Sir R. Scliomburgk on Sea Fishes surrounding Barbados. 1 1 



uninterrupted parallel lines, connected however by non-soriferous 

 veins. 



The plant I am about to describe seems to do away with such 

 a distinction ; for in it the sori are parallel, uninterrupted, and 

 might be described as remotely forked rather than reticulated, 

 and so seldom does any division in the sorus take place, that it is 

 sometimes simply continuous for two or three inches together. 



Antrophyum GreviUii (Balfour in herb.) ; fronde sessili, late lineari- 

 lanceolata, inferne prsecipue attenuata, soris approximatis, paral- 

 lelis, longissimis, villosis, remote furcatis. 



I cannot find any described species of Antroj^hyum which at 

 all corresponds with Dr. Sibbald^s specimens. The fronds are 

 tufted, ten to eighteen inches in length, fully an inch broad in 

 the widest part, from whence they become insensibly narrower 

 towards the base, which however never passes into a true stipes, 

 although there is for the space of two or three inches an obscure 

 midrib. The sori, which constitute the most remarkable feature, 

 are so approximated as to be not more than a line apart, forming 

 twelve or more uninterrupted lines, which sometimes divide at 

 very remote intervals, but scarcely ever anastomose. The cap- 

 sules, which are similar to those of the other species of the genus, 

 are almost quite concealed by the mass of ferruginous hairs which 

 arise along with themselves from the soriferous vein. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE L 



Fig. 1 . Antrophyum GreviUii^ nat. size. 



— 2. A portion of the frond, showing tlie groove and soriferous vein. 



— 3. A capsule with some of the ferruginous hairs. 



— 4. Seeds. 



III. — A Description of some new Species of Fishes from the 

 Sea surrounding the Island of Barbados. By Sir Robert H. 

 ScHOMBURGK, Ph.D., Member of the Imperial Academy Nat. 

 Curios. &c.* 



It is much to be regretted that we do not possess as yet a sy- 

 stematical description of the fishes which inhabit or frequent the 

 sea surrounding the West Indian Archipelago. If we consider 

 that this group of islands extends from the Orinoco to East Flo- 

 rida, over more than eighteen degrees of latitude, namely from 

 9° to 27^° north, and over twenty-seven degrees of longitude, 

 the interest attached to this great expanse of sea may be con- 

 ceived. It is true we find occasionally a description of some so- 



♦ Reprinted from the ' History of Barbados.' 



