, f. 3,) from the same 
country, and to the Anemia pilosa, Mart, and Galeot. Fil. p. 19, 
t. 2, f. 1, from the Cordillera of Oaxaca, and which I consider 
identical with 4. humilis. It differs in the smaller size, in the 
fewer, shorter, rounder, and less compound spikes. 
Anemia SEEMANNI, Hook. 
. Humilis, caudice repente villosissime paleaceo, frondibus cæspi- 
tosis pilosis pinnatis, stipitibus brevibus, foliolis obovato-rotun- 
datis sub-oblique cuneatis obscure lobatis minute crenulatis 
approximatis, sterilibus 7-8, fertilibus sub-4, terminali cuneato- 
flabellato, pedunculis binis (una cum fronde fertili) brevi-stipitatis 
stipite 4-plo longioribus, spica anguste lineari-oblonga sub-sim- 
plici. (Tas. XVL) i 
Has. Taboga, near Panama, W. Seemann. 
Tas. XVI. Fig. 1. Capsules :—magnified. 
