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wnaller plant than tenerum, which in general habit it resembles, the 

 segment larger and much more deeply cut, the incisions being from 

 1-3 li. d. In my Jamaica Fern Flora, on a false identification of a spe- 

 cimen received, I accepted this with great doubt as " A. emarginatum, 

 Bory Wild," an Eastern species, with round even-edged leaflets, merely 

 notched here and there and bearing no resemblance to the large deeply 

 incised leaflets of this. — Porto Rico. 



Pteris regia, Jenm. — Stipites stout, erect, freely aculeated, 4-5 ft. 

 1., brown, the base palaceous; fronds subdeltoid, tripartite, quadri-pin- 

 natifid, 5-6 ft. 1. and w.. the lateral lower divisioES large.- 1 and more 

 compound, chartaceous, naked, light green, the vascular parts light 

 brown and glabrous, the rachis sparsely piickly at the bace ; largest 

 central pinnae 1^-2^ ft, 1., 6-8 in. w., pinnules connected, with an open 

 rounded sinus or entirely disconnected and contiguous or twice or thrice 

 their own width apart, 3-4 in. 1. ^-1 1 in. w. terrate-acuminate, entire 

 or the liirger cut in part or wholly, usually only in the centie on onem- 

 both sides, into oblique acute serrate-pointed lobes 2 li. w., and ^-f in. 

 1. with an acute or broadly open rounded sinus between ; veins fine 

 areolae 1-2 serial with free corked or s mple exteiicr brarches, costa 

 arch incomplete falling short of the outer rib ; sori continuous, or inter- 

 rupted in the sinus reaching the serratures of the outer part of the seg- 

 ments. — Gard. Chron. 12th Jan. 1895. 



Jamaica; 3,000-4,000 ft. alt., in woods in the Eastern paiishes 

 The fronds are of a bright, light colour, resembling those of aculeata 

 of which it may possibly prove to be the maximum state when fully 

 known, though the material of this at present known, while suggesting 

 does not confirm this conjecture. 



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