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A NEW TREE FERN FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.RB.S. 
In a small collection of ferns made lately by Mr. J. H. Har 
of the Jamaica Forest Department, in a tr rip to Lees lagoon of 
Jae is the following wells sated new species : 
Hemitelia (Ampxicosmia) Hartii, Baker, n. sp. — Stipe 14 ft. 
long, fa, channelled down the face, armed thro Shoat with 
with large lanceolate acuminate glossy brown pale amina 
deltoid, tripinnatifid, moderately firm in texture, green and 
glabrous on both. surfaces. Pinne oblong-lanceolate, 1-1} ft. long, 
3- % in. road. Pinnules lanceolate, close, sessile, 2-24 in. long, 
fs) in 
of it.—Chiri riqui lagoon, Ha ‘BI Allied to H. madtifora B R. Br. 
(H. guianensis Hook. ). 
A NEW 2CHMEA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
4échmea (Piarymcumea) chiriquensis, n. sp.—Acaulescent. 
Leaves 5-6, in a dense rosette ; dilated base ohicns. 8-4 in. long ; 
lamina lanceolate, a foot or less long, an inch broad, tapering to 
the point, thin and flexible, armed on the margin with spreading 
rather hooked, horny prickles, at most a line long. Peduncle 
slender, shorter than the leaves, furnished at the top with 3-4 
spreading bright red scariose serrated bract leaves. Inflorescence 
two distichous oblong spikes 1-2 in. long; flowers -6 on a side, 
ract }in. long. O 
just as long as the bract; sepals lanceolate- ‘deltoid, coriaceous, 
with a small ste cusp, as long as _ adap a ee 
st 
Shorter than the petals. —Chiriqui aeons tat 17: 3! A. very 
distinct novelty, nearest i. tillandsivides and vriesicides Baker, in 
Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 184. 
