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311 



Fig. 34. D. atroruens (Mett.) C. Chr. — A segment seen from both sides. 



55. Dryopteris Germaniana (Fée) C. Chr. Ind. 267. 1905. 



Syn. Phegopteris Germaniana Fée, 11 niém. 55 tab. 13 fig. 2. 1866; Poly podium 

 Germanianum Bak. Syn. Fil. 306. 1867. 



Type from Guadeloupe, leg. L'Herminier n. 118 (HB!). Gathered in the 

 same island by Père Duss n. 4047, 4067 (HC "Terrestre, assez rare"). 



Ample. Stem 10 cm. long, robust, trisulcate with scales in the furrows. La- 

 mina 1 m. long, pinnæ Vi-2—2 dem. long by 3 cm. broad, segments 6—7 mm. 

 broad, close; lamina grass-green, herbaceous but firm, rachis and upperside finely 

 and shortly pubescent, the underside nearly glabrous or sparsely hairy on costæ 

 and veins; leaf narrowed suddenly downwards with about 10 pair of auriculiform 

 pinnæ from 2 cm. to 1 — 2 mm. long (Type V). Distinct, acute aërophore. Basal 

 segments not longer. Veins 7 — 10, simple; sori nearly medial, often subelliptical 

 and furnished with a very small, hyaline, ciliate, very deciduous indusium. 



Very near D. Moritziana, but sori medial and rachis without scales. Another 

 instance of a Phegopteris with indusium. 



var. glandulosa n. var. 



Jamaica : Vicinity of New Haven Gap, c. 1650 m. W. R. Maxon n. 2693 (HC). — 

 At the summit of Blue Mountain Peak, c. 7000', W.R.Maxon n. 1404 (HC). 



A typo differt: lamina subtus dense glandulosa; pinnis auriculiformibus 

 2 jugis. 



56. Dryopteris Moritziana Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 21 nota. 1903 — [Fig. 35]. 



Syn. Aspidium diplazioides Moritz; Mett. Pheg. und Aspid. 83 n. 200. 1858; 

 Nephrodium diplazioides Hk. sp. 4: 99. 1862: Bak. Syn. Fil. 270; Dryopteris diplazioides 

 O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 812. 1891. 



Type from Venezuela: Col. Tovar, leg. Moritz n. 408 (HB!). 



In size and broad pinnæ resembling D. Germaniana, but its stem densely squa- 

 mose and rachis nearly throughout furnished with brown, thin, somewhat crisped 



1). K. n. Vidensk Selsk. Skr-, 7. Række, natur%idensk. otj inathem. Afd. IV. 4. 41 



