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ciliate, dark-green, often glossy. Pinne few, 4—8-jugate, 8—10 cm long (or shorter), 
2 cm broad, broadest at the middle, the basal ones not or a little shorter, not re- 
flexed, nearly sessile, the upper ones adnate, at least confluent, the uppermost pair 
shorter and form like a hastate base of the pinnatifid or lobed apex of the lamina, 
which is 1—2 dem long by 3—4 cm broad and often exceeds in length the pinnate 
lower part of the lamina. Pinna broadly serrate or even crenate only, the teeth 
broader than long, oblique, bluntly rounded or their outer margin straight. Veins 
about 6 to each side, the lower 2—3 pairs united alternately into a flexuose branch 
running to the sinus, or sometimes the lower pair is meniscioid; often some of 
the following do not reach the excurrent branch but end in the leaf-tissue. Sori 
inframedial, exindusiate. Sporangia furnished with bi- or trifurcate hairs. 
In several characters, especially in venation and pubescence, D. hastata re- 
sembles D. obliterata, to which species Baker (Icon. plant. t. 1669) referred it, but 
it differs considerably by the shape of the apex of its lamina and by its setose 
sporangia. By these two characters connected it is also different from allied spe- 
cies with a pinnatifid apex (D. serrulata and others). 
Guadeloupe: L’Herminier nr. 130 (B, herb. Mus. Paris). 
Porto Rico: Sinrenis nr. 5819 (B, C, W), 6268 b, 6668 (B); G. P. Gorr nr. 133, 862 (W); A. A. HELLER 
nr. 6200 (W); UNDERWOOD and Griaeés nr. 869 (W). 
Tobago: Broapway nr. 3432 (D). 
Trinidad: Harr nr. 561 (W). 
i~ var. leptocladia (Fée). 
Syn. Goniopteris leptocladia Fée 11. mém. 63 tab. 16 fig. 3. 1866. 
Differs from the type, with which it agrees in pubescence and setose sporan- 
gia, by its more numerous pinnz: (10—12 pairs), which are more deeply cut into 
sub-acute lobes generally longer than broad; the pinnatifid apex is proportionally 
shorter than that of the type; base of pinnz as a rule subcordate; only the two, 
rarely three lower veins united. 
Guadeloupe: L'HEnwiNIER nr. 131 (B, C, authentical specimens); Pere Duss nr. 234 (C), 4115 a (W). 
Martinique: Pére Duss nr. 4146 (RB). 
Porto Rico: UxpEnwoop and GnicGs nr. 888 (W; form. approaching the following variety). 
var. sub-auriculata Kuhn in sched. 
Syn Aspidium asplenioides f. exindusialum Kuhn; Krug, Engl. Jahrb. 24: 
119. 1897. 
Dryopleris asplenioides f. exindusiata Urb. Symb. Antill. 4: 18. 1903. 
Likely a new species, but in pubescence, setose sporangia and long pinnatifid 
apex agreeing with D. hastata, from which it differs by its large number of much 
smaller pinnz, 4—8 cm long, 1 cm broad, the lower ones rather reduced, sub- 
sessile, the middle ones adnate to rachis, obtuse auricled on both sides of the 
base, the upper ones confluent, crenate or shallowly and bluntly lobed. Veins 
