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Plentiful from the lowlands up to 4,000 ft. altitude, twining and 

 ascending trees 20-30 ft. high ; variable in the length of the sporangife- 

 rous spikes, and in the presence or absence of the pair of auricles, lobes 

 or segments at the baae of pinnules, which however are usually more or 

 less developed in the basal pair, and often petiolate. In this character 

 it shows close affinity with vennstum. 



2. L. venustum, Swartz. Rootstock short, clothed with dark tomen- 

 tum : stipites tufted, slender erect 1-2 ft. 1. brownish ; fronds bitripin- 

 nate, twining several or many feet high, pellucid, chartaceous, light 

 green, pubescent, the rachis flexuose ; pinnae in numerous opposite sub- 

 distant pairs, petioled, with a terminal pinnule and several (lr-7) alter- 

 nate spreading lateral ones 1^-4 or 5 in. 1. Jrd-J in. w. stipitate, the 

 base cordate and expanded on each side into auricles, furcate lobes, or 

 fully separate pinnules, margines serrulate ; costse straight or flexuose, 

 light brown or stramineous, margined on the face, pubescent ; veins re- 

 peatedly forked, or fascicled, evident ; spikes not numerous, generally 

 confined to the inner half or two-thirds of the pinnule, surrounding the 

 auricles, but occasionally reaching nearly to the end, 1-5 li. 1. pubes- 

 cent; 4-16 in a series. — PL Fil. t. 92. 81. Herb. p. 100. L. polymor- 

 phum H. B. K. Oj^hioglossum scandens. Linn. 



Much less common than volubile, gathered in the Spanish Town dis- 

 tricts. It is distinguished by the generally pubescent surfaces, narower 

 and more numerous pinnules, with a distinct terminal one, nearly all of 

 which are much expanded hastately the auricles with a furcate tenden- 

 cy. The barren pinnules are often tripartite the central segment much 

 the longest, and the lateral ones furcate. 



ADDITONS AND CONTRIBUTONS. 



May. 

 Library. 

 Botanical Magazine. May [Purchased.] 

 British Trade Journal. May. [Editor.] 

 Chemist & Druggist. Apr. 9 to 30. [Editor.] 

 Garden. Apr. 9 to 30. [Purchased.] 

 Hooker's Icones Plantarum. Apr. [Bentham Trustees.] 

 Journal of Botany. May. [Purchased.] 

 Journal, Royal Horticultural Society. 

 Journal, R. Colonial Institute. Report for 3897. 

 Nature. Apr. 7 to 28. [Editor.] 

 Pharmaceutical Journal. Apr. 9 to 30. [Editor.] 

 Sugar. Apr. 16. [Editor.] 

 Sugar Cane. May [Editor.] 

 W. I. & Com. Advertiser. May. [Editor.] 



Sucrerie Indigene et Coloniale. Apr. 12, 18, 26. May. 3. [Editor.] 

 Tropenpiianzer. May, [Editor.] 

 Palermo Bol. Ort. Bot. Dec. 1897. 



Bulletin de L'Herbier Boissier. May. [Conservateur.] 



Algologiska Bidrag. Uobereinige Algen aus Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto-Rico. Bot. 



Notis. 1887. Af. G. Lagerheim. 

 Agr. Ledger. 1897. No. 19. [Supt. Govt. Print. Calcutta.] 

 Madras, Agr. Hort. Soc. Oct.-Dec. 1897. [Superintendent.] 

 Times of Ceylon. Mar. 17-31. Apr. 6. 14. [Editor.] 



Tropical Agriculturist. Apr. ^ 

 Queensland Agr. Journal. Mar. [Secy. Agr.] ^ 

 Sugar Journal. Mar. 15. [Editor.] 

 Cap© of G. Hope. Agr. Journa!. Mar. 17-31. 



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