1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. ‘Ae 
flowers.—Forests of Pansamala, alt. 3,800 feet, June, 1886. 
(Pl. Guat. Tuerck., a I. D. S. edit., 942.) 
MyriocArPA HETEROSPICATA.—Moneecious: a_ shrub 
with pale smooth verrucose branches: leaves glabrate 
except the ciliate veins and axils of under surface, lanceolate- 
acuminate, 3-5 inches long, less than a tkird as broad. nar- 
rowed to a pubescent petiole 10-16 lines long, margins entire 
or with a few callose points, tri- or tripli-nerved with 2-3 
pairs above the middle, loosely reticulate beneath, above 
conspicuously beset with cystoliths not radiately arranged : 
spikes unisexual, approximate, single in the axils, secund, 
forking once shortly above the peduncle, the closely-flowered 
staminate spike about a third as long as the loosely-flowered 
6-9-inches-long pistillate one: male flowers 4-merous, peri- 
anth-segments roundish and marked with cystoliths, rudi- 
ment of ovary indistinct and peltate; female flower sessile 
in a 2-phyllous calycle.—Distinct by its spikes not androgyn- 
ous as in the only other moneecious species, J/. b¢furca Liebm.- 
The absence of both hairs and glands, as radiating points for 
cystoliths, is also special.—Forests of Pansamala, alt. 3,800 
feet, March, 1886. (Pl.Guat. Tuerck., aI. D. S.edit., 892.) 
_ Nepuropium TuEerckHeErmmi.— Rhizome stout, creep- 
ing, forking: stipes loosely clustered, ascending at base, 
2-24 feet long, a third of an inch thick, stramineous, 
of the space to the midrib; segments 70-jugate, linear- 
oblong, 8 lines long, 2 lines broad, oblique, acutish, margins 
revolute, veins 18—20-jugate with the lowest one terminating 
at the sinus; basal segments of lower pinne enlarged to 17 
lines long and 8 lines broad, ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid : 
sori submarginal, small, g-12 to the series, persistent In- 
dusium reniform and hirsute.—Allied to 1V. patens Desv., 
and especially to the var. stépudare Bak. ( Aspidium stipulare 
Willd.), but differing by the chaffy stipe and rachises, deeply 
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Cut pinne, numerous segments and veinlets with sori nearer 
