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chartaceous; colour dark clear green above, paler beneath; upper 
. surface naked, under subtomentose and glandulose, the vestiture 
e in t i 
rusty or ferruginous. Veins pinnate and forked in the pinnule o 
the smaller Pees ; in the larger, pinnate in the lobules or teeth of 
the pinnule. Sori reaching half-way to the margin from the mid- 
rib, few or several venapne —It is with much reluctance I venture to 
introduce a new name to the radicans group of Asplenia, si I have 
failed to match this at - Kew and British Museum Herbaria, or in 
books. It comes nearest the least divided states of A. Kloteschii 
Mett., and is quite distinct from any of the several Jamaican states 
of A. radicans feces nas appear be pe two forms. 
runneo-viri . sp.— Rootstock gat: erect, the crown 
clothed with pe ale. Stipites eee strong, erect, brown, 
clothed at the base like the rootstock, 2-8 ft. long. Fronds ample, 
erecto-spreading, 3-4 ft. o tang, 2-8 ft. wide, Pears gar aay 
deeper on the lower side. # numerous, contiguous, alternate, 
not sessile, about the same ees as the pinne, the acuminate 
point serrate, 84-5 in. | , 14-1} in. wide; lary segmen 
taceous, pellucid ; surfaces, excep on the a. naked, light green. 
achis and coste wood-brown or darker, eal ¢ anne er costee 
maa costule margined with fat membranous wings, and fibrillose 
with ll brown scales. Veins pinnate ; bcmtaice cuepie: Bal 2-3 
aside. Sori copious, ++} 1. long, the lowest anterior one on eac 
lobe double ; involueres ample, tumid, pale brown.—A larger plant 
than 4. Wilsont Baker and A. sandwichianum Mett., to both of which 
it is sey a 
pee Taylorianum, n.sp. — Rootstock and stipites 
not seen. Fronds ample, tripinnatifid, 24-3 ft. lo 08 2 ft. wide, 
k , rather membrano-chartaceous, glabrou glossy, 
except the coste and costule, which are slightly Aicilloee and 
cbvarvies scaly beneath or in the axils. ss spreading or 
conspicuously so in the outer 
simple, or the lowest anterior mee sometimes forked, “4-5 toa side. 
Sori short, nearer the midrib than margin, about 4 1. long, 3-4 to 
each side of the segments. Involucres vaulted. — Of local species 
this comes next 4. nek Jenman, from which it differs by its 
er texture, sessile pinnule, conspicuously 
dentated final parts, the teeth of which are rather obt d the 
very short sori. I have this species in memory of, the 
