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anterior vein, but also 2—5. Indusia large, persistent, “circular, rotundato-reniform, 
glabrous, reddish-brown or dark-brown and impressed at the centre. — Stipes and 
rachis rather densely crinite by similar narrow, dark-brown scales as in D. hirta. 
Surfaces of the typical form not glandulose, along the midribs of both side, most 
densely above, with common Cienitis-hairs, 
beneath with a fair number of red-brown, 
not iridescent scales, which from a bullate 
base are rather suddenly contracted into a 
long hairlike apex. 
The typical form of this distinct spe- 
cies occurs in Sto. Domingo and Porto Rico; 
some of the specimens from the latter island 
differ by having a slightly glandular un- 
derside and nearly black-centred indusia. 
Such specimens could as well be referred 
to var. melanochlamys. — Aspidium setigerum 
Sw. Adnot. 66. 1829, from Sto. Domingo, 
l. PorrEau, is according to the description ay 
probably this species. 
Sto. Domingo: prope Puerto Plata, Loma Isabel SY . we é Ws” 
de la torre, Eacers nr. 1575 (B, CC, H, Kew), NUT \\ 
\ y 
‘ 
2762, 2762 c (B) — Prov. Barahona, Mt. Noche SY} HU VA pe: 
Ww). y Ss 
buena, FurrTes nr. 1043 ( ae . } py : . WH AES 
Porto Rico, Sinrenis nr. 5454 (B pt., not RB), 5885 Nd LOS 
(B, CC, S), 5947 (B, RB), 6111 (B, W), 6325 (B); aN SYM MMMUTA : 
: : igs é / / Tax, 
GuNpbLacH nr. 1396 (B); Hionam nr. 167 (R, at PS AWS 
W), 500 (R); UNpERWoop and Gries nr. 818 (W). i hi WT. LIES 
: Sy 
? Guadeloupe, L’HERMINIeER nr. 20 pt. (B). — Localit 
perhaps false. 
? Grenada, SHERRING, t. Bak. Ann. of Bot. 6: 99. 1892 
with description; Baker identified the specimens : : 
with SInTENIS nr. 5885, still it is probable Fig. 6. D. nemorosa (Willd.) Urb. Basal pinna, 
that it really belongs to D. meridionalis. nat. size, and segments, x 2. 
a 
var. melanochlamys (Fée) 
Syn. Aspidium melanochlamys Fée, Gen. 294. 1850—52; Hook. sp. 4: 35 t. 233 A. 
Polystichum melanochlamys Diels 1899; C. Chr. Ind. 584. 
Dryopteris melanochlamys O. Ktze. 1891; C. Chr. Ind. Suppl. 108. 
Aspidium lomatopelta Kze.; Mett. Aspid. 72. 1858. 
Dryopteris lomatopelta C. Chr. Ind. 275. 1905. oe 
Differs from the type mainly by its glandular under surface, cont-biac 
_ glandulose indusia with brown edges, more numerous scales and more distant and 
: mathem. Afd. 8. Rekke, VI 1. 6 
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