268 BROADHURST: STRUTHIOPTERIS IN NORTH AMERICA 
Spicanta L’ Herminiert O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 820. 1891. 
Blechnum L’Herminieri C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 156. 1905. 
Plants terrestrial. Rhizome ascending to erect, at least 4-15 
cm. high, the scales not numerous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 
tobacco brown. Sterile fronds 30-48 cm. long; stipes 4-12 cm. 
long, not at all or somewhat angulate, without vestigial pinnae, 
bicolored; lamina 18-32 cm. long, 5-11 cm. wide, lanceolate, 
abruptly reduced at the base (type A or B), usually with 2 or more 
pairs of somewhat semicircular, contiguous lobes at the base, 
gradually reduced at the apex, with a terminal pinna 2-6 cm. long, 
the pinnae sometimes opposite; pinnae 7—16-jugate, the upper 
ones falcate, the lower ones more or less falcate, the apex acute, 
never acuminate, the base more or less dilated, 3.5-6 cm. long, 
10-18 mm. wide; margins entire, slightly and only irregularly 
revolute; leaf tissue rigid-herbaceous, without scales; veins dis- 
tinct, not definitely raised or grooved, the apices somewhat glandu- 
lar, the vein spaces 6-8 to 1 cm. Sporophyls 26-50 cm. long, and 
often but little taller than the accompanying sterile fronds; stipes 
13-35 cm. long, straw-colored to brownish, occasionally slightly 
purplish, but slightly or not at all marked with vestigial pinnae 
in the upper part; lamina 13-24 cm. long, abruptly reduced at the 
base, gradually reduced at the apex; pinnae 10-17-jugate, 4-9 Cl 
long, 2-3 mm. wide, with or without a constricted sterile tip, 
the base widely dilated, not fruited on the dilations; indusium not 
heavy, entire, not becoming lacerate; sporangia dark brown. 
Type: Bory 201, from Guadeloupe (Kunze also cites Linden 
193 and Moritz 31, both from Caracas). 
DistRiBUTION: Known from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and 
Dominica. 
SPECIMENS INCLUDED: GUADELOUPE: Duss 4166 (Y, N)i 
Duss 4167 (N). Dominica: Mt. Diablotin, Lloyd 885 (N). 
MARTINIQUE: Duss 1554 (Y). 
5. S. Maxonii Broadh. sp. nov. 
Plants terrestrial. Rhizome erect, 43 cm. high (in type pr 
ovate 
to lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, dull brown; lamina 22-35 ae 
3-5 cm. wide, narrowly elliptical, gradually reduced at his at 
(type F), gradually reduced at the apex, the terminal pin? 
