Egg &OB9 irOU T U S J A M A I C E !- S i S: 



Sands seven or eight feet long, on roundish unarmed tipe ; the leaflets lanceolate, 

 errate, smooth, bright green ; and the .fructifications ii orbicular, rufous, scatteed, 

 <tts. Loureiro. 



36. VIM os'T.M. HAIRY. 



Pilix ramosa major, hirsute, ramulis raris, pinnulis asplenii, scr'l 

 erebris, lads, brevibus, sub rotund is, non denfatis. SI iane, v v. \ t 

 p. 100. 



Fronds Li-pinnate, hirsute ; pinnaa oblong-obtuse, the terminating" ones acu- 

 minate. 



Stalks many, about two feet high, each as big as a finger, very hairy, and about a. 

 f(Wt fromthe ground divided" into branches, the lowermost whertof are about 1 

 inches long, almost opposite. Twigs more than an inch long, alternate, made up of 

 broad, short, mostly entire, hat sometimes notched, pinnules; roundish at the end, 

 often united for some space by their edges, pale green ; covered, as well as the stalks, 

 branches, and mid- ribs, with a whitishitrong short hair. It grew on the banks of th'; 

 Rio P'Oro, in Sixteen-Mile- Walk. -Sloane. 



37. SP1NOSUM. SPIKED. ' 



Filixarborea ramosa, spinosa, caudice non diviso, pinnulis lath, 'densis t 

 brevibus, tenuibus, mimitim dental is. Sloane, v. 1, p. 95, t. 50. 

 Fronds bi-pinnate, serrate ; trunk arboreous,, prickly. ' 



Tnink twenty feet high, as big as the human leg, undivided, covered with the ends 

 of the fallen petioles, which are dark brown, as big as t tie finger, two or three inches 

 long, thick set with short and sharp prickles on its back. At about a foot from the 

 trunk, each frond divides into opposite branches, placed near the bottom, at about six 

 inches distance from each otiier. The branches are a foot long in the middle; the 

 twigs come out alternately, being an inch and a half long, and about two-thirds of an 

 inch broad in the middle ; they are made up of pinnules one-third of an inch long and 

 half as broad, blunt, indented, dark green - above, pale green below, very thin, and 

 so close set that there is no space between them. It grew in a gully between Guanaboa 

 and St. Faith's, as also on Mount Diablo, in great abundance. Sloan*. 



Jl'itJi fronds super -decompound. 



38. DF.NTICULATUM. TOOTH-LETTID. 



Frond quadri-pinnate at bottom, at top tri-pinnate, smooth ; pinnules we fge- 

 ovate, gashed, tooth-letted ; fructifications solitary. Sv.\ 



39. ARMATUM. . ARMED. 



Fronds quadri-pinnate ; pinnules lanceolate, crenulate, smooth above, hirsute 

 at bottom ; fructifications crowded ; branches and branchlets rough ; trunk 

 arboreous, prickly. 



40. GI.AUCl'M. GLAUCOUS. 



Fronds quadri-piauate ; branches and branchlets lanceolate; pinnas lanceobtc, 

 pinnatifid; segments ovate-acute, glaucous underneath. 



41. dissectum, - 



