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cellular and long, pluricellular hairs, the margins and veins above with solitary 
long setze. Aérophore large, acute, hairy (as in D. deltoidea). Lower pinne more 
or less reduced, seldom equal to the next pair, sessile or very shortly stalked. 
Pinnz alternate, about 8 cm long by 1!/» em broad, the apex acute or acuminate, the 
base unequal-sided, truncate on the upper, cuneate on the lower side, incised to a 
narrow wing 1—2 mm broad into falcate or oblique, entire or faintly crenate, 
acute segments, 4 mm broad. Upper basal segment generally a little longer and 
almost parallel to rachis, the lower (especially in the lower pinnz) shorter and 
oblique. Veins 7—8-jugate, simple, the basal ones running out to the sinus or a 
little above it with a hyaline, hairy membrane or (in dried specimens) a distinct 
keel between them. Sori supramedial, furnished with a large, reddish, persistent 
indusium, which is glabrous or more often pubescent by short hairs and a few 
long, deciduous sete. 
D. L'Herminieri, with which A. trichophorum Fée is absolutely identical, is a 
fairly constant species, mainly varying in pubescence. A. Capitainei Fée is a form 
with a glabrous indusium and without long, pluriceliular hairs on rachis and veins 
above, but the rachis and coste beneath are more densely tomentose by the short 
hairs; to this form belong all specimens from St. Vincent and Grenada, while the 
specimens from Guadeloupe are partly this form partly typical. N. Holmei Bak. is 
the typical form and A. asperulum Fée is intermediate between the two extremes. 
According to a note in Herb. Berol. by METTENIUS Nephrodium clypeolutatum Desv. 
is this species; if so the name of course has priority. — The species seems to be 
confined to the Lesser Antilles, from which I have seen the following specimens. 
METTENIUS mentions a specimen from Jamaica, leg. BREUTEL, which I have not 
seen, and JENMANN does not know the species as Jamaican. The Brazilian specimens 
referred hereto by Baker in Fl. bras. belong to D. lugubris. 
St. Kitts: Brirron and CowrErr nr. 398 (W). 
Montserrat: Ryan (H); HorwE (Kew — N. Holmei Bak.). 
Guadeloupe: L'HEnMiNIER (B, hb. Fre, Paris) — MazÉ nr. 40 (C), JENMAN (W), Pere Duss nr. 4044, 
4405 (W). 
Dominica: EccEns nr. 898 (W); F. E. Lrovp nr. 23 et 754 (W). 
Martinique: Pére Duss nr. 1583, 1584 (W) — Borpaz (C). 
[St. Lucia: Gray according to JENMAN, not seen.|. 
St. Vincent: JENMAN (W)|, EacEnRs nr. 6883 (C, W), CHECKLEY nr. 10 (C) — Herb. Bot. Gard. Trinidad 
nr. 6182 (C). 
Grenada: SHERRING nr. 222 (W); Murray and ErLrorT (B, W); EcaEnS nr. 6102 (C, W), JENMAN (W), 
Broapway nr. 3767 (RB). 
180. Dryopteris lonchodes (Eat.) O. Ktze. Rev. 2; 813. 1891; C. Chr. 
Ind. 275. — Fig. 20. 
Syn. Aspidium lonchodes Eaton, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. S: 210. 1860. 
Nephrodium lonchodes Hk. sp. 4: 99. 1862; Hk. Bak. Syn. 270. 
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