372 BROADHURST: STRUTHIOPTERIS IN NORTH AMERICA 
tude 1,400 m. (Y). Totutla, Liebmann, U.S. National Museum 
no. 591311. GUATEMALA: Guatemala (Dept.), altitude 4,500 ft., 
J. D. Smith 2427 (N). Alta Verapaz, ‘‘Sumpfiger Boden bei 
Coban,” altitude 4,300 ft., vom Tiirckheim 353* (N). 
Liebmann published L. spectabilis to include the earlier L. 
longifolia Schlecht. and L. Schiedeana Presl. He considered L. 
longifolia + invalid because that specific name had been previously 
‘used for a twining species. The description consists merely of 
the name, the type number (Galeotti 6406), the height (5-6 ft), 
and the habitat (borders of ‘‘ruisseaux”). L. Schiedeana was 
little more than a name, as Liebmann states. It, also, however, 
was accompanied by a type number, Schiede 78r (herb. no. 19849); 
and the statement that it differed from L. striata in having an 
elliptical-obtuse instead of a subcordate base. 
Galeotti’s specimens, seen in Kew and Geneva, seem at first 
quite different from the fragments and partial tracings of the type 
of Lomaria Schiedeana. The latter is smaller, more membranous, 
and the pinnae are more curved. Liebmann says that Schiede 
found but fragments of the sterile frond. At all events the dit 
ferences are no greater than in the plants included in S. striata; 
in fact, the range in the apical reduction of the frond and in the 
shape and number of the pinnae is about the same. 
Our material representing S. Schiedeana is very scanty; 
mann had the advantage of knowing this region, and there seems 
to be no strong reason for not accepting his conclusion that 
Schiedeana and longifolia should be united. Both names were 
based on numbered type specimens; longifolia is, as Liebmant 
points out, a homonym; Schiedeana, however, was published aia 
years earlier and is therefore the rightful name of the specie> - 
Liebmann’s name spectabilis is reduced to a synonym of S. Se ‘ i 
ana. Liebmann’s own sheets of spectabilis (U. S. Nationa 
Museum no. 591311 and 591312) do not have the shining ci 
mentioned in his description of L. spectabilis. Otherwise, exceP 
Lieb- 
. . ns imens 
for their smaller size, they seem to be very like the larger spect 
included in S. Schiedeana. 
* Not the same as von Tiirckheim 353 under S. costaricensis. ie a 
Lomaria longifolia Kaulf. 1824; since transferred to Stenochlaena; 
S. sorbifolia, according to Christensen. 
