142 90 



117. D. Germaniana (Fée) C. Chr., Revision nr. 55, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 53: 384. 

 Area: Guadeloupe, Porto Rico (t. W. R. Maxon), Cuba. 

 The variety glandulosa Revision 311 belongs to Ü. pachyrachis. 



118. D. melanochlaena C. Chr. Smiths. Misc. Coll. 53: 384. — Fig. 15 b. 

 Area: Guatemala. 



119. D. atrorubens (Mett.) C. Chr., Revision nr. 54 fig. 34. 

 Area: Peru. 



120. D. demerarana (Bak.) C. Chr., Smiths. Misc. Coll. 53: 385. — Fig. 15 d. 

 Area: Guiana, Mt. Roraima, im Thurn nr. 356 (Kew!). 

 Best marked by its subopposite very distant pinnæ. Closely allied to D. nistica. 



121. D, dominicensis C. Chr. Smiths. Misc. Coll. 52: 384. — Fig. 15c. 

 Area: Dominica; Martinique, Husnot nr. 356 (CC); Guadeloupe, Maze nr. 647. 



122. D. Moritziana Urban; C. Chr. Revision nr. 56 fig. 35. 

 Area: Venezuela. 



123. Dryopteris nitens (Desv.) C. Chr. comb. nov. — Fig. 15 e. 



Syn. Polypodium nitens Desv. Prodr. 240. 1827. 



Dryopteris baniensis Ros. Fedde, Repert. 7: 301. 1909! 



Type from Peru, (Herb. Mus. Paris!). — Ecuador, Banos, Spruce sine 

 num. (RB). 



This was founded on an incomplete specimen but is apparently a very di- 

 stinct species. The original specimen consists of the lower half of a lamina with 

 a part of the stipe, which is stramineous and glabrous. Lowest pair of pinnæ 

 deflexed and below them a pair of auriculiform pinnæ. Pinnæ opposite, sessile, 

 12 cm long by 2 cm broad, acuminate, thinly herbaceous, the costæ above pilose, 

 costæ, costulæ and veins beneath long- and soft-hairy by whitish, thin, pluri- 

 cellular hairs, the costæ besides furnished with a few small, red, thin scales. 

 Rachis stramineous, deciduously hairy. Segments close, connected by a wing 

 Vli mm broad, bluntly rounded at the apex, the margins obscurely crenate, ciliate, 

 6—7 mm broad, the lower pair not reduced. Veins simple, 8-jugate. Sori medial, 

 reddish, exindusiate. 



D. baniensis Ros. based on a single leaf with a pinnatifld apex is quite 

 the same. 



124. D. diplazioides (Desv.) Urban; C. Chr. Revision nr. 58. 



Area: Mexico^Colombia, Bolivia (Buchtien nr. 1126, 1130, R). San Domingo, 

 Guadeloupe. South Brazil (var. breuisora Ros.). 



