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25*. Asprenium (Huasplenium) notoputesium, Baker.—Rhizome 
wide-creeping, very slender. Stipes naked, green, remote, }-4 inch 
long. Frond lanceolate, simply pinnate, not produced and radicant 
at the tip, 3-1} inch long, 3-4 lines broad. Pinne 10-15-jugate, 
oblong-rhomboid, attached by’a short petiole at the lower corner, 
14-2 lines long, pointed at the upper outer corner, furnished with only 
a ety es which is nearer the lower than the upper ea and stops 
considerably short of the tip; branch veinlets non 
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Involucre broad, persistent. A very distinct delicate little plant, 
investing the stems of a Melastomacea, probably a Miconia. It co 
nearest the little-known Peruvian A. projectum, Kunze. 
SPLENIUM LunuLatum, var. A. Macrx1, H. e¢ G.—Exactly 
matching the Sandwich Island type 
Aspteysium Hatiu, H k.—Gathered previously by Col. Hall in 
Ecuador, and by Spruce in me Amazon Valle 
ASPLENIUM / Dalasi, ) PULICOSUM, Honk: —Much more satisfactory 
specimens than those of Jameson , on which the plant was named an 
Haig ribed. The general habit is completely that of A. radicans, 
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71*, Asprentum (Anisogonium) ueMionttipEUM, Baker, n.sp.—— 
Stipe about a foot long, stout, s ull brown, nearly naked, not 
murica ee Frond oblong-deltoid, simply reas 3-4 feet long, 14-2 
feet broad; rachis dull brown, nearly naked. wer pinne ‘abeblig 
elias lonnoclate, entire, acute, rounded on both aie at the base, 
8-10 inches long, 2-3 inches broad. Texture chartaceous ; both sur- 
between the midrib a edge, real the veinlets of the same group also 
anastomosing. Sori slender, running down all the veins, touching the 
midrib of the pinne, but not the margin. Involucre very narrow and 
obscure. 
71*. Asprenium (Anisogonium) macropictyon, Baker, 'n.sp.— 
Stipes tufted, 14-2 feet long, dull brown, obscurely furfuraceous. 
Frond oblong-deltoid, 2 feet long, simply pinnate in the cae sd 
gee in the upper half; rachis dull brown and furfuraceous, like 
the stipe. Pinne lanceolate, only the three lowest pairs ok pe hors 
sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-6 inches long, 14-2 inches broad, — 
entire, or the lower ones shallowy broadly obtusely lobed on the lower 
side. Texture membranous, but firm; both surfaces dark green and 
pereen except the main veins, which are clothed with ferruginous 
tomentum. Veins in erecto-patent groups ~ an inch broad, of 8-10 
ie. each, the contiguous groups uni nti as to form merely a 
deltoid areole against the midrib of the pina, and the veins - the 
me group al Sori slender, running down all the 
veins, reaching the midrib, but not the margin. This and the last 
fall in beside two of Dr. Spruce’s discoveries on Mount Chimborazo, 
Auplenium chimborazense and A, ri 
. Neparopivum (Zastrea) sancrom, Baker.—New to Ecuador. 
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