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at the middle incised a little more than halfway to the midrih with entire, ob- 

 tuse lobes; the veins once forked and the sori uniserial. This is the common form 

 in Jamaica. In San Domingo the form described as Pol. domingense Spr. is apparently 

 very common. Its leaves are longer (30 cm or more) but scarcely broader than in 

 the Jamaican form and on longer stems but otherwise not materially different. In 

 Porto Rico and Guadeloupe the most common forms are the large var. portoricensis 

 Kuhn (Porto Rico) and the true P. guadalupense Wikstr. (syn. Goniopteris affmis Fée) 

 (Guadeloupe). The leaves of these forms are up to 50 cm long on long stems, often 

 more than 10 cm broad at the middle, incised almost to the midrib in broadly linear 

 segments, which are 4 — 5 cm long, 1 cm broad and often again deeply lobed. Veins 

 pinnate in the lobes and sori in several rows or even in a distinct row on each 

 side of the secondary veins. The middle segments are often considerably and une- 

 qually lengthened. 



Specimens examined: 



Guadeloupe, Foksström S); L'Herminiku nr. 128 (li, C = G. affinis Fée) —Père Duss nr. 1059 iCC, 

 H, RB, W), 4389 (C). 



Martinique: Lenormand (B). 



Porto Rio: SiNTENisnr. 877, 2450, 5452, 5664, ,">820, 584(1, 5841, .-iölfl, 6108, 6234, 6247 (ß and partly C, 

 CC, S, W) - G. P. GoLL nr. 271, 870, 881, 948, 1015 (W) — A. A. Heller nr. 6174 (W) — 

 Mr. and Mrs. Heller nr. 354 (W) — Underwood and Griggs nr. 52, 76, 883 (W . 



San Domingo: Bertero (B = Pol. domingense Spr.J, Balbis (R) ~ Weinland nr. 44 (B) — Picarda 

 nr. 155, 209, 387, all from Haiti B) — inter Batey et Janiao, Eggers nr. 2605 (B) — in 

 flumine Mameges, Eggers nr. 2657 (B) — in monte Isabel de la torre, Eggers nr. 2733 (B, 

 RR) - La Cumbra, Raunki.5:r nr. 102 (CC, H) ~ v. Tuerckheim nr. 2517, 2644, 2845 (B). 



•la m aie a: P. Browne (S, ex herb. Linn.) ~ Swartz (S) — Blue Hole, A. Fredholm nr. 3192 (W) — 

 near Port Antonio, Maxon nr. 1985, Underwood nr. 2989, 1703 (W) — near Priestman's 

 river, Maxon nr. 24H5 (Rg, W — Mt. Diabolo, 750 m., Maxon nr. 2259 (W) Wilson nr. 



43 (B) — J. Day nr. 68 (B). 



Cuba: H. Otto nr. 38 (B), Lenormand iB), Rugel iB) — -San Antonio de los Banos, Prov. Habana, 

 V. Hermann nr. 3357 (\V). 



The plant described as Goniopteris gracilis Moore et Houlst. Gard. Chron. ISÖG: 

 301, flg., of which I have seen autlientical specimens (R), can, I think, safely be 

 regarded as a form of U. yaadalupensis, while several other forms, cultivated under 

 the name G. gracilis, are to refer to Ü. rcptans. The true G. gracilis is a form with 

 many free pinnæ and with a proliferous bud in the upper part of the midrib. 



212. Dryopteris Peripae (Sod.) C. Chr. Index 284. 1905. — Fig. 28 d. 

 Syn. Nephrodiiim Peripae Sodiro, Rec. 52. 1883; Cr. vase. quit. 265. 1893. 

 Type from Ecuador, secus fluni. Peripa, leg. Sodiro (Kew!) 

 A distinct species, perhaps nearest related to D. Levy i and D. guadaliipensis: it 

 resembles also D. haslata in its long pinnatifid apex, which is not much shorter 

 than the lower pinnate portion of the lamina, but otherwise it is very different. — 

 The short creeping or decumbent rhizome bears some few stellate-pubescent scales. 



