3 1 8 Baker r — A Summary of the new Ferns 
sometimes slightly compound. Veinlets simple, erecto-patent, 
8-io-jugate. Sori small, supramedial. Indusium minute, 
fugacious. Bourbon, D elide, 331. 
17*. N. savaiense, Baker, n. sp. Rootstock rather creeping; pa- 
leae linear, brown. Stipe 6-9 in. long, naked, pilose. Frond 
oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, subcoriaceous, 12-15 in. long, 
8-9 in. broad, pilose on the rachis and under surface. Pinnae 
lanceolate, sessile, cut down to the rachis into oblong lobes 
^ in. broad. Veinlets simple, 10-12-jugate. Sori basal, 
minute. Indusium fugacious, densely bristly. Samoa, Powell , 
183. 
19*. FT. tibetieum, Baker. Aspidium thibeticum , Franch. PL 
David. II, 156. Moupine, Tibet, Father David. Near 
N. patens. 
19*. N. Turckheimii, Donnell Smith, in Bot. Gaz. 1887, 133, 
tab. 11. Guatemala, Baron von Turckheim , 714. 
22*. N. paucijugum, Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 1886, 270. Jamaica, 
S herring. Near N. Sloanei. 
26*. N. japonieum, Baker, n. sp. Stipe subcastaneous, |-ft. long. 
Frond lanceolate, deltoid, bipinnatifid, membranous, finely 
downy, 12-15 in, long, 9-10 in. broad; rachis castaneo- 
stramineous, downy, not scaly. Pinnae lanceolate, sessile, 
acuminate, the lowest the largest, 4-5 in. long, f in. broad, cut 
down to a narrow wing into obtuse subentire lobes i-i-J in. 
broad. Veinlets simple, 8-9-jugate. Sori supra-medial. 
Indusium large, membranous. Nagasaki, Japan, Capt. Blom - 
field . 
28. N. albo-punctatum, Desv. Oldest name is Polypodium pec- 
' tinatum , Forsk. 
28*. "N . zambesiacum, Baker, n. sp. Stipe not seen complete. 
Frond large, bipinnate, slightly hairy. Lower pinnae lanceo- 
late, a foot long, 1 1 in. broad, cut down to the rachis into 
entire acute lanceolate segments in. broad. Veinlets 
simple, 14-15-jugate. Sori medial. Indusium fugacious, 
membranous, glabrous. Zambesi Highlands, Buchanan. 
29*. N. lepidum, Baker. Lastrea lepida , Moore, in Gard. Chron., 
n. s. XXVI, 681. Polynesia, Hort . Henderson. Very near 
the Vitian N. Prenticei. 
29*. N. Sangnellii, Herb. Moore. Stipe long, naked, with a few 
