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214. Dryopteris cordata (Fée) Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 18. 1903; C. Chr. Ind. 258. 
Syn. Phegopteris cordata Fée, Gen. 244. 1850—52; 6. mém. 13 lab. 6 fig. 3. 
Aspidium reptans var 1. cordata Melt. Aspid. nr. 237. 1858. 
Polypodium cubanum Bak. Syn. 304. 1867. 
Type from Cuba, leg. LINDEN nr. 1873 (not seen). 
Rhizome erect, with a few stellato-ciliate scales. Leaves fasciculated; stipe 
3—5 cm long, like rachis slightly stellato-puberulous and with some few longer, 
simple hairs. Lamina up to 30 cm long, 3 cm broad, linear, pinnate from base to 
short of the apex; larger leaves sometimes lerminating in a scaly bud, which pro- 
duces a rosette of young leaves, grey-green, chartaceous, opaque. Pinne numerous 
(20—30 to a side), close horizontal, distinctly stalked, oblong, '/2—1'/: em long, 
‘ly em broad, their base cordate, the apex bluntly rounded, the lower ones often 
gradually shortened, both surfaces, especially on veins, with not many small stel- 
late hairs. Veins about 8 to each side, generally forked, free. Sori a little above 
the middle of the vein in a single row on each side of the midrib, exindusiate, 
but the receptacle with several branched hairs. Sporangia with some bi-trifurcate, 
deciduous setze, soon glabrous. 
The typical form from Cuba of this species is widely different from most 
forms of D. replans, with which METTENIUS united it. In Porto Rico a form was 
collected by jSINTENIS (nr. 6380, 6588) referred hereto by UrBan, which resembles - 
D. cordata in shape of the pinnz; still I am inclined to regard the specimens 
as young states of D. reptans. "The pinnas are shorter, more ovate, scarcely 
cordate at base, and the sori are distinctly exindusiate. 

Cuba: El Yunque, Mt. Baracoa, UNpERwoop and EanLE nr. 725 (W) — Monte Verde, WnicHT nr. 1014 
(B, S) — Josephina, Yateras, Oriente, Maxon nr. 4117 (W.. 
Related forms, but doubtfully belonging here: 
Bahama Isl: Andros, Jouw J. and Atice R. NonTHnOP nr. 576 (B), ?583 (B). 
San Domingo: ad flum. Mameges, EcaEns nr. 2656 (B). 
215. Dryopteris sagittata (Sw.) C. Chr. Ind. 290. 1905. 
Syn. Polypodium sagittatum Sw. Prod, 132. 1788. 
Polypodium hastaefolium Sw. Schrad. Journ. 1800?: 25. 1801; Hk. et Grev. 
Ic. Fil. tab. 203; Bak. Syn. 304; Jenman, Bull. Dept. Jam. n.s. 4: 127. 
Polypodium hastatum Sw. Fl. Ind. occ. 1653. 1806. 
Aspidium reptans var. 2. hastaefolia Mett. Aspid. nr. 237. 1858. 
Aspidium hastifolium Gris. Fl. br. W. Ind. 694. 1864. 
Type from Jamaica, leg. Swartz (S!) 
A distinct species, not closely related to D. reptans, with which MreTTENIUS 
united it; the plate cited above gives a fair illustration of it. Most pinne short 
stalked and bearing a pair of acute spreading auricles at base, enlire or faintly 
crenulate, the lower ones gradually reduced to mere auricles. Rachis and coste 
