Parr 1, 1909] SCHIZAEACEAE 51 
TYPE LocaLity: Shaded rocky banks of streams, near Santa Ana-Cavalleros, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Kunze, Anal. Pterid. fl. 8, f.1; E. & P. Nat. PA. 14: 370. SJ. 198, C. 
25. Anemia coriacea Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cuba 272. 1866. 
Rhizome relatively slender and wide-creeping, freely branched, densely clothed with 
slender ‘brown turgid hairs ; fronds dorsal, manifestly distichous, spaced or subfasciculate, 
the stipes of the fertile fronds mostly surpassing the sterile fronds, usually much so. Sterile 
fronds 5-9 cm. long, rigidly ascending; stipes stoutish, 2.5-5 cm. long, dark-brown, smooth, 
or at the arcuate base pilose; lamina deltoid or ovate-deltoid, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, 
acute, bipinnatifid or sometimes bipinnate at the base; pinnae 4-6 pairs, approximate, slightly 
ascending, alternate, the lowermost petiolate, hastate, obtusely cuneate at the base below, 
truncate above, and broadly subauriculate both above and below, or in larger fronds elongate, 
lanceolate-deltoid, with a single pair of ovate or suborbicular pinnules at the base and 
crenately lobed below the obtuse apex; middle pinnae short-petiolate to sessile, unequally 
hastate to deltoid-oblong, the uppermost ovate-oblong, semiadnate, finally confluent at the 
acute subentire apex; veins prominent upon both surfaces; leaf-tissue very coriaceous, 
lustrous upon both surfaces, paler below, glandular and very sparsely pilose upon both sur- 
faces; margins denticulate, thickened, rigidly recurved, the segments often concave. 
Fertile fronds 14-24 cm. long, erect; stipes elongate, 8-15 cm. long; sterile lamina similar 
to that of the sterile frond but narrower and smaller; fertile (basal) pinnae alternate, long- 
petiolate, 6-9.5 cm. long, 2 to 3 times as long as the sterile lamina, the pinnules alternate, 
remote, bipinnatifid, with distinct and nearly glabrous segments; spores cristate-striate, 
the ridges undulate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from eastern Cuba. 
26. Anemia adiantifolia (L.) Sw. Syn. Fil. 157. 1806. 
Osmunda adiantifolia I,. Sp. Pl. 1065. 1753. 
Osmunda asplenifolia Savigny, in Lam. Encyc. 4: 652. 1797. 
Ornithoplerts adiantifolia Bernh. Neues Jour. Bot. Schrad. 12: 50. 1806. 
Anemia asplenifolia Sw. Syn. Fil. 157. 1806. 
Anemia carvifolia Presi, Rel. Haenk. 1: 74. 1825. 
Anemia adiantifolia asplenifolia Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. 1: pl. 16. 1829. 
Rhizome creeping, closely clothed with dark-brown or blackish acicular turgid hairs ; 
fronds dorsal, distichous, approximate, the stipe of the fertile ones usually not equaling 
the sterile fronds. Sterile fronds ascending or arching, 15-70 cm. long; stipe usually a 
little longer than the lamina, brownish-stramineous from a darker base or rarely castaneous 
throughout, clothed with dark to lightish flaccid hairs, glabrescent except near the base; 
lamina ovate-deltoid or subpentagonal, 7-35 cm. long, 4-28 cm. broad at the base, bi-tri- 
pinnate, or in large forms deeply quadripinnatifid at the base, gradually simpler above, the 
upper pinnae closer, sessile, very gradually reduced, the uppermost adnate, finally conflu- 
ent at the elongate acuminate apex; pinnae numerous, contiguous or imbricate, slightly 
ascending, all but the upper ones distinctly stalked, in outline truncate above at the base 
and usually contiguous with the rachis, exciso-cuneate below, the pinnules wholly anadro- 
mous; lowermost pinnae the largest, deltoid-lanceolate, often elongate, inequilateral by 
the development of the inferior basal pinnules, these deltoid-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate 
from a broad base, acute, fully pinnate (segments 1-6 pairs, the basal ones often deeply 
piunatifid), the anterior pinnules approximate or contiguous, exciso-cuneate below, inequi- 
lateral, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong or narrowly subrhombic, all but the outermost 
deeply pinnatifid or incised, these oblong-obovate (often narrowly so), obtuse, the ultimate 
segments of the lamina in general similar to these, wholly anadromous; rachises long- 
pubescent throughout with slender mostly whitish hairs; leaf-tissue usually coriaceous, 
lustrous upon both surfaces, paler and glandular below, pilose upon both surfaces, espe- 
cially between the veins, finally glabrescent above; margins erose-denticulate, thickened. 
Fertile fronds mostly 15-85 cm. long, the lamina about one half to one fourth the length of 
the frond, similar to that of the sterile frond or usually not pentagonal; fertile (basal) 
