60 Baker. A Summary of the new Ferns 



48*. N. nevadense, Baker; Aspidium nevadense, Eaton, Ferns 



North Amer. 73, tab. 10. California, on the Sierra 



Nevada. 

 49. N. conterminum, Desv. Under this very variable species fall IT. 



brachypus, amphyoxypteris, lasiopteris, stenophyllum, 



and stramineum, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Prov. Quit. 



P- 43-5 x > fr m tne Andes of Ecuador and the Jamaican 



H". caribaeum and nockianum, Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 



1886, 270. 

 49*. N. Macgregori, Baker; N. st'mulans, Baker, in Journ. Bot. 



1890, 106, non 188, 325. Mount Knutsford, New Guinea, 



Sir W. Macgre.gor. Very near N. conterminum. 

 49*. N. fasciculatum, Baker ; Aspz'diumfascicula/um,FouTr\.mAr\n. 



Sc. Nat. seV. 5, XVIII, 295. New Caledonia, Balansa, 1611, 



3568. Not seen. 

 49*. N. Seemanni, Baker, n. sp. Rootstock not seen. Stipe short, 



naked. Frond oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-2 \ ft. long, 



8-9 in. broad, moderately firm, slightly hairy ; rachis naked. 



Pinnae very numerous, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, \ in. 



broad, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into entire 



segments, \ in. broad ; lower pinnae reduced. Veinlets, 5-6- 



jugate, simple, erecto-patent. Sori supra-medial. Indusium 



firm, glabrous, persistent. Oahu, Seemann. Very near 



N. conterminum. 

 49*. N. flrmtun, Baker; Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 1879, 260. Jamaica, 



Jenman. 

 52. N. Sprengelii, Hook. N. Sherringii, Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 



1879, 261, is, I think, a variety of this species. 

 52*. N. conforme, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Prov. Quit. 45. 



Andes of Ecuador, Sodiro, type and var. strigillosum. Near 



N. Sprengelii. 

 53*. N. polylepis, Baker; Aspidium polylepis, Franch. et Savat. 



Enum. Jap. II, 236, 631. Japan, Savatier, Dickins. Allied to 



N. conterminum and prolixum. Distinguished by its few veins 



and scaly rachis and lamina. 

 53*. N. longicuspe, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVI, 202. Central 



Madagascar, Miss Helen Gilpin. Near N. prolixum. 

 55*. N. retrorsum, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Prov. Quit. 51 



Andes of Ecuador, Sodiro. 



