ON THE JAMAICA FERNS OF SLOANE’S HERBARIUM. es 
Aspidium macrophyllum Swartz, var. pilosum. 
50. Filix minor, &c,, Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 87, Herb. p. 98.—Cardiochlena 
pilosa Fée. 
Gymnogramma trifoliata Desv. 
51. Phyllitis ramosa trifida, &c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 88, tab. 45, fig. 2, Herbs 
p. 99 -—Acrostichum trifoliatum Linn. 
L hai volubile Swartz. 
2. Phyllitidi multifide, &c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p- 88, tab. 46, fig. 1, Herb. 
pp. 01 and 102. 0; iolopialeli volubile Linn.— Ple entifully on. Mount Diablo, 
Archer’s Ridge, &c., in Mountain River Plantetions.” 
LIygodium venustum Swartz. 
3. Phyllitidi multifide oan Mr c., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 88, Herb. p. 
Ophioglossum se andens Linn.—‘‘ In a wood near Capt. Heywood’s House, in St. 
Maries in the North ei 2% the e Island.” This was not collected again in Jamaica 
till a few posed ago, when it appeared with a few specimens sent me by Mrs 
Richmond, wife of the ‘Duala Engineer, who gathered ei in the vicinity of 
Spanish ros. 
Davallia (Saccoloma) Sloanet Jenman. 
54. Filix non ramosa maxima, &e., Cat. p. 19; Hist. p. 89, tab. 47, Herb. 
- 102. Pteris Sloanei Radd.—As Raddi’s identification was merely a guess 
or more, near 
alternate, obliquely spreading, 3—5 in. apart from base 2 ee the upper ones 
ligulate, subentire, sessile; the lower petiolate, fully pinn at the base, above 
this pinnatifid almost to the costa; 10—15 in. long, 36 in - wide. ; suddenly 
reduced in the outer third to 1 in. width, ligulate goon arhich is broadly 
and roundly lo — within, the lobes passing outwards through sinuation of the 
margin a the serru p Pinnula alt conte: "tia late, 
3—4 in. long, $43 in. — ies and, except the lower one or r two, fully 
adnate pa connected by a brane, with a broad sinus, rounded 
on the Upper seo pee er on a Sb loner; side, }—4 in in: wide between ; basal 
uced. 
beset on each side with Pinne [pinnule] Palich teatatey vg more or lon 
n 
green colour, ge having its = lying in 8 ferruginous Line or Wel —- 
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P. 669). 
