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ciliate, dark-green, often glossj'. Pinnæ few, 4 — 8-jugate, 8 — 10 cm long (or shorter), 

 2 cm broad, broadest at the middle, the basal ones not or a little shorter, not re- 

 flexed, nearly sessile, the upper ones adnate, at least confluent, the uppermost pair 

 shorter and form like a hastate base of the pinnatifid or lobed apex of the lamina, 

 which is 1 — 2 dem long by 3 — 4 cm broad and often exceeds in length the pinnate 

 lower part of the lamina. Pinnæ broadly serrate or even crenate only, the teeth 

 broader than long, oblique, bluntly rounded or their outer margin straight. Veins 

 about 6 to each side, the lower 2 — 3 pairs united alternately into a flexuose branch 

 running to the sinus, or sometimes the lower pair is nieniscioid ; often some of 

 the following do not reach the excurrent branch but end in the leaf-tissue. Sori 

 inframedial, exindusiate. Sporangia furnished with hi- or trifurcate hairs. 



In seveial characters, especially in venation and pubescence, I), hastata re- 

 sembles D. obliterata, to which species Baker (Icon, plant, t. 1669) referred it, but 

 it differs considerably by the shape of the apex of its lamina and by its setose 

 sporangia. By these two characters connected it is also different from allied spe- 

 cies with a pinnatifid apex {Ü. serrulata and others). 



Guadeloupe: L'Heuminier nr. 130 (B, herb. Mus. Paris). 



Porto Rico: Sintenis nr. 5819 (B, C, Wi. ()2G8 b, {i668 (R); G. P. Gou. nr. IS.'i, 862 (Wj; A. A. Hei.i.eu 



nr. 6200 (W); Underwood and Griggs nr. 809 (W]. 

 Tobago: Broadway nr. 3432 (B). 

 Trinidad: Hart nr. 561 (Wj. 



var. leptocladia (Fée). 



Syn. Goniopteris leptocladia Fée 11. mém. 63 tab. 16 flg. 3. 1866. 



Differs from the type, with which it agrees in pubescence and setose sporan- 

 gia, by its more numerous pinnæ (10—12 pairs), which are more deeply cut into 

 sub-acute lobes generally longer than broad; the pinnatifid apex is proportionally 

 shorter than that of the type; base of pinnæ as a rule subcordate; only the two, 

 rarely three lower veins united. 



Guadeloupe: L'Herminier nr. 1.31 iB, C, authentieal specimens); Père Drss nr. 234 (C), 4115a (W|. 



Martinique: Père Duss nr. 4146 (RB). 



Porto Rico: Underwood and Griggs nr. 888 (W; form, aijproacbing tlie following variety). 



var. sub-auriculata Kuhn in sched. 



Syn Aspidium asplenioides f. exindusiatum Kuhn; Krug, Engl. Jahrb. 34: 

 119. 1897. 

 Dryopleris asplenioides f. exindusiata Urb. Synib. Antill. 4: 18. 1903. 

 Likely a new species, but in pubescence, setose sporangia and long pinnatifid 

 apex agreeing with Ü. hastata, from which it difiers by its large number of much 

 smaller pinnæ, 4 — 8 cm long, 1 cm broad, the lower ones rather reduced, sub- 

 sessile, the middle ones adnate to racbis, obtuse auricled on both sides of the 

 base, the upper ones confluent, crenate or shallowly and bluntly lobed. Veins 



