iiess^ HORTUS JAMAICENSIS, "i 



2. PALMATUM. PALMATED. 



Frond simple, pinnated, sub-palmate; apex peduntled; pinnas distant, patent, 



3. POI.YPODIOIDES. POLYPODfWM-LIKE. 



Frond simple, pinnate, lanceolate, erect ; pinnas obtuse ; capsule peJuncled, 

 incurved. 



4. ASPLENIOIDES. ASPLENIUM-LIKE. 



Frond sub-ramose, pinnated, erect, linear; apex peduncled; capsule in- 

 curved. 



S. FULGENS. SHINING. 



Dispersed, long, pendulous ; fronds compressed ; leaflets distich, folded-keeled, 

 snming. 



6. DIAPHANUM. DIAPHANOUS. 



Scattered, somewhat erect, sub- divided ; leaves bifarious, ovate, acuminate, 

 peUucid, plain. 



7. ALBICANS. WHITE. 



Creeping, ramous, compressed ; branchlets scattered ; leaves bifarious, ovate, 

 acute, pale ; capsules balf-nodding. 



8. GLABELLUM. SMOOTH. 



ivaricate, neaily erect, ramose ; leaves bifarious, imbricate, oblong, obtuse, 

 plain, somewhat toothed. 



9. PATULUM. .SPREADING. 



JTiliforni, creeping; branchlets scattered, short; leaflets lanceolate, reflex* 

 spreading. 



10. REPTAN3. RUNNING. 



Hunninpr ; branchlets scattered, bundled, rooting, filiform ; leaflets capillary^ 

 spreading ; capsules noddmg. 



11. FASCICULATUM. BIWDLED. 



Erect ; branchlets terminal, heaped, sub-divided ; twigs compressed ; leaves 

 oblong, decussated, scattered. 



12. TAMARISCI. 



Creeping, pendulous, longish, flexuose ; branchlets scattered, short, round, 

 recurved ; leaflets heaped, ovate, spreading. 



13. KIGRESCENS. BLACKISH, 



Filiform, pendulous ; branchlets short, round, scattered ; leaves equal, Subn* 

 late, spreading. 



14. DENSUM, DENSE. 



Erect, round; branchlets scattered, simple j leaflets approximate, lanceolate, 

 acute, keeled, spreading.^ 



U U U 9 15. FLEXILE, 



