159 211 
HookEn's figure of this species is excellent and it is sufficient here to refer to 
that figure. The species is closely related to D. Francoana, agreeing in size, colour, 
texture and pubescence, still the midrib beneath is more distinctly stellato-puberu- 
lous but also setose by patent, rigid, simple hairs; lamina pinnatifid about */s of 
the way to the midrib and below it bears about 2 pairs of free, small pinne. 
209. Dryopteris Levyi (Fourn.) O. Ktze. Rev. 2: 813. 1891. C. Chr. 
Ind. 275. Fig. 28 c. 
Syn. Aspidium Levyi Fourn. Bull. Soc. Fr. 19: 255. 1872. 
Nephrodium Levyi Bak. Syn. 502. 1874. 
Type from Nicaragua: Chontales, leg. P. Lévy nr. 463 (Herb. Cosson, Mus. 
Paris!, also Kew!). 
Certainly closely related to D. Skinneri, to which species I have referred ii 
previously as a variety, while I now think it is a valid species intermediate be- 
tween D. Skinneri and D. guadalupensis. From the latter it differs by venation, 
pubescence, indusium and by its lamina being broadest below the middle; it agrees 
with it in size and general habit. It resembles D. Skinneri in pubescence, and the 
upper pinnatifid portion of a leaf is not to distinguish from a leaf of D. Skinneri. 
Still it is a much larger species: stipe 15—20 cm long, lamina 20—30 em long, 
5—8 cm broad below the middle, the larger leaves pinnate in the lower half; basal pair 
of pinnz reduced, !/» cm long, the following 3—4 cm long, ?/:—1 cm broad, adnate 
lo rachis, obtuse or acute at the point, entire or crenate or the larger ones pinna- 
tifidly cut about '5 to the costa. Veins simple or furcate, in the larger pinn:e 
about 4 to each side of the lobe, the basal ones connivent to sinus, more rarely 
truly united. Lamina papyraceous, light-green, somewhat warted beneath. Ribs 
pubescent by long, simple, and short stellate hairs intermixed. Indusium setose 
by simple hairs. 
210. Dryopteris scolopendrioides (L.) O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 815. 1891. 
Syn. Polypodium scolopendrioides L. sp. 3; 1085. 1753 (non ed. II. 1585. 1763). 
Aspidium scolopendrioides Mett. Aspid. nr. 235. var. 1. incisa. 1858. 
Polypodium incisum Sw. Prod. 131, 1788; Fl. Ind. occ. 1640 (vide C. Chr. 
Ark. fór Bot. 9!': 22 tab. 3 fig. 1. 1910). 
Aspidium incisum Gris. Fl. br. W. Ind. 694. 1864. 
Nephrodium incisum Bak. Syn. Fil. 288. 1867; Jenman, Bull. Dept. Jam. 
n. s. 3: 141. 1896. 
Dryopleris incisa O. Ktze. Rev. 2: 813. 1891; C. Chr. Index 272. 1905. 
Polypodium praelongum Poir. Enc. 5: 521. 1804 (t. sp. orig. in Herb. 
LAMARCK . 
Aspidium stenopteris Kze. Farnkr. 2: 48 tab. 120. 1849. 
Nephrodium stenopteris Eat. Amer. Journ. Sci. Il. 27: 199. 1859; Hk. sp. 
fil. 4: 64. 1862. 
