BENEDICT: A NEW CUBAN FERN 41 
Another hitherto unvisited Cuban range, the Sierra 
Nipe, located on the east side of the island, has recently 
been partially explored by Dr. J. A. Shafer, collecting 
for the New York Botanical Garden. From preliminary 
study, it appears that the collections contain a large 
number of undescribed flowering plants. The ferns have 
not been studied comprehensively, but in looking over 
the material of the genera included in the first part of 
Vol. 16 of the North American Flora, the writer found six 
= species of Anemia, one of which is quite distinct from any 
Species described in Mr. W. R. Maxon’s — of 
the North American species 
It may be described as iollows: 
Anemia nipeénsis sp. nov. 
| Rootstock creeping, dorsi ventral, rather “dienitag? less 
“than 2 mm. thick, br. saahiaig! covered very slender 
2 _hairlike brown scales. Leaves in two rows, dimorphic, the 
ae very ee about 35 em. long, 3-pinnate, 
. wit. sepihe volute — nnze borne above | 
— “altitude; eu é 
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