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the plant in Jamaica. The stem description given above is quoted 
from a letter by Professor Underwood. He brought back a speci- 
men of the rhizome, but it could not be found during the writing 
of this paper. He mentioned it as growing ‘‘on the summit of 
the higher ridges, above 5,000 feet, and not common.” 
22. S. varians (Fourn.) Broadh. comb. nov. 
Lomaria varians Fourn. Mex. Pl. 1: 113. 1872. 
Blechnum varians C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 161. 1905. 
Plants terrestrial. Rhizome (not seen). Sterile fronds 60-90 
cm. long; stipes 12 cm. or more (incomplete in the cotype at the 
New York Botanical Garden), apparently not angulate, maroon, 
the scales yellowish, early deciduous, narrowly triangular to linear, 
mixed with fibrillose ones; lamina 48-50 cm. long, 25-28 cm. 
wide, oblong, the base not reduced (type A, without vestigial 
pinnae), but slightly or not reduced at the apex, the terminal pinna 
‘most as long as the lateral ones,* the rachis soon becoming naked; 
pinnae 15-20-jugate, straight, long-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 
€ apex serrate, rather abruptly long-acuminate, the base sub- 
equally rounded, free throughout, petioled, 19 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; 
margins cartilaginous, irregularly erose-crispate and not revolute; 
leaf tissue rigid-herbaceous, smooth; veins not raised, the vein 
*Paces 15-18 to r cm. Sporophyls,t the stipes 15 cm. long, the 
base densely chaffy with long scales,” pinnae 25-jugate, with a 
Sterile apex. 
: Type: Bourgeau 1826; Herb. von Heurck, no. 1420, Mexico, 
Vallée de Cordoba,” February 4, 1866 (Y). 
Distrisution: Known from the type locality only. 
23. S. violacea (Fée) Broadh. comb. nov. 
Lomaria violacea Fée, Mém. Foug. 11: 11. pl. 5. 1866. 
Blechnum violaceum C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 161. 1905. 
Plants terrestrial. Rhizome 2-4 cm. thick (seen only in small 
*Pecimens), the scales short (5 mm. or less) umber or brown- 
br oa Sterile fronds of two types, (1) short and ovate or 
¢ + 
~Oidly lanceolate, and (2) larger and oblong, 18-100 cm. long;t 
es x 
a Abnormal in the New York Botanical Garden type number; not reduced, how- 
“as type number seen either at Kew or Geneva. 
% wee in Fournier’s incomplete description. They are lacking in the New 
Ah tanical Garden sheets, 
mens sd “ays the length may reach 100 cm.; he figures one of the “smaller” speci- 
ch measures 118 cm.; no scale is given, however. 
