A New Spectres or NoTHOLAENA 5 
fronds, their stipes and primary rachises very stout. 
Rhizome multicipital, the divisions stout, decumbent, or 
ascending, 1 to 3 em. long, coarsely radicose, densely 
covered with closely impacted scales, these 2 to 3 mm. 
long, narrowly deltoid-lanceolate, long-attenuate, coal- 
black and opaque (or, at first, with a short broad yellow- 
ish-brown median stripe at the base), rigid, unevenly 
ciliate throughout, the cilia 18 to 25 on each side, rigid, 
unicellular, dark brown, irregularly divergent, fragile; 
stipes straight or nearly so, 4 to 15 em. long, 1 to 2.2 
mm. in diameter, purplish-black and sublustrous beneath 
a dense subfurfuraceous covering of scales, these mostly 
brownish-ferruginous and closely appressed, a few of 
them darker-margined and divergent, all conspicuously 
long-ciliate; lamina linear to narrowly oblanceolate- 
oblong, 10 to 35 em. long, 3 to 6.5 em. broad, acuminate, 
slightly narrowed at the base, subbipinnate nearly 
throughout, the primary rachis stout and squamulose- 
paleaceous like the stipe; pinnae 10 to 25 pairs below 
the simply pinnate apex, subopposite to alternate, the 
lowermost ones deltoid, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. 
broad, opposite, distant, those above gradually longer 
and closer, mostly 2 to 3.5 em. long, 7 to 10 mm. broad, 
elongate-deltoid to very narrowly deltoid-oblong, with 
about 8 to 14 pairs of approximate to subdistant, nar- 
rowly oblong segments below the lobate acutish apex; 
segments crenate to crenately lobed, adnate, joined by 
a very narrow wing (or the large basal ones semiadnate 
or subsessile, pinnately lobed or deeply pinnatifid), the 
lobes or crenations (3 to 5 pairs) of all the segments 
rounded, broadest at or near the base, close, subentire. 
Leaf tissue thick, rigidly herbaceous, the lower surface 
densely tomentose-paleaceous (the scales flaccid, with 
thin-walled oe and with few, very long, distant, 
capillary teeth), the upper side dull dark green, minutely 
glandular, conspicuously hispid ae numerous spreading 
