NEPlIROniUM, § LASTRE A. 129 



4-G inches long submemhranaceous brownish-green piloso- 

 glandulose triangulari-ovate shortly acuminate bipinnate tri- 

 pinnate below, basal primary pinnae petiolate half-ovate the 

 rest oblong obtusely acuminate subsessile, secondary piimce 

 oblong l-lh inch long deeply pinnatifid with obliquely ovate 

 small lobes or segments 1 h line long entire, ultimate pinnules 

 small sub-.3-lobed, veinlcts simple or forked, sori 1-2 on each 

 small segment or pinnule, involucre small reniformi-cordate 

 membranaceous ciliato-glandulose, rachises and petioles 

 everywhere glandulose and paleaceous with brown crisped 

 hair-like scales. — Aspidium hirtum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 56. 

 IVilld. Sjj. PL V. p. 266. Schk. Fil. p. 194. if. 46. B. Met ten. 

 Aspid. p. 114. Lastrea, Pr. Polypod., Siv. Fl. Ind. Occ. iii. 

 p. 1686. Cystopteris, A7. in Linncea, \. p. 361. C. rufescens, 

 Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 300. Polypod. barbatum, Kze. in Linnaa, 

 ix. />. 52. Polypodium crystallinum, K~e. in Schk. Fil. ii. /;. 

 85. t. 135 [ivcak sijeciinens). Cystopteris brevinervis, Fee, 

 Mem. vii. p. 65. t. 26. ,/". 2 {Mett.en.). Aspid. nemorosum, 

 IVilld. Sp. PL V. p. 83, accoi'diiig to Eat. Fil. JVright. et Fendl. 

 p. 209. Plum. Fil. t. 83 (a verij exaggerated figure) . 



Hab. Jamaica, Swartz, Purdie, March, JVihon. Cuba, C. Wright, n. 1015, 

 886, and 1016 (Aspic), nemorosum, Eat.), Pvsppig, Otto, Linden, 1876 and 1877. 

 Mountains of Vara Paz, Guatemala, Salvyn. Tropical West Africa, south of the 

 line (12-1.1 inches long), Curror.^k. very peculiar and well-marked species, not 

 to be confounded witli any other. My tropical African specimens are very fine, 

 yet in no way otherwise different from the West Indian ones. 



117- N. (Lastrea) y^wes^Mm, Hook. ; caudex long creeping 

 underground, " frond quinquangular tripartite primary divi- 

 sions ovato-acuminate lateral ones subopposite pinnato-pin- 

 natifid, two lowest exterior pinnae elongated middle division 

 bipinnate at the base, pinnato-pinnatifid at the apex, pinnules 

 or segments trapezio-ovate-oblong obtuse subfalcate auricled 

 above euneate and decurrent at the base, crenate incised 

 subpilose beneath, sori near the margin remote, rachises and 

 long stipes (deciduously) setoso-paleaceous." Kze. (Tab. 

 CCLIX.) — Aspidium, Kze. in Liimcea, ix. p. 96. Metten. 

 Aspid. p. 71. Lastrea, Moore. Aspidium cicvitarium, Willd. 

 Sp. PL v.p.2\5 {ex parte, JIde Klotzsch) . Kze. Flora, 1 839. 

 Beibl. p. 33. Klotzsch, in Linncea, xx.p. 371. 



Hab. South America : particularly abundant in Brazil, Martins, Gardner, 

 Spruce, etc. Guiana, all collectors. Porto Rico, De Schach. Guadeloupe, 

 Ullerminier. Trinidad, Sir Ralph Woodford.—" Species," observes Professor 

 Kunze, " ab omnibus adhuc descriptis distinctissima ! Frondis forma Cistopt. 

 moiitaiiam a?niulat." The author must mean in outline only. In size the frond 

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