8 



Venetia. — "For propagating plants seed is sown in spring such plants require to be grafted 



later but oftener by the insertion of a bud or some thrifty shoot from one of the lower branches." 



p. 618. 



Spain : Western Andalusia — "The general mode of propagation is by cuttings In Valencia 



however, grafting or budding is resorted to." p. 670. 



Malaga. — Orange "trees are seedlings from sour orange seeds transplanted at one year old and 

 grafted the next year." p. 687. 



Asia Minor : Mitylene. — "the orange and lemon trees here are budded or grafted." p. 751. 



South Australia. — "We graft or bud." p. 812. 



Morocco, — "They (orange trees) are propagated from seeds, inarching, grafting, budding, and by 

 cuttings." p, 815. 



Florida. — "The best example of an orange grove is the fine grove of Mr. E. H. Hart at 



Federal point. This grove is of the choicest 'budded' varieties." (Report on Tropical and Semi-Tro- 

 pical Fruits in the United States, 1887. p. 60.) 



FERNS : SYNOPTICAL LIST.— XXIII. 



Synoptical List, with descriptions of the Ferns and Fern-Allies of Jamaica, by O. 8. Jenman, Superin' 

 tendent Botanical Gardens, Demerara, ( continued from Bulletin No. j^7.) 



16. Asplenium hastatum, Klotzch. — Rootstock small, fibrous, finely scaly, erect or oblique, stipites 

 tufted, 4-7in. 1. channelled, naked above the finely scaly base ; fronds pinnate, 8-12in. 1. 2-^\m. w, 

 naked, dark green, chartaceous, truncate at the base, the apex terminated by a linear distantly inciso- 

 lobate segment l-2in. 1, pinna; horizontal, ^in. less or more, apart but not distant, shortly stipitate, 

 tapering, acuminate-bluntish, shortly cut away on the underside of the base, upper expanded auricled 

 and subcordate, margins bilobate-dentate, the teeth irregular, rounded and deep, about 1 li. w., veins 

 pinnate, forked, flabellate in the basal auricle ; sori on the outer branch, oblique, 1|-2| li. 1. distant 

 from the margin. — Hook. Sp. Fil vol, 3. t. 172. 



Infrequent on rocks and trees of Portland from 2,000-4,000ft. alt. Quite intermediate in its 

 general characters between auriculatum and ^j^eropt/s, but stifier and more upright of fronds than 

 either ; and with much shorter fronds and fewer, though somewhat conform, pinna; than in the latter 



17. A. pteropus, Kaulf. — Rootstock short, erect, finely scaly ; stipites cajspitose, 2-4in. 1. mar- 

 gined, naked, except the minute scales at the base, gray-green ; rachis similar, narrowly-winged 

 throughout ; fronds pinnate, l-2ft. 1. 2-3in. av. light green, herbaceous, naked, a little reduced toward 

 the base, passing abruptly or not at the apex into a linear attenuated lobate segment l-2in. 1. and 4-5 

 li. w., shortly cut away on the inferior side at the base, the upper side expanded, acute or acuminate at 

 tbo point, the margins evenly serrated with oblique blunt teeth ^ li. w. which are evanescent in the 

 acuminate or attenuated outer part ; veins pinnate, simple, except the interior one at the superior base, 

 which is 2-3 times forked : sori copious, oblique, 1-1^ li. 1. 8-12 on either side, near the midvein and 

 distant from the margins ; involucres thin, pale, the open edge curved. — Hook, Sp. Fil vol. 3. t. 177. 



Very common from 2,000-4,000 ft. alt. on rocks and trees on the banks of streams and other wet 

 situations in moist forests. A much more slender plant, smaller in all its parte, with the rachis less 

 winged with membrane than alatum, which in habit and in situations of growth it resembles. The 

 pinnae, which are 30 or more to a side, resemble most those of harpeodes and lunu^atum, the fronds 

 however, being more weakly and differing much in other features from either. 



18. A. alatum., H. B. K. — Eootstock erect, with strong, wiry, descending roots ; stipites cajapitose, 4- 

 7in. 1. compressed broadly or narrowly winged, naked ; fronds pinnate, lanceolate-oblong, l-l:^ft, 1. 2- 

 5in. w. thin, glabrous, dark green, little if at all reduced at the base, no terminal segment, the con- 

 spicuously winged rachis, extending an inch beyond and rooting at the apex ; pinnae numerous, hori- 

 zontal, apart or subdistant, l^-2^in. 1. ^-Jin. w, subsessile, base equal-sided, cuneate-rounded, point 

 blunlisb, margins bideutate, teeth appressed ; veins pinnate, forked ; sori oblique, 2-4 li. 1. near the 

 roid'ib but much short of the margin ; involucres narrow, finally concealed. — Hook and Grev. Icon. 

 Fil. t. 137. 



Abundant on wet rocks and banks by rivers and in the beds of streams in wet forests at 4,000- 

 5 000ft. alt. ; distinguished by its broadly winged rachis, projecting beyond the pinnae at the top of 

 the frond, and by the numerous equilateral, blunt pinnse. The habit is rather weakly, the fronds 

 cuiving gracefully outwards, the end eventually rooting in the ground. 



19. A. hetum, Swai lz. — Rootstock oblique, shortly repent, dark, fibrillose ; stipites tufted, few or 

 many, 2-6in. 1. light or dark, channelled, naked ; rachis similar, but rather compressed and margined 

 above ; fronds pinnate, lanceolate-oblong, base usually truncate, chartaceous, cloudy-green naked, 6-10 

 j,,^ )^ ]i_2^in. w.; pinna; numerous, spreading, usually close, subdimidiate, the inferior slightly 

 stipitate the superior slightly adnate-decurrent, passing gradually into the acuminate lobate-serrate 

 apex, 1-l^in. 1. 3-5 li. w. rounded, blunt or acute, the inferior side cut away at the base in a curved or 

 straio^ht line, from which point the outer part is up-curved, superior base truncate, deep, but not auri- 

 cled, uj per and outer margins serrulate or duplicate-serrulate, the teeth blunt and \\\. w,; veins pin- 

 nate, very oblique, simple and forked ; sori 1^-3 li. 1. slender medial ; involucres pale, narrow. — Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. vol. 3. t. 173. 



Common on wet rocks in forests and on the banks of shaded streams from low levels up to 4,000ft. 

 alt." easily recognized by the subdimidiate pinna;, which are deep on the upper side, quite cut away 

 within on the under, beyond which, below the midvein, is very narrow. There are two local forms; 

 that at the lower elevation has fewer fronds, rarely more than 1-2 full grown, with blunter pinnso, 

 rather thicker texture and more of the veins forked ; while in the other, which is larger, the fronds are 

 pumerouB and the raohisee etiffer and dark brown, 



