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Lomaria longifolia Schlecht. Mém. Acad. Brux. 15: 49. 
1842. 
Lomaria spectabilis Liebm. Vid. Selsk. Skr. V. 1: 235. 1849. 
Lomaria acrodonta Fée (?), Mém. Foug. 8: 70. 1857. 
Blechnum ornifolium C. Chr. (in part). Ind. Fil. 157. 1905. 
Plants terrestrial. Rhizome (not seen), the scales (in Guate- 
malan species at least) large, 2.5-3 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, more 
or less plicate, burnt umber. Sterile fronds 1.1-2 m. long; stipes 
70-80 cm. long, irregularly angulate, light-colored (and shining in 
the Guatemalan species), the scales yellowish brown to snuff- 
lower pinnae long-petioled, 24-36 cm. long (9-15 in the smaller 
orms), 1.8-3 cm. wide; margins entire to finely serrate, more or 
less cartilaginous; leaf tissue membranous to herbaceous or barely 
ngid-herbaceous, the surface sometimes shining, the costae finely 
fibrillose or naked; veins} not raised, but distinct below, the vein 
Spaces 13-18 to 1 cm. Sporophyls 50-160 cm. long; lamina 38- 
100 cm. long, slightly or not at all reduced at the base, gradually 
ed at the apex; pinnae 1 5-26-jugate, 8-20 cm. long, 3-5 mm. 
Wide, with a sterile tip 2—5 mm. long, more or less petioled; spo- 
a dark brown; indusium delicate, narrow, and sparingly 
Cerate, 
Types: 1. (Lomaria Schiedeana) Mexico, Schiede 781 (Berlin; 
Tagments and tracing, Y). 2. (Lomaria longifolia) Mexico, Cor- 
dilleras, Vera Cruz, altitude 4,000 ft., H. Galeotti 6406, 1840 
(Kew and also Delessert Herbarium, Geneva; tracings, Y). 
Distrigution: Apparently confined to Mexico and Guatemala- 
SPEcIMENs INCLUDED: Mexico: Herb. Rovirosa, no. 846, 
Pas, “Habitat inter pago San Bartolo et Las Nubes,”’ alti- 
eee ter pago- 
ag me of t. Schiedeana is a small plant and is not reduced at the apex. 
ious marci apices are so swollen in one Guatemalan plant that the true carti- 
cn pen TH1S in the type of S. Schiedeana and in all the larger specimens, 
€ Galeotti specimens, 
