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tude 1,400 m. (Y). Totutla, Liebmann, U. S. National Museum 

 no. 591311. Guatemala: Guatemala (Dept.), altitude 4,500 ft., 

 J. D. Smith 2427 (N). Alta Verapaz, "Sumpfiger Boden bei 

 Coban," altitude 4,300 ft., von Turckheim 333* (N). 



' Liebmann published L. spectabilis to include the earlier L. 

 longifolia Schlecht. and L. Schiedeana Presl. He considered L. 

 longifolia f invalid because that specific name had been previously 

 used for a twining species. The description consists merely of 

 the name, the type number {Galeolti 6406), the height (5-6 ft.), 

 and the habitat (borders of "ruisseaux"). L. Schiedeana was 

 little more than a name, as Liebmann states. It, also, however, 

 was accompanied by a type number, Schiede 781 (herb. no. 19849), 

 and the statement that it differed from L. striata in having an 

 elliptical-obtuse instead of a subcordate base. 



Galeotti's specimens, seen in Kew and Geneva, seem at first 

 quite different from the fragments and partial tracings of the type 

 of Lomaria Schiedeana. The latter is smaller, more membranous, 

 and the pinnae are more curved. Liebmann says that Schiede 

 found but fragments of the sterile frond. At all events the dif- 

 ferences are no greater than in the plants included in S. striata; 

 in fact, the range in the apical reduction of the frond and in the 

 shape and number of the pinnae is about the same. 



Our material representing S. Schiedeana is very scanty; Lieb- 

 mann had the advantage of knowing this region, and there seems 

 to be no strong reason for not accepting his conclusion that 

 Schiedeana and longifolia should be united. Both names were 

 based on numbered type specimens; longifolia is, as Liebmann 

 points out, a homonym ; Schiedeana, however, was published twelve 

 years earlier and is therefore the rightful name of the species, and 

 Liebmann's name spectabilis is reduced to a synonym of S. Schiede- 

 ana. Liebmann's own sheets of spectabilis (U. S. National 

 Museum no. 591311 and 591312) do not have the shining surface 

 mentioned in his description of L. spectabilis. Otherwise, except 

 for their smaller size, they seem to be very like the larger specimens 

 included in S. Schiedeana. 



* Not the same as von Turckheim 353 under 5. costaricensis. 

 f Lomaria longifolia Kaulf. 1824; since transferred to SlenoMaena; var. 2 of 

 S. sorbifolia, according to Christensen. 



