264 SUPPLEMENT TO THE JAMAICAN FERNS. 
strong, erect, scaly at the base, 12 or more inches long; frond be 
2 feet long, 9-12 inches wide, covered with dense, very minute, 
quite reaching the apex, little nearer the edge than midvein ; invo- 
lucre fugacions, No. 51, Herb. Kew, 1877 
N odium Grisebachii, Baker. 
185*, Nersropivm (Eunephrodium) samarcense, Baker MSS., 0.sp. 
Caudex strong, erect; stipes ceespitose, slightly scaly at the base, 6 inches 
long, ot be tac stellate puberule ; fron anceolate, 12-18 inches 
-6 inches wide; pinne close, sessile, subsessile, or petiolate, 
f “3k inches ln, zs inch broad, subentire, acute, or bluntish, 
eut $-3 d o the costa into equal or unequal, obtuse, or 
nce acute, saath segments, with a subreflexed edge, appear- 
ing on the upper side as with a thickened margin, lower reduced and 
reflexed ; surface greyish and more or less puberulous with stellate 
dows, and subscabrous throughout; texture firm, subchartaceous ; 
8 
it upwards; indusium small, clothed with stellate puberule. No. 
19, Herb. Kew, 1876. 
Nephrodium venustum, J. Sm. 
N. guadalupense, Fée. 
Polypodium jungermannioides, Klotzsch. 
P. Jamesoni, Hoo, 
to 
ceous ; coloured beneath; rachises stiff, m = procinink 3 on 
the tise iit threadlike, ered sesaly eee: "clothed with few 
