7S REPORT OX TWO BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS FROM 



9. Hymexophylltjm DEJECTTTM, Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887), 



p. 289 ; Hook. Ic. PL t. 1610. 



Roraima : upper slopes, McOonnell 8f Quelch, 46 ; summit, McConnell 8f Quelch, 

 110, 113. 



Endemic. Mr. im Tliurn gathered it on the summit, as stated on j). 269 of Trans. 

 Linn. Soc Ser. II. Bot. ii. (1887). 



10. Hy'MENOphyllum polyanthos, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 149 ; 11. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.- 



Guiana, iii. p. 1044. IT. clavatwm, Sw. ; R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit .-Guiana, ii. 

 p. 272, iii. p. 1044 ; Appun, Unter den Tropen, ii. p. 594. H. Poeppigianum, Presl; 

 R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit. -Guiana, iii. p. 1014; Appun, Unter den Tropen, ii. 

 p. 59 1, 

 Roraima range, 3500 ft., McCormell 8f Quelch, (ill ; upper slopes, McConnell 8f 

 Quelch, 50 p.p., 73; summit, 8000 ft,, McConnell §r Quelch, 624. 



British Guiana: Kwating Creek, Potaro River and Mazaruni River ; also West Indies, 

 Central America, the entire South American continent, Tropical and Suhtropical Asia, 

 New Zealand, Mascarene Islands, and Tropical Africa. 



11. Hymenophylltjm microcarpum, Desv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vi. (1827), p. 333. 

 Roraima: upper slopes, McConnell 8f Quelch, i4, 69. 



Portorico, Guatemala, New Granada, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and South Brazil. 



12. Hyjiexophyllum sericeum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 146. 

 Summit of Roraima, 8600 ft., McConnell 8f Quelch, 628. 



West Indies, Guatemala. French Guiana, New Granada, Ecuador. Peru, Bolivia, 

 and South Brazil. 



13. Hymenopiiviii m lineare, Sw. El. hid. Occ. iii. p. 1749. 



Roraima: upper slopes, McConnell 8f Quelch, 55 pro parte; summit, 8600 ft., 

 McConnell 8f Quelch, 562. 



Tropical America from the West Indies and Mexico southward to Peru and Brazil, 

 Tropical and South Africa, and Mascarene Islands. 



14. Hy>ii:>ophyllttm sp., JS. multijido, Sw.. amnis. 



Mazaruni, between 250 and 3000 ft., McConnell §r Quelch, 596, 598. 



15. Trichomanes elegans, Rudge, PI. Guian. Rar. Ic. p. 24. Ripnenostackys elegans, 



Presl ; R. Schomb. Reisen in Brit.-Guiana, ii. p. 272 ; Appun, Unter den Tropen, 



ii. p. 594. 



Roraima range, 3500 ft., McConnell §r Quelch, 615; Mazaruni River, under 3000 ft., 

 McConnell 8f Quelch, 594. 



Central America, Trinidad, New Granada, Venezuela, and Northern Brazil. 



In no. 594 the upper part of one of the fertile fronds is barren, and about six pairs of 

 pinna' have grown out in a similar manner to those of the barren fronds. 



