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Christensen makes these three names (Schiedeana, longifolia, and 
spectabilis) synonyms of Lomaria ornifolia* Presl. Presl published 
L. Schiedeana five years after L. ornifolia; in comparing them he 
described ornifolia, thought to be from Peru, as differing in having 
obliquely cordate bases: Schiedeana he elsewhere described as 
having elliptical-obtuse, not subcordate, bases. There seems 
therefore no reason for adopting S. ornifolia as the specific name 
for these plants which possess rounded to almost tapering bases. 
Fée’s L. acrodonta has apparently an abnormal fertile frond; not 
having access to the type, Schaffner 102, 1854, I see no valid reason 
for separating it from S. Schiedeana, especially as the description 
contains contradictory statements as to size. In the Rovirosa 
specimen included in 5S. Schiedeana, the fertile frond has in two 
Places a pair of fertile pinnae instead of the usual single pinna. 
Such abnormality has not been noticed in any other species of 
Struthiopteris.+ 
18. S. sessilifolia (Klotzsch) Broadh. comb, nov. 
Lomaria sesstlifolia_ Klotzsch; Christ, Bull. Boiss. IL. 4: 
1092. 1904. 
Blechnum sessilifolia{um] C. Chr. Ind. Bil. 159. 1905. 
Plantst terrestrial. Rhizome (not seen). Sterile fronds 1.5 m. 
jong: Stipes 50-82 cm. long, angulate, dull brownish, the scales 
Roe ate, I.5-2 cm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, dull brownish, ragged 
according to Christ, reddish straw-colored, very soft, and thread- 
Ke); lamina 96 cm. long, 29 cm. wide, oblong, not at all or but 
t , 
pie SPPosite, the rachis grayish brown, with dull brownish, 
Seta 
58- re oe or less appressed, and deciduous scales; pinnae 
>” 70-jugate, linear-oblong, mostly falcate, the apex attenuate, 
'S, 13-15 cm. long, 20 mm. wide; margins irregularly 
+ leaf tissue herbaceous (much rolled in the poorly 
oe Cotype seen), not araneous below, the costal scales 
Site or’ ovate-lanceolate, light brown, rather numerous; 
* Rel, Haenk, 3: 5I. 182s, 
: di 8 eng under S. violacea of spurlike growths at the bases of the fertile 
Species of Struthiopteris, p. 380. 
t Thi ‘eae 
Ra escription is chiefly from the U. S. National Museum cotype of L. 
