270 © SOME ADDITIONAL JAMAICA FERNS. 
Miss Fanny Hope Taylor, who in the years 1852-4 made an excel- 
lent collection of ferns in Jamaica, which included among other 
rare species the now well-known and beautiful Gymnogramma schizo- 
phylla—a species only rediscovered where she found it, and named, 
over twenty years later 
Aspidium dissectum ; 
Nephrodium sanctum Baker, var. magnum. — Fronds a foot or 
more long, 8-4 in. wi inne contiguous or apart, 2 in. long, 
5 1. wide, subequilateral, fully pinnate within, beyond that pim- 
natifid on both sides to the acuminate point. Involucres evident, 
ciliate-—This forms a passage into the conterminum group. 
Nephrodi caribeum, n. sp. — Stipites densely tufted, 
slender, erect, light brown, slightly scaly at the base, 2-4 in. long, 
slightly channelled, puberulous. Fronds erect, 14-14 
i indli tri 
ell Pinne spreading, sessile, contiguous or more or less apart, 
broadest at the base, from whence they taper to the acuminate 
serrato-entir ong, 4— e, subequilateral, uni- 
e point, 2 in. long, 
formly deeply pinnatifid, or the very base fully pinnate. Segments 
inear-oblong, close, except the enlarged basal pair, which are 
nearly or quite free, 3-1 1. wide, 2 1. long (the basal ones 8 1.). 
r 
- Sori medial, copious. Involucres evident, ciliate. 
termediate between the large variety of N. sanctum and N. 
Nockianum. ce 
N. Nockianum, n. sp. — Rootstock small, erect ; stipites 
tufted, erect, very slender, brownish, 4-6 in. long, channelled, 
2-1 1. wide. Rachis very slender, finely greyish or rusty pubescent, 
channelled. Coste similar. Surfaces glabrous or the upper —_— 
prey ve dark 
rim: r rather nearer the margin. Invo ucres 
veloped, ciliate.—A slender, thin, very pellucid plant belonging to 
the conterminum group. 
N. rigidulum Baker ? : 
i N. paucijugum, n. sp.— Rootstock thick as a quill, hori- 
__ Rontally repent, the growing point in advance of the petioles, and 
