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177 229 



pinnæ 10 — 13 cm long by 1' ->— 2 cm broad. The erect rhizome is at the top \^'^^~^'*!i. 33 

 clothed with many castaneous, acuminate scales. 



Maxon (loc. cit.) says that P. serrulatum Sw. was founded upon Sloane's pi. 

 43 fig. 1 and that P. asplenioides Sw., founded upon Sloane's pi. 43 flg. 2 is the 

 same species. As I have shown in my paper on Swartz's species of ferns, Swartz 

 has never founded a species upon figures alone but always described them after 

 specimens. The two named Swarlzian species were described after specimens col- 

 lected by Swartz himself in Jamaica and Maxon is, therefore, not right in identi- 

 fying the two species from an examination of the figures quoted only. 



D. serrulata seems to be endemic in Jamaica, where a beautiful series of 

 specimens was collected by Maxon (numbers quoted by Maxon loc. cit.). Under- 

 wood, Hart and Jenman (W). 



226. Dryopteris anoptera (Kze.) C. Chr. Ind. 252. 1905 (excl. syn.). — Fig 31 d. 

 Syn. Aspidiuin anopterum Kze.; Kuhn, Linnaea 36: 113. 1869 (excl. sj'n.). 



Nephrodium nitidulum Bak. Fl. bras. V: 597. 1870; Syn. Fil. 502. (excl. syn.). 



Dryopteris nitidula O. Ktze. Rev. 3: 813. 1391. 



Goniopleris hastata Fée, Cr. vase. Br. 1: 107 tab. 33 fig. 2 (non 11 

 mém. 1866). 



Goniopieris bahiensis Fée, 1. c. 3: 61. 1872 — 73. 

 Type from Brazil: Bahia, leg. Moricand (B!, RB); Riedel (W). 

 An imperfectly known species, confounded with Aspidiuin catacolobum Kze. 

 and A. tiitidiilum Kze. figured by Ettingshausen, which no doubt belong to I), 

 lugabris. The type-specimen belongs to a species closely related to D. serrulata, 

 while other specimens from the same locality, often determined as D. anoptera, 

 seem to me to belong to D. pyramidata. In size, texture and cutting D. anoptera, 

 as understood here, does not at all differ from 1). serrulata, but it differs by the 

 presence of very small and few scales on the costæ beneath, by its more numerous 

 veins, 7 — 8 to a side, the lower ones truly united, and by its sporangia being setose 

 by hi- or trifurcate hairs. — I have no doubt that Gon. hastata Fée (G. bahiensis 

 Fée) is this, although the plate shows a plant with a distinct terminal pinna. 



227. Dryopteris hastata (Fée) Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 21. 1903; C. Chr. Ind. 269. 



Syn. Goniopteris hastata Fée, 11 mém. 65. tab. 18 fig. 1. 1866. 



Type from Guadeloupe, leg. L'Herminier (Herb. Cosson, Paris!; B). 



Rhizome short-creeping or decumbent, like the lower part of the stipes with 

 some stellato-pilose scales. Stipe and rachis shortly puberulous by forked and 

 simple hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous. Lamina up to 5 dem long, but generally 

 much shorter, pinnate in the lower half or two-thirds suddenly narrowed into a 

 long, broad, pinnatifid or lobed apex, herbaceous, strigose on the costæ above, 

 slightly puberulous by furcate and simple hairs on costæ and veins beneath, 



1). K. I) Viilensk. Selsk. SUi-.. 7. K.fkke. naluivideiisk. i)|j malhem. Aid. X. 2. 30 



