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BROADHURST: STRUTHIOPTERIS IN NorTH AMERICA 265 
throughout with vestigial pinnae varying from mere scars to 
lines about I cm. long, bicolored; lamina 22-47 cm. long, 12-24 
cm. wide, deltoid to oblong-deltoid or ovate-lanceolate, the base 
abruptly reduced (type A or B, with vestigial pinnae), with or 
without I-3 more or less semicircular contiguous lobes, gradually 
reduced at the apex, the terminal pinna 5-9 cm. long, the pinnae 
usually alternate, the lower more or less diverging but contigu- 
ous; pinnae 9-18-jugate, broadly triangular to oblong, straight 
(or the upper ones slightly curved), the apex acute, never acumi- 
nate, sometimes contracted near but not at their bases, 6-12 cm. 
long, 1.5-3 cm. wide; margins entire. not at all or but irregularly 
and slightly revolute; leaf tissue rigid-herbaceous, closely and 
markedly punctate, showing throughout rounded translucent 
spaces when held to the light, without scales; veins rarely con- 
spicuous, never raised or grooved, usually ending in circular glan- 
dular swellings or in depressions which occasionally hold a more 
or less separable, central, scalelike swelling, the vein spaces 6-7 
toIcm. Sporophyls 44-90 cm. long, taller than the sterile in all 
the complete specimens seen; stipes 24-40 cm. long, marked with 
vestigial pinnae, usually reddish brown, occasionally purplish 
black, not bicolored as in the sterile, though sometimes lighter 
on the upper side; lamina 22-40 cm. long, abruptly reduced at 
the base, gradually at the apex, the terminal pinna 5-10 cm. long; 
pinnae 12-22-jugate, 11-14 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, often with 
@ sterile tip 3-7 mm. long, broadly dilated both ways at the base 
and fruited on the dilations; indusium not heavy, entire, not 
becoming lacerate; sporangia varying from yellow to dark brown. 
Type: Fée, Mém. Foug. 11: pl. 3. 1866. Collected by 
L’Herminier in 1861, Guadeloupe. 
DistRiBuTion: Jamaica, Porto Rico, the Lesser Antilles 
(St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique), 
Costa Rica, and Panama. 
SPECIMENS INCLUDED: Porto: Rico: Luquillo Mountains, 
Wilson 135 (Y). Sr. Krrts: Top of Mt. Misery, under cliff, 
Britton & Cowell 546 (Y). Montserrat: Chance’s Mountain, 
at the top, altitude 3,000 ft., Shafer 273. GUADELOUPE: Duss 
4107.4166,* (Y, N). Dominica: Mt. Diablotin, Lloyd 880 (Y) 
and 893 (Y, N). 
__This has been. confused by Jenman and by some European 
Mie the localities given on the Duss sheets are descriptive rather than specific: 
localities ect are given for sheets bearing the same collection narnbet; or several 
Sliven on one sheet. The locality is, therefore, omitted in such cases. 
