108 56 
In its most developed form a very distinct species but in minute characters 
not essentially different from JD. nigrovenia and D. Lindeni. Stipe, rachis and coste 
beneath with many, castaneous, narrow scales, which have a broad, but scarcely 
bullate base and a long filiform apex, which is sometimes ciliated. Stipes fasci- 
culated from an erect rhizome, 25—35 cm long, castaneous, glossy. Lamina deltoid, 
20—30 em long, firmly herbaceous, dark-green, glabrous, nearly tripartite in the 
most developed form. Basal pair of pinnz much the largest, up to 15 cm long, 
bipinnatifid, their basiscop pinnule much enlarged, 4—6 cm long; incised nearly 
to the costa into oblong, acute, entire or faintly toothed segments, their acroscop 
pinnulz smaller often only 1 or 1'/» cm long, sometimes not quite free, serrated or 
lobed halfway down to the midrib. Other pinne pinnatifid or fully pinnate at 
the base, 6—8 cm long, 2—2!/» cm broad, equal-sided, their segments acute, entire 
or toothed in the outer part. Veins 5—8, simple, reaching the margin. Sori infra- 
medial, small, apparently exindusiate. 
Guatemala: Zamorora, Depart. Santa Rosa, 5500’, Heype et Lux, ed. Donn. SmirH nr. 4662 (B, W) — 
Pansamala, Depart. Alta Verapaz, 4000’, H. v. TirckHEIM, ed. DoNNELL SmirH nr. 1057 (B, W). 
Costa Rica: Tablazo, 1900 m, BrorrEv nr. 64 (C, CC, W); Brave nr. 144 (R) — Surubres, BrIoLLEY 
(W) — La Palma, WERnCKLÉ nr. 17078, 17087 (C, CC, W) — Bord de l'aguacaliente 1300 m, 
PrrrrER nr. 2416 (B) — Forests of Virris, near la banilla, 800 m, BioLLEy (W). 
Panama: Maxon nr. 5412, 5435 (W). 
48. Dryopteris honesta (Kze) C. Chr. Index 271. 1905. — Fig. 11b. 
Syn. Polypodium honestum Kunze, Linnaea 9: 49. 1834. 
Phegopteris honesta Mett. Pheg. u. Aspid. nr. 59. 1858; Ettingsh. Farnkr. 
164 tab. 106 fig. 3, 7, 13. 
Polypodium fibrillosum Bak. Syn. 307. 1867. 
Dryopleris fibrillosa C. Chr. Ind. 264. 1905. 
Type from Peru, prope Pampayaco, leg. PoEePPIc. — I have not seen an 
authentical specimen of the type-collection, but the three figures of EcrTINGSHAUSEN 
quoted above, which agree excellently with the descriptions of KuNzE and METTE- 
NIUS, illustrate a form that is quite identical with a specimen in Herb. Mus. Paris 
of Spruce’s collection nr. 4772 from Tarapoto, Peru, the type-number of P. fibril- 
losum Bak. The same form was collected in Bolivia, Antahuacana, O. BucHTIEN 
nr. 2191 (R). 
Stipe below densely clothed with patent 1—2 cm long, narrow and acute, 
castaneous or black-brown, faintly toothed scales. Pinnz opposite, short-stalked, 
10 em long by 3 cm broad, at distances of 6—7 cm, the lowest pair deflexed with 
their lower side somewhat enlarged. Rachis and coste beneath furnished with 
several, narrow, linear-acuminate, black-brown, faintly toothed scales (fig. 3!*), 
coste on both sides sparsely hairy or almost glabrous, surfaces otherwise glabrous. 
Texture firmly herbaceous, colour brownish, leaf-tissue finely pellucido-punctate. 
Segments broad, obtuse, shallowly repand or crenate, the basal posterior one of the 
