108 _ 
A critical and apparently very rare form, of which I have seen only two 
specimens of the type-collection. Its position is uncertain, and only eventual addi- 
tional specimens may settle the question, whether it is a valid species or a_ variety 
of D. lurida, under which I place it. As to shape and division of lamina it is nearly 
exactly identical with D.lurida and also in most other characters; it differs by its 
very numerous long hairs on both surfaces, and by its exindusiate sori; at least 
no indusium is found. 
Cuba orient. WricuT nr. 1054 (B, Kew.). 
356. Dryopteris ochropteroides (Baker) C. Chr. Ind. 280. 1905. — Fig. 24. 
Syn. Nephrodium ochropteroides Bak. Ann. of Bot. 5: 325. 1891; Jenm. Bull. 
Bot. Dept. Jamaica n. s. 3: 110. 1896; W. Ind. and Guiana Ferns 224. 
Nephrodium popayanense Hieron. Engl. Jahrb. 34: 447. 1904. 
Dryopteris popayanensis C. Chr. Ind. 285. 1905. 
Type from Jamaica: Fox’s gap, Hart 1886 (Kew!). 
Rhizome shortly creeping, about 1 em thick, densely 
7) clothed with brown, glossy, lanceolate, long acuminate, 
‘eRe entire scales, 1—2 cm long. Stipe 50 cm or more long, 
‘a downwards densely paleaceous and lanose by soft, long, 
ae pluricellular hairs, upwards sparsely scaly, the scales 
Opp a” deciduous and leaving small, raised scars, the stipe 
Saye) ay becoming muricate. Lamina deltoid, up to 50 cm or more 
Bae ae long and broad, 4-pinnate—5-pinnatifid, coriaceous, 
eels Ey grey-green, without glands but rachises IJ—III beneath 
= Rg (ger densely pubescent by whitish or brownish, patent- and 
By PA oo eae crisped, pluricellular, long hairs, above, like rachis I, 
Sin xf jeer narrowly channelled with shorter hairs in 
oy se et : 4, ; the channels, otherwise glabrous. Shape 
. i Lee ie i. ees as _ of pinnules and segments about as in D. 
: pee Le effusa, but rachises II—III not winged: 
WES La ultimate segments or lobes acute or very 
; : sy e See shortly mucronulate. Sori covered by large, 
reniform, subpersistent, sparsely ciliate 
2 indusia. 
Somewhat like D. effusa var. divergens, 
but very distinct by its coriaceous, grey- 
- green, not gemmiferous lamina of ana- 
dromous division without glands and cylindrical hairs, by its large indusia and 
by its dense pubescence of long hairs of the rachises beneath, by which last 
Fig. 24. D. ochropteroides (Bak.) C. Chr. Basal 
_ secondary pinnule of a middle pinna, nat. size. 
