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mm. wide, rigidly erect, dark tobacco brown or burnt umber with 
definite lighter margins. Sterile fronds 30-58 cm. long; stipes 
9-20 cm. long, more or less irregularly angulate, marked through- 
out by vestigial pinnae, dull brownish, not shining, the scales like 
those of the rhizome, but shorter, less numerous, and abruptly 
wider at the base, mixed with finer, soft, light brown to rufous 
ones, the position of the fallen scales plainly indicated as in 
S. lineata; lamina 28-40 cm. long, 13-20 cm. wide, elliptical 
to oblong, abruptly reduced at the base (type A, with vestigial 
pinnae) gradually reduced at the apex, terminal pinna 4-7 cm. 
long, the pinnae crowded to overlapping, the lower often deflexed 
(at least in dried specimens), the rachis scales mixed with more 
numerous, fine or fibrillose, matted scales; leaf tissue very heavy 
and coriaceous, becoming rolled and rufous below in drying, the 
costae more or less fibrillose, the under surface usually araneous 
with similar yellowish to rufous scales (the upper surface of the 
costae occasionally slightly fibrillose also); pinnae 12-25-jugate, 
elliptical to oblong, the apex obtuse, appearing acute in some 
“rolled” specimens, the base rounded, short-petioled in the lower 
pinnae, 6-10 cm. long, 17-27 mm. wide; margins revolute; veins 
not raised below, sometimes rather distinctly grooved above, the 
vein spaces 13-18 to I cm. Sporophyls taller, 67-114 cm. long; 
stipes 15-57 cm. long; lamina 33-60 cm. long, abruptly reduced 
at the base, slightly reduced at the apex; pinnae 20-35-Jugar®s 
thick or heavy, 15-16 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, the petioles 
heavy; sporangia dark brown; indusium quite regularly lacerate. 
[PLATE 28.] 
Type Locaity: ‘Islands of the Caribbean.” 
DisTRIBUTION: Guadeloupe only, apparently. 
SPECIMENS INCLUDED: GUADELOUPE: ‘“‘ Plateau de la Soufriére 
(autour du lac de soufre), 1895,’’ altitude 1,420 m., Duss 4104 
(Y,N); U.S. National Museum no. 524499, Duss. L'Hermmer 
27 (Geneva; tracing, Y). 
Fée himself says that his Lomaria robusta is neat L. rufa 
Spreng.; and the rufous, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous pinnae of 
Sprengel’s description, described from the islands of the Caribbean, 
are so characteristic that there seems to be no reason for dis- 
regarding the older name of rufa. 
17. S. Schiedeana (Pres!) Broadh. comb. nov. 
Lomaria Schiedeana Presl, Linnaea 5: 613. 1839; Tent. 143: 
1836. 
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