XEPIIRODIUM, § LASTREA. 99 



Ilab. Brazil, about Rio, Dour/lax, Mar/ius, " Po/tl," Milnp and McGillivraij. — 

 This species is well distinguished by its jieculiar clotiiing: the stout stipites and 

 rachis are shaggy with woolly scales, the costai and costules have the ajjpearance 

 of l)eing infested by some kind of scale-insect, so copious and conspicuous are the 

 scales there. The species is well named, by Martius, lepiyerum. 



GJ. N. (Lastrea) Caripensc, Hook. ; " caudcx erect, stipes 

 paleaceous above (together with the frond on l)oth sides) pa- 

 leaceo-pilose, frond 2 feet long membranaceous pubescent at 

 the margin oblong acuminate pinnate, pinnoe petiolate .3-4 

 inches long from a truncated base oblongo-linear acuminate 

 deeply almost to the base pinnatifid, segments apj)roximate 

 oblong obtusely rounded entire, lowest ones narrowed at the 

 base and sessile, sori between the costule and the margin, in- 

 volucre membranaceous hairy at the margin deciduous before 

 the maturity of the capsule.^' Me//ew.— Aspidium, JSIetten. 

 Fit. Hort. Bot. Lips. p. 90. Aspid. p. 90. Polypodium, H. 

 B.K. in Willd. Sp. Pl.v. p. 202. Polypodium submarginale, 

 Lcnu/sd. et Fisch. Fil. p. 12. t. 13. P. distans, Kaulf. En. Fil. 

 p. 113. 



Hab. Carape, Venezuela, Humboldt and Bouplavd. Tovar, Fendler, n. 371. 

 Brazil, Langsdorff. — Langsdorff and Fischer's figure well represents the general 

 character of this Fern. My specimens are from Fendler. 



68, N. (Lastrea) lonchodes. Hook. ; caudex creeping elon- 

 gated as thick as a goose-quill scarcely chaflfy, stipes brownish 

 a foot long glabrous or pubescent above, frond subcoriaceous 

 rigid 1-H foot long pubescenti-hirsuteatthe costaand costule 

 the rest glabrous lanceolate pinnate, the apex long acuminate 

 pinnatifid, pinna3 12-18 pairs smaller towards each extremity, 

 lowest ones not deflexed oblong or oblongo-lanceolate crenate 

 or pinnatifid, the apex entire acuminate, segments short fal- 

 cate obtuse, veinlets 5-8 in each segment the two lowest 

 connivent (but not conjoined), keel prominent from the sinus 

 nearly to the costule, sori between the margin and the cos- 

 tule of the segments." — Aspidium, Eat. Fil. Wright, et Fendl. 

 p. 210. 



Ilab. Cuba, near Monte Verde, U'rir/ht, n. 1007, 1008.— A Fern of rigid tex- 

 ture, and, in that respect, resembling N. delfoideum ; but, as Mr. Eaton remarks, 

 the pinna; are not suddenly dwarfed towards tlie base of the frond. One of my 

 specimens of n. 1007 has the lowest pairs of segments dilated at the base into 

 two auricles, so as to give the pinna a hastate form, with blunt lobes. No. 1008 

 has very much the habit of A'. (Eunephrodium) niolle, but I do not find any of 

 the veinlets truly conjoined. 



69. N. (Lastrea) diplazioides. Hook.; "caudex erect, 

 stipes 3-4 inches long subsquaniosely paleaceous, frond 



