159 211 



Hooker's figure of this species is excellent and il is sufficient here to refer to 

 thai figure. The species is closely related to D. Francoana, agreeing in size, colour, 

 texture and pubescence, still the midrib beneath is more distinctly stellato-puberu- 

 lous but also setose by patent, rigid, simple hairs; lamina pinnatilid about - ;; of 

 the way to the midrib and below it bears about 2 pairs of free, small pinnæ. 



209. Dryopteris Levyi iFourn.) O. Ktze. Rev. l : 813. 1891. C. Chr. 



Ind. 275. - Fig. 28 c. 



Syn. Aspidiiim Levyi Fourn. Bull. Soc. Fr. 19: 255. 1872. 

 Nephrodium Levyi Bak. Syn. 502. 1874. 



Type from Nicaragua; Chontales, leg. P.Levy nr. 463 (Herb. Cosson, Mus. 

 Paris!, also Kew!). 



Certainly closely related to D. Skinned, to which species I have referred it 

 previously as a variety, while I now think it is a valid species intermediate be- 

 tween Ü. Skinneri and Ü. giiadalupensis. From the latter it differs by venation, 

 pubescence,' indusium and by its lamina being !)roadest below the middle; it agrees 

 with it in size and general habit. It resembles U. Skinneri in pubescence, and the 

 upper pinnatifid portion of a leaf is not to distinguish from a leaf of D. Skinneri. 

 Still it is a much larger species: stipe 15 — 20 cm long, lamina 20—30 cm long, 

 5—8 cm broad below the middle, the larger leaves pinnate in the lower half; basal pair 

 of pinnæ reduced, Vs cm long, the loUowing 3 — 4 cm long, ^U — 1 cm broad, adnate 

 to rachis, obtuse or acute at the point, entire or crenate or the larger ones pinna- 

 tifidly cut about ';:i to the costa. Veins simple or furcate, in the larger pinnæ 

 about 4 to each side of the lobe, the basal ones connivent to sinus, more rarely 

 truly united. Lamina papyraceous, light-green, somewhat warted beneath. Ribs 

 pubescent by long, simple, and short stellate hairs intermixed. Indusium setose 

 by simple hairs. 



210. Dryopteris scolopendrioides (L.) O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. l: 813. 1891. 

 Syn. Pullipodium scolopendrioides L. sp. '2; 1085. 1753 mon ed. II. 1585. 17B3). 

 Äspidium scolopendrioides Mett. Aspid. nr. 235. var. 1. incisa. 1858. 

 Polypodium incisum Sw. Prod. 131, 1788; Fl. Ind. occ. 1640 (vide C. Chr, 



Ark. for Bot. 9": 22 tab. 3 fig. 1. 1910). 

 Aspidinm incisum Gris. Fl. br. W. Ind. 694. 1864. 

 Nephrodium incisunj Bak. Syn. Fil. 288. 1867; Jenman, Bull. Depl. Jam. 



n. s. :i: 141. 1896. 

 Dryopteris incisa O. Ktze. Rev. 2: 813. 1891; C. Chr. Index 272. 1905. 

 Polypodium praelonyum Poir. Enc. ■"): 521. 1804 (t. sp. orig. in Herb. 



Lamarck). 

 Aspidium stenopteris Kze. Farnkr. '2: 48 tab. 120. 1849. 

 Nephrodium stenopteris Eat. Amer. .lourn. Sei. II. '27: 19'.). 1859; Hk. sp. 



ni. 4: 64. 1862. 



