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like tKe stipites ; veins obscure, very close, forked and simple ; fertile 

 fronds Jrd in. w., on much longer stipites. — A. ruhiginosum, Fee. 



Common on open banks from 3,000-5,000 ft. alt. The scales of the 

 upperside are a pale silvery gray, fine and lightly fimbriate-edged but 

 not stellate, eventually deciduous leaving the surface nearly bare. 

 Those beneath form very minute scattered stellate reddish-brown cilise, 

 smaller than in any of its allies which also are more or less deciduous. 

 When naked, though larger and firmer, the species most resembles 

 viscosum. 



14. A. auricomum, Kunze — Rootstock very shortly repent, densely 

 clothed with bright dark-brown ciliate-edged scales ; stipites 

 tufted or sub-tufted, several, 1^-24 in. or more 1., freely clothed with 

 spreading, very ciliate, ferruginous scales ; fronds pendent, -J- 1 ft. 1. J 

 - I in. w. tapering both ways nearly equally, the apex acuminate or 

 acute, even or repand margined, thin, membrano-chartaceous, rusty 

 green, both surfaces sprinkled with dark-brown long-ciliated minute 

 scales, those on the upperside reduced to stellate hairs ; rachis slender, 

 clothed like the stems ; veins simple and forked, f-1 li. apart ; fertile 

 fronds smaller, on rather longer stipites. — A. acummans, Fee. 



Infrequent on the sides of rocks in open or shaded situations at 2,000- 

 3,000 ft. alt. ; gathered in the coffee fields above Mount Moses, St. 

 Andrew. As locally represented this is a smaller species than the 

 next, of thinner texture, and much less and finer vestiture. In vestiture 

 the Guiana specimens quite agree, but they are larger. The species is 

 however very variable m siae. 



CONTRIBUTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



LlBRART. 



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Trop. Agriculturist Nov. & Dec. 1897. Jan. 1898. [Purchased.] 



Sugar Cane. Feb. 1898. [Editor.] 



Pharm. Journal Jan. & Feb. 1898. 



W. I. & Com. Advertiser. Feb. 1898. [Editor.] 



Chemist & Druggist. Jan. & Feb. 1898. [Editor.] 



Quarterly Record, Roy. Bot. Soc, London. July — Dec. 1897. [Secretary.] 

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 Botanical Gazette. Feb. 1898. [Editor.] 

 British Trade Journal. Feb., 1898. [Editor.] 



Agr. Ledger. Nos. 9-11-13. 1617.1897. [Supt. Govt. Print. Calcutta.] 



Gardener's Chronicle. Feb. 1898. [Purchased.] 



Agr. Gazette, N. S. Wales. Dec. 1897. [Dept. of Agr.] 



Sugar Journal. Dec. 1897. [Editor.] 



Agr. Journ. Cape of Good Hope. Jan. 1898. [Dep. of Agr.] 

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 American Journ. of Pharm. Feb. 1898. [Editor.] 

 Farmers Bulletin U. S. Dept. of Agr. [Secretary.] 



New Natal Plants Jour. I & II. extr. Journ. Bot. 1897. By J. W. Wood [Author]. 



Eip, Station Reci'rd. [Director.] 



Eclectic Medical Journ. Aug. 1897. [Editor.] 



Queensland Agr, Journ. Jan. 1898. [Director.] 



Times of Ceylon, Jan. & Feb. 1898. [Editor.] 



