TAB. CLXII. 
NEPHRODIUM PUBESCENS. 
FILICES.—Gv&ATxz. Br.  PorxroprACcExX. Kaulf. —Fririczs verw. Willd. 
Grzw. CHag. AVEPHRODIUM, Br. Sor? rotundi, dorsales. — Znvolucrum reniforme, sinu 
affixum, marginibus liberis. £r. 
NzrHnRoDiUM pubescens; fronde ovato-deltoidea bipinnata pilosa, pinnis ovatis acutis inciso- 
dentatis summis subintegris confluentibus, inferioribus pinnatifidis, rachi involucrisque pi- 
losis. : 
Aspidium pubescens. Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 56. — IFilld. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 271. Spreng. Syst. 
leset. v. 4. p. 108. 
Polypodium pubescens. Zn. Sp. PI. p. 1552. 
Polypodium minus subhirsutum, &c. — Brown, Jam. p. 101. 
Has. In Jamaica. Brown; Swartz; Dom. files; Dom. Hisson. 
. Radix a nobis non visa. 
Caudez digitalis ad spithamseam, gracilis, fusco-luteus, glaber, nitidus, basi, in juniore planta, sublanatus, teres, 
hinc sulcatus. 
Frons palmaris vel spithamsea, circumscriptione ovato-deltoidea, utrinque nervis margineque pilosa, bipinnata. 
Pinne primarie inferiores digitales, lanceolatz: pinne secundarice, vel pinnule, ovatze, alternsee, subsessiles, 
acutissimse, supreme subintegerrimse, Zntermedic inciso-dentatse, Zmferioribus majoribus incisis et etiam pin- 
natifidis, segmentis semper acutis. 
Sori pauci, solitarii, subrotundi. 
Involucrum reniforme, sinu piloso, pilis articulatis, cito deciduum. 
Capsule numerosse, sublonge pedicellatae. 
Semina ovalia, pellucida, subangulata. 
Fig.1. Pinnule cum soris vetustis. f.2. Sorus cum involucro. f. 3. Capsule. f.4. Semina:—magn. auct. 
AVephrodium pubescens CA spidium of Swartz, and Po/ypodium of Linn.) is one of those plants the 
identity of which, for want of a good description or figure, must be to us a matter of some doubt. 
The present plant, which is equally with that species a native of Jamaica, appears to us to agree 
sufficiently well with the short characters of authors. Our description we accompany with a 
representation, which, we trust, will at least remove all doubt as to the plant we designate under 
this name. : ; 
It belongs, indeed, to a tribe or group of /Vephrodium, that is attended with much difficulty in 
the discrimination of the species which compose it, and which can hardly be understood without 
accurate figures. It will rank near to our 4spidium aculeatum : but is well distinguished by its 
shorter, more deltoid frond, having the rachis, and nerves, and margins of the pinnules clothed with 
copious and rather long hairs. | 
AVephrodium pubescens is one amongst a large and valuable collection, which had been gathered 
and presented to the Horticultural Society of Jamaica by Mr. Wiles. "This collection, in the most 
— liberal manner and with the consent of Mr. Wiles, the Society has transferred to us; and we are 
anxious thus publicly to render our acknowledgements for so useful and valuable a contribution to 
our Herbaria. 
