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sale on the above terms. These lands are situated in the black grounds 

 of the Parish of Trelawny and front on the Main Road leading from 

 Christiana to Ulster Sping. It is proposed to construct a Cart Road 

 starting from the Main Road, and leading through those lands into the 

 Parish of St. Ann. Each lot offered for sale will front either on the 

 present Main Koad or on the new Cart Road. It is proposed to estab- 

 lish a Model Farm either on, or in the immediate vicinity of these lands. 



A plan of the Lots and proposed Road may be seen at the Surveyor 

 General's Office. Lots fronting om the present Main Ro d will be sold 

 at from £3 to £4 per acre. Lots fronting on new Cart Road wil be 

 sold at from £1 to £2 per acre. These lands may be seen on applica- 

 tion to A. A. Carter, Govt. Bailiff, Troy, Balaclava P.O. 



Copies of the Rules may be obtained from the Bailiff or from the 

 Surveyor General's Office. 



As soon as not less than 10 applicants come forward and pay their 

 deposit money surveys will be made of their various lots, but no survey 

 will be undertaken for a single applicant. 



FERNS: SYNOPTICAL LIST— XXXVII. 



Synoptical List, tcith descriptions , of the Ferns and Fern- Allies of Ja- 

 maica. By G. S. Jenman, Superintendent Botanical Gardens, 

 Demerara. 



33. Nephrodiam strigosum, Jenm. — Rootstock small, scaly, fibrous ; 

 stipites very short or membraned to the base, puberulous ; fronds freely 

 tufted, 3-15 i , 1. in. w. tapering downwards to the rootstock, of 

 two kinds, • barren and fertile ; the latter elongate-lanceolate stiffly 

 erect and viviparous at the retuse apex, the latter ligulate acuminate 

 reduced forming a prostrate spreading rosette at the base of the former, 

 both serrate-lobate, coriiceous, harsh, dark gieen, under surface on ribs 

 and veins grey puberulous ; lobes deltoid or rounded or obtusely pointed 

 shallowly or deeply cut, 1-2 J li, w., 1^-6 or 8 li. d. very close, veins pin- 

 nate, raised and obtrusive beneath simple or rarely forked, the opposite 

 ones below the acutely sharp sinus united, those above free ; sori medial ; 

 involucres distinct, coidate puberulous —Fee. Fil. Ant. tab. 15. fig. 1. 



In woods of the lower hill sides, gathered in the western parishes 

 Fee's figure is a quite exact representation of the erect fertile fionds 

 but does not show the spreading prostrate, rosette-like diminuated bar- 

 ren ones. 



34. N. incisum, Baker. — Rootstock erect, fibrous ; stipites tufted, 

 erect, 1-3 in. 1. the base a little scaly ; fronds erect, lobed or subpinna- 

 tifid, a span to 1 ft. 1. I J— lj in tnpering at the base through dwin- 

 dling decurrent rounded scallop-like lobes, and similarly upwards to 

 the acuminate lobate-ei.tire apex, subcoriaceous, dull green, naked or 

 the rachis puberulous cut J-J way down to the rachis, the incisions 

 forming a sharp sinus between ; lobes 3-4 li. w and 1. obtu>e or rounded : 

 veins pinnate, simple or forked, opposite ones below the sinus uniting, 

 those above free; >or\ medial involucres cordate, fugaeious — Hi. Fil. t. 

 91. N. stenoptens, Hook, Aspidium, Kze. Po ypodium, Swartz. 



This I have not seen, but it is ascribed to Jamaica by Grisebach on 

 the authoriiy of a specimen gathered by Macfayden, which I suspoct 

 belongs to the next species, though he quotes Plumier's figure, the two 



