— 300 — 



6. Stigmatopteris Michaelis (Bak.) — fig. 9. 



St/n. Poly podium Michaelis Baker, Journ. Bot. 1877: 164; Sodiro, 

 Cr. vase. quit. 293. 1893; Dryopteris Michaelis G. Chr. Ind. 277. 1905. 



Type from Ecuador, Sodiro (HC). 



Not unlike the former species in size and colour, but pinnae lobed 

 ^/3 of the way down with long, narrow, somewhat falcate and crenate 

 lobes. Sori near the costule with long, brown, articulated paraphyses 

 between the sporangia. Immersed glands very small and numerous. 



7. Stigmatopteris longicaudata (Liebm.) — fig. 10. 



Syn. Polypodium longicaudatum Liebmann, Mex. Bregner 57. 1849. 



Type from Mexico: Vera Cruz, Baranca de Huitamalco, Liebmann 

 1841 n. 739 (HH, HB). 



Other typical specimens are: 



Mexico: Chiapas, S. Cristobal, G. Munch (HC). — Vera Cruz, 

 Cordova, Hugo Fink n. 67^/2 and 123 (HW). 



Guatemala, Alta Vera Paz, near the Finca Sepaquite, 0. F. Cook 

 &R. F.Griggs 1902, n. 178 and 613 (HW). Purulha 1800 m., v. Tiirck- 

 heim n. II. 1691 (HW). 



Costa Rica, Werckle 1903 (HC). 



Peru, Spruce n. 4012 (HB) ; St. Gavan, Lechler n. 2492 (HB). 



It is a pleasure to me to restore another of Liebmann's many for- 

 gotten species. This is really a very fine species, certainly very like S. 

 rotundata in size, colour and texture, but at once distinguished from that 

 species by its most pinnae having a long decurrent base; in the upper 

 third of the lamina the pinnae are confluent by a broad wing to the 

 rachis; the next following pinnae (excepting the 2 — 3 lowest pairs, which 

 are shortly petiolate) are sessile with a long decurrent, cuneate wing. 

 The pinnae are as a rule only serrate with oblique, sharp teeth. Veins 

 not rarely united, especially in the specimens from Peru. Scales very few. 



8. Stigmatopteris alloeoptera (Kze.) — fig. 1 1 a, b. 



Syn. Polypodium alloeopterum Kze. Linnaea 25: 748. 1853; Dryo- 

 pteris alloeoptera G. Chr. Ind. 251. 1905. 



Type from Colombia, Galipan, Wagner n. 460 (not seen). To 

 this species I refer the following specimens. 



Colombia, Schlim n. 856 (HC), Santa Marta, H. H. Smith n. 

 1045 (HC), Coteje, Lehmann n. 8951 (HB), Ocafia Schlim n. 596 (HB). 



Venezuela, Merida, Engel (HB). 



Costa Rica, Carl Hoffmann (HB). 



1 have some doubt of this species being really distinct from S. 

 longicaudata. It agrees with it in the rachis being winged above and in 



