320 Baker.— A Summary of the new Ferns 
48*. "No nevadense, Baker; Aspidium nevadense, Eaton, Ferns 
North Amer. 73, tab. 10. California, on the Sierra 
Nevada. 
49. N. contermintim, Desv. Under this very variable species fall 3ST. 
brachypus, amphyoxypteris, lasiopteris, stenophyllum, 
and stramineum, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Prov. Quit, 
p. 43-51, from the Andes of Ecuador and the Jamaican 
N. earibaeum and noekianum, Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 
18 86, 270. 
49*. N. simulans, Baker, in Journ. Bot. 1890, 106. Mount Knuts- 
ford, New Guinea, Sir W. Macgregor. Very ne r N. con- 
fer minum. 
49*. N. fasciculatum, Baker ; Aspidium fasciculaium, Fourn. in Ann. 
Sc. Nat. ser. 5, XVIII, 295. New Caledonia, Balansa , 1611, 
3568. Not seen. 
49*. N. Seemanni, Baker, n. sp. Rootstock not seen. Stipe short, 
naked. Frond oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-2 1 ft. long, 
8-9 in. broad, moderately firm, slightly hairy ; rachis naked. 
Pinnae very numerous, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, J in. 
broad, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into entire 
segments, \ in. broad ; lower pinnae reduced. Veinlets, 5-6- 
jugate, simple, erecto-patent. Sori supra-medial. Indusium 
firm, glabrous, persistent. Oahu, Seemann. Very near 
N. confer minum. 
49*. N. firmum, Baker ; Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 1879, 260. Jamaica, 
Jenman. 
52. N". Sprengelii, Hook. N. Sherringii, Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 
1879, 261, is, I think, a variety of this species. 
52*. N. conforme, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Prov. Quit. 45. 
Andes of Ecuador, Sodiro, type and var. strigillosum. Near 
N. Sprengelii. 
53*. N. polylepis, Baker ; Aspidium polylepis, Franch. et Savat. 
Enum. Jap. II, 236, 631. Japan, Savatier, Dickins. Allied to 
JV. conterminum and prolixum. Distinguished by its few veins 
and scaly rachis and lamina. 
53*. N. longicuspe, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVI, 202. Central 
Madagascar, Miss Helen Gilpin. Near N. prolixum. 
55*. N. retrorsum, Sodiro, Recens. Crypt. Vase. Prov. Quit. 51. 
Andes of Ecuador, Sodiro. 
