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This is a more robust plant than D. pusilla with all free pinne auricled on 
both sides of the base and the central ones lobed with subpinnate secondary veins. 
D. coarctata has most pinne regularly pinnatifid and a scaleless rachis. D. sagittata 
is apparently similar, but it belongs to § Goniopteris and its hairs are stellate. 
56. D. sancta (L.) O. Ktze.; C. Chr. Revision nr. 32 fig. 20; Smiths. Misc. Coll. 52: 378. 
Area: Dominica, Porto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Guatemala. 
57. Dryopteris sanctiformis n. sp. — Fig. 12d. 
Type from Panama, eastern slope of Chiriqui Volcano, 2100—2300 m; leg. 
MAxon nr. 5294 (W). 
Rhizomate erecto, breve, dense radicante, squamis parvis ovatis parce onusto. 
Stipitibus dense fasciculatis, gracilibus, rubrescentibus, nitidis, ad basin sparse palea- 
ceis, glabris, 6—10 cm longis. Lamina anguste lanceolata, ad 22 cm longa, medio 
3—4 cm lata, versus basin breviter attenuata, gramineo-viridi, firmo-herbacea, bi- 
pinnatifida; rachi gracili, brevissime et tenuissime puberula.  Pinnis multijugis, 
sessilibus, alternis vel inferioribus suboppositis, falcatis, infimis 2—3 paris auri- 
culiformibus, medialibus maximis, 2—2!/» cm longis, basi 5—8 mm latis, acutis, 
supra ad costas sparse setosis, infra ubique glandulosis, inaequaliter pinnatifidis. 
Laciniis 6—7-jugis, ovato-oblongis, obliquis, acutis, anterioribus majoribus, basali 
anteriore semper maxima, posterioribus minoribus, basali minima. Venis simpli- 
cibus, 3—4-jugis. Soris supramedialibus, indusio late affixo glanduloso persistente 
obtectis. Sporangiis glabris. 
This new species resembles very much certain forms of D. sancta, mainly in 
size and its unequal-sided pinn; it differs by its indusiate sori and its lamina 
being shortly narrowed downwards about as in D. concinna or D. Lindigii, but its 
real affinity is with D. sancía and D. pseudosancta, The indusium is peculiar; it 
is glossy, red-brown and impressed in the centre, while the free edges are greenish 
or whitish and glandular; it is not exactly reniform but rather variable in shape. 
To this species I refer Spruce nr. 5297 (RB) from Ecuador that is rather 
typical and further two other specimens, which are not glandular beneath and 
somewhat more pubescent but agree in size and shape of pinnz: 
Venezuela, Eacers nr. 13260 (H). 
Ecuador, Andes of Quito, Spruce nr. 5297 A (H, L). 
58. Dryopteris longicaulis (Bak.) C. Chr. Index 275. 1905. 
Syn. Nephrodium longicaule Baker, Journ. Bot. 1881: 204, et in Hook. Icon. 
pl. tab. 1658. 
Type from Colombia, Province of Antioquia, leg. KALBREYER nr. 1454 (Kew !). 
A remarkable species well figured by Baker. It belongs to the small group 
of D. sancta by its narrow leaf and unequal-sided pinne differing from all other 
