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species. The specific name is hardly applicable to the Assam plant. I possess onlythe upper part of a frond, whereon there are no glands to enable me to verify thespecies.

18. N. (Eunephrodium) verms turn. J. Sm.; “fronds gla-brous lanceolate” (pinnate, the pinnre pinnatifid), “ pinnaelanceolate truncate at the base subsessile alternate, segmentsfalcate, sori minute marginal.”— Hew. in Ferns of Jamaica , p.112 (Aspid.). J. Sm. Cat. Gard. Ferns, p. 54.

Ilab. Mayday Mountains, Jamaica , R. Howard. —I fear this may prove only avar. of N. molle , with larger and broader pinnae, and the sori more marginal thanusual.

19. N. (Eunephrodium) crinipes, Hook.; stipes nearly 1foot long and as well as the rachis stout and singularly erectand stiff stramineous the former shaggy with copious longspreading flexuose subulate dark brown scales which extendsome way up the rachis, frond more than 2 feet long submem-branaceous quite glabrous from a broad base oblong acumi-nate copiously pinnated, pinnae 5-6 inches long less than |an inch broad sessile horizontally patent from a broad baselinear-oblong finely acuminated pinnatifid more than halfwaydown to the rachis with oblong subfalcate obtuse entire seg-ments, lowest segments a little longer than the rest, lowestpair of veinlets united, sori on all the veinlets and on nearlyevery pinna large cordato-reniform very membranaceous.

Hab. Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 1000 feet, HooTc.fil. and Thomson. —This Fern , ofwhich we possess only a solitary specimen, has the shaggy crinite scales of thestipes and rachis of Aspidium (§ Lastrea) patentissimum of Wallich (but thestipes is much longer), the pinna; of N. (Lastr.) patens, and the venation of N.molle. The stipes and rachis are remarkably stiff and straight, and the pinnae ofa pale yellowish-green, horizontally patent.

20. N. (Eunephrodium) venulosum* Hook.; quite gla-brous, stipes 1 \ foot and more long stout and together withthe rachis sharply angled brownish-green, frond 4| feet long-broad ovato-lanceolate acuminate subcoriaceo-membranace-ous dark green glabrous copiously pinnated, pinnae 6—9 incheslong 1 inch broad mostly opposite sessile oblong graduallyand very finely acuminated deeply more than halfway downpinnatifid with oblong subfalcate subcrenate segments serratedat their apex superior ones approximate inferior pairs distant2 inches apart somewhat contracted at the base, lowest fouror five pairs suddenly and very much dwarfed 4 inches apartauricled at the base above conspicuously veined, costules

* Not Aspidium venulosum, Wall, which is Nephrod. multilineatum.