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other four. To judge from the dried specimens, S. muticum is rather a 
showy free flowering species, and likely to prove a useful plant for 
summer ng. 
68. Aniba perutilis, Hemsl. [ Lauracez | ; ramulis ultimis graciliusculis, 
riaceis adultis glabris subtus glaucis vel opacis supra vix nitidis lanceolatis 
vel oblanceolatis obtusissimis vel rotundatis basi cuneatis, venis primariis 
utrinque circiter 7-9 inconspicuis, edge incrassatis, inflorescentiz 
ramulis pubesce diss perianthii pubescentis lobis crassis brevissimis 
rotundatis, tubo intus villoso, antheris bilocellatis, ovario glabro, bacca 
matura elitpsotdoó-coflicn basi fere truncata perianthii tubo valde 
inerassato corrugato eupuliformi subinclusa 
abitat.—Near Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia, W. Gordon, Esq., 
H.B.M. Vice-Consul (1893). 
Folia cum petiolo circiter semipollicari 21-31 poll. longa. Pedicelli 
9-4 lineas longi. Bacca cum cupula circiter semipollicem longa et 
This is one of two or three species of Laurel bearing the name of 
* Comino" in Colombia, and highly valued there for the excellent timber 
they yield. Antba perutilis is called ** Laurel Comino,” according to 
Mr. Gordon; but the name is not confined to this species, there being 
in the Kew Herbarium a very different species of Aniba ( ( Aydendron), 
the 2,040 of the late Dr. Triana’s collection, from the very same reg gion, 
i» which he gave the name of * Laurel Comino.” ‘Ther als 
“Comino Crespo," referred to in a report (1892) by Mr. qubd Santa 
Maria, Vice-Consal for the United States at Medellin 
69. Trichomanes vestitum, Baker [ Hymenophyllacere]; rhizomate fili- 
formi late repente, stipitibus brevissimis remotis paleis paucis subulatis 
is, 
dapes iin seueitives, indusio sub-cylindrico, ore patulo vix lobato, 
receptaculo incluso 
bitat_—Mount Guding, Sarawak, Borneo, Bishop of Sarawak and 
893). 
Lamina 6-12 lin. longa, 4-6 lin. lata. 
Nearly allied to T. humile and the small forms of 7. pyxidiferum, 
and resembling in habit and vestiture the tropical American pi oni s 
phyllum e sutum 
liciter ppan vapibus pum ipee + brunneis nudis 
_ fertilium longioribus, pinnis sterilibus linearibus obtusis rende basi 
utrinque surculis, inferioribus deflexis sensim minoribus , venis 
_ ereeto-patentibus ema obscuris superioribus simplicibus inferioribus 
: . fureatis, pinnis fertilibus remotioribus multo minori xs us. 
Habitat —Mount Dulit. Sarawak, Borneo, Chas. Hose (1891). = 
Bi E by the Bishop of Sarawak and Singapore in July 1893 a 
vo. 
Lond sterilis 5-6 poll. longa, medio 12-15 lin. neo Ee 1}-2- 
pollicari. Lemina fertilis 8-9 lin, lata, stipite 4-5-pollie: 
A very distinct species, much resembling in Rabie h^ common 
“tropical Asian Aérostichum (Egenolfia) MR Sat AE 
