FILICES. 685 



Leaf 6"-8" bug, 14"-2" broad.— Hab. Jamaica I, Vd., Shepherd; [Guadeloupe ! ; Mexico 1 

 to Brazil 1], 



** Leaf pinnatisect-%-^nnatisect ; son extending to or heyond the middle. 



t Yeins alternately dichotomous, lowest penultimate ones on the inferior side of the }ii ; 



leaf stout, pinnaiisect. 



215. A. celtidifolium, Metten. Leaf pinnatisect : segments ohlong -lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, truncate at the equal hase, subsinuate-repand, horizontal : veins dichotomous, 



fertile at the inferior, anterior, and posterior tranches ; sori linear, distant about half- 

 way from the margin, 3 inferior approaching the midrib, mostly double. — Metten. Fil. Lips, 

 t. 13./. 3. 4: a leaf-segment, distinguished from our form by a serrulate margin. — Bipla- 

 zium, Kze. — "Stem 3' high, inclined to be arborescent" (td.); segments 4!'-5" long, 1" 

 broad. — Hab. Jamaica!, Maif., Pd.; Trinidad!, Pd. ; [Venezuela!, New Granada!; 

 Brazil]. 



216. A. grandifolium, £'». Leaf fiinnaliseot : segments oblong-lanceolate, shortfy 

 acuminate, rounded-suUmncate at the equal base, repand or crenate : veins dichotomous, 



fertile at the anterior and posterior distant branches ; sori linear, extending to a small dis- 

 tance from the margin, anterior inferior approaching the midrib, double, superior simple, 

 distant from the midrib. — Metten. Asplen. t. 5.y. 3 ; part of a segment. — Hemionitis, Su>. 

 Diplazium, Sw. — Proportions of the leaf as in the preceding, but "petiole from the root " 

 (Sw.). — Hkb. 3ama\ca.\, Macf., Al, Wils. ; Trinidad!, Woodford; [Cuba! to Brazil!]. 



tf Veins forked-dichotomous or pinnately divided, free, lowest all on the superior side of 

 their rib ; leaf pinnaiisect. 



217. A. juglaudifolium, Lam. {non Soolc). Leaf pianatisect : segments oilong- 

 lanceolate or lauceolate-oblong, shortly acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, repand- 

 entire or serrulate above : veins dichotomous in the terminal, most 3-pai'tite in the lateral 

 segments, y«rfe7e at the anterior inferior (rarely also at the posterior) branches ; sori liuear, 

 intermediate between the midrib and margin, all or inferior approaching both, inferior of 

 the terminal segment double, those of the lateral segments simple. — SI. t. 37. Schk. Crypt, 

 t. 85. dextr. — From Hooker's homonym I exclade Sloane's figure : for its sori (all anterior 

 and double) do not extend to near the margin, and the penultimate lowest veins are at the 

 inferior side of their rib (Pendl. PI. Venez. 498, Spruce, PI. Ecuad. 5337 - A.Fendlerianum, 

 Gr.^. — Biplazinm, Sw. A. Ecemerianum, Kze. — Stout; segments 6"-8"(-4") long, 2"- 

 li"(-l") broad.— Hab. Jamaica!, Wils.; [Cuba!, Wr. 1037, to Peru!]. 



218. A. semihastatum, Kne. Leaf pinnatisect : segments lanceolate or ovate-Ian- • 

 ceolate, bluntish, upwards auricled at the cuneate base, serrulate or pinnatifld-pinnatipartite 

 below : veins forked above, superior simple, lowest piunately divided, fertile at the anterior, 

 in the auricle also at the posterior branches ; sori linear, intermediate between the midrib 

 and margin, distant from both, inferior (or few) double.— i/e««n. Asplen. t. 4. /. 17. 18 ; 

 leaf-segments. Hook. Spec. t. 207. — A. cubense. Hook. I A. hymenodes, Metten. {I. c. t. 

 5./. 18. 19) : the form with broader, blunt, towards the base divided segments. Diplazium 

 angastifrons, Pr.—V-2! high ; segments l''(-2'0 long.— Hab. Jamaica (A'w.) ; [Cuba !]. 



319. A. auriculatum, Metten. {non Sw.). Leaf pinnatisect : segments lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or bluntish, upward auricled at the obliquely cuneate base, 

 sinuate or slightly pinnatifid to one-fourth: lobes dentate-serrulate: veins dichotomous,- 

 fertile at the lowest anterior, in the auricle also at the posterior branches ; sori linear, ap- 

 proaching the midrib at their base, distant from the margin, inferior (or few) double. — 

 Diplazium Kaulf. A. arboreum, W. sec. Kaulf. : but not arboreous. Hook. I {ex Wr. 

 Cub. 1034).— li'-2' high ; segments 3"-4" long, 8"'-13"' broad.— Hab. Jamaica !, a!l SOU. ; 

 S. Vincent!, GuH^.; [Cuba! "to Brazil]. 

 y^ 220 A. Shepherdi, Spreng. Leaf pinnatisect : segments oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 ^ nate inferior pimiatifid to the middle: lobes ovate, bluntish, appressed-serrulate, gradually 

 decrescent and, passing into serratures in the superior segments: vemlets yimn&te, mosi 

 forked above anterior inferior or most fertile; son linear, inferior approaching the midrib 

 at their base, all distant from the margin, inferior in the superior segments (or few) double. 



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