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longer, deciduous hairs are different. I refer hereto two more specimens leg. RIEDEL, 
without locality (Rg) and, MEeNnponga, no. 1376, Friburgo (B), which agree in texture 
and cutting, but they lack the short hairs on rachis and underside, thus approaching 
D. Karsteniana. 
342. Dryopteris adenopteris n. sp. — Fig. 18. 
Syn. Neprodium villosum Lindman, Ark. f. Bot. 1: 
226. 1903, non Presl. 
Dryopteris villosa var. tomentosa Rosenst. Hedwigia 
46: 130. 1916 
Type from South Brazil, leg. LinpMAN no. A 
1313 (Rg). : 
Species valde distincta, pulcherrima, D. amplae 
proxime similis differt: lamina longius pubescente et 
dense glandulosa, parcissime squamosa, soris margini - 
approximatis. »Planta gigantea, acaulis, frondibus usque 
4 m longis« (Lindman). — Rhizomate erecto, apice 
ut basi stipitum squamis linearibus rufescentibus nitidis 
textura iis D. amplae similibus sed paucioribus vestito. 
Stipitibus fusco-stramineis, sursum parce squamosis, 
mox glabris. Lamina ovato-deltoidea, 1—2 m longa, 
gramineo-vel saepe luteo-virescente, firmiter herbacea, 
basi quadripinnatifida, medio tripinnatifida. Pinnis 
basalibus deorsum basi auctis, mediis oblongis, ad 40 cm 
longis, stipitatis, acuminatis. Pinnulis inter se 3 cm € 
distantibus, breviter petiolatis, superioribus adnato- DOUwr Se es 
dectrrentibus: -oblongis, breve acuminatis, ad 10 em 
Stage leat ves latis, a hiconcass semen hioubdacs pana ee he ee 
parum obliquis, subacutis vel potius | oiary pinn RT, sans 
subobtusis, 3—4 mm latis, basali posteriore parum pinna from = underside and 
reducta, regulariter crenatis vel inferioribus profundius — two-others from a superior pinna 
lobatis, lobis rotundatis. Venis parum  conspicuis, from the upperside, < 2. 
Simplicibus fureatisve, marginem vix attingentibus. 
Squamis rachis costarumque perpaucis, tenuissimis, minutis, luteis. Lamina utrinque 
dense et minute glandulosa, imprimis ad paginam inferiorem, supra ubique pilis 
brevibus hirtella, subtus minute ac dense puberula. Soris margini approximatis, 
saepe luteo-brunneis; indusiis minutis, glandulosis, setosis. 
Fig. 15. 2, adenopteris C. Chr. 
This new species is a most interesting novelty, the right systematical position 
of which it is difficult to fix with certainty. It is as to several characters intermediate 
between the groups of D. ampla and D. subincisa. In general habit and colour it 
