IAD. CXL. 
ASPIDIUM GLANDULOSUM. 
FILICES.—GvnarTz. Br.  PorvroprACcEx. Kaulf. — Fririczs vere. Willd. 
Gzw. Cuag. ASPIDIUM, Br. HYPOPELTIS, Mich. | Sori rotundi, dorsales. — Znvolucrum 
orbiculare, peltatum, stipitatum, in medio sori insertum, undique liberum. Zr. 
AsPrpIUM &landulosum; frondibus lanceolatis pinnatis, pinnis oblongo-lanceolatis sinuato-crenatis 
obtusis decurrentibus pubescenti-glandulosis, soris solitariis, stipite brevi paleaceo. 
Has. Jamaica. JD. Lunan, Hisson, 8 JFiles. 
FHadix e fibris paucis, simplicibus, flexuosis, pilosis. 
Planta. ceéspitosa. 
S£pites breves, vix pollicares, dense paleaceo-squamosi: squamis ovatis, acuminatis, nonnunquam sublaceratis, 
nitidis, fuscis. 
Frondes, circumscriptione, lanceolatzee, palmares, pinnatee. — Pinne vix unciam longae, obtuse, oblongo-lanceolatzse, 
. Sinuatze atque dentato-crenatze, utrinque pilis brevibus, sub lente, non raro articulatis, capitatis glandulosse, 
basi inferne decurrentes, ita ut frons fere pinnatifida. 
Fachis, basibus decurrentibus pinnarum quasi alata, utrinque minute glanduloso-pubescens. 
Sori solitarii, majusculi, in omnibus pinnis frondis inserti, in singula pinna 4 ad 7 vel 8, linea longitudinali intra 
costam et marginem dispositi. 
. Imvolucrum orbiculare, subconvexum, margine nunc sublaceratum, centro umbilicatum. 
Capsule numerosse, longe stipitatse. 
Semina ovalia vel subreniformia, fusca, plerumque, sub lente, marginata, margine echinato. 
Fig. 1. Portio frondis cum pube glandulosa. f 2. Sorus cum involucro. £f. 3. Capsule. f 4. Semina:— 
magn. auct. 
Much as has been done by the excellent Swartz and other botanists among the Ferns of J amaica, 
there still appear to be many undescribed species in that fertile island. Amongst a considerable 
collection that we have received from our friends and correspondents, now resident in that island, 
particularly Drs. Bancroft and Macfadyen, Messrs. Wiles, Lunan, and Higson, the present indi- 
vidual strikes us as an interesting species, of which we can find no description. 
The fronds might with almost equal propriety be called pénaatifid as pinnated, so constantly 
decurrent are the bases of all the pinna. The stipes is particularly short, and the whole frond, 
above and beneath, is covered by minute glandular hairs, which give a dotted appearance to the 
entire surface. 
