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in the lower half of the base, membranaceous, dull grayish-green, 

 pellucid slightly ciliate, rachis channelled, slender, fragile, gray, 

 ciliate or puberulous, midribs similar ; pinnae deeper on the upper side, 

 free but quite sessile, the upper only adnate, 1-1 J in. 1. |ths to fths 

 in. w., deeply cut within to the open but subacute sinuses, passing out- 

 wards through diminishing lobes to the broad, entire point ; margins 

 even, basal lobes of the superior side J— |ths in. 1. 1-2 li. br. oblique, 

 rounded at the end, veins opens, pinnate, simple, forked in the smaller 

 lobes, about 3-4 to a side, very oblique ; sori small, intramarignal, in- 

 volucres delicate, early fugacious. 



Infrequent on open or partly shaded banks from 3,000 ft. altitude 

 upwards. Among the smaller species it is well marked by its broad 

 rounded parts and even uncrenulated margins. 



6. N. rigidulum, Mett.- -Root-stock slender, elongated, paleaceous; 

 stipites tufted, 2-4 in. 1. brown ; fronds bipinnatifid, lanceolate, 12-15 

 or 18 in 1. 3-4 in. w., gradually reduced both up and down, pellucid, 

 chartaceous dark green, ciliate ; rachis gray, puberulous on the costae 

 ribs and margins ; pinnae contiguous, spreading in the lower half hori- 

 zontally, the lower ones reduced gradually to mere deltoid subentire 

 segments central 2 in 1. \ in . w., sessile, acuminate, pinnatifid to 

 within \ a line of the costae, segments linear oblong, oblique, slightly 

 broader at the connected base, point obliquely rounded, 3-4 li. 1. 1-1 J 

 li. w., entire, veins simple, oblique, 6-7 to a side ; sori medial, involu- 

 cres ciliate around the edge. Aspidium, Mett. 



Infrequent in open situations above 3,000 ft. altitude. It is near 

 conterminum, but much more compact, only the lower reduced and 

 subentire pinnae being separated, which however are not more from 

 base to base than those above them, but being reduced and nar- 

 rower they appear so. These are entire, with only a pair of 

 patent lobes at the base, and their uncut character is a conspicuous 

 feature of the fronds. — Cuba. 



CASTLETON GARDENS. 



Visitors to the Gardens may expect to see the following plants in 

 flower or fruit during the month of January: — 



In Flower. 



In Fruit 



A^mherstia nobilis 



Attalea Cohune 



Bauhinia variegata 



Barringtonia Butonica 



Cananga odorata 



Caryocar nuciferum 



Cinnaraomum zeylanicum 



Coffea liberica 



Cocos botryophora 



Dillenia indica 



Coffea liberica 



Diospyros discolor 



Erythrina umbrosa 



Dypsis uiadagascariensis 



Hibiscus elatus 



Hyophorbe Verschaffottii 



Hyophorbe amaricaulis 



Lonchoearpus cyanescens 



Hyophorbe Verschaffeltii 



Myristica fragrans 



Jacaranda filicifolia 



Oreodoxa regia 



Phoenix acauliB 



Pachira aquatica 



Tectona grandis 



Pandanus utilis 



Semecarpus Anacardium 



