BROADHURST: STRUTHIOPTERIS IN NoRTH AMERICA 381 
Type: Fée, Mém. Foug. 11: pl. 5. 1866; from Guadeloupe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known from Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Mar- 
tinique. 
SPECIMENS INCLUDED: GUADELOUPE: Duss 4165 (Y), Duss 
3710 (Y). Dominica: Laudat, Lloyd 315 (Y, N). MAartTINIQUE: 
Montagne Pelée, Duss 4163 (Y). 
This species shows great variation in size, texture, and in the 
length and apices of the pinnae; most of the smaller coriaceous 
ones bear legends indicating that they are from high altitudes and 
the sides of volcanoes. Parallel information is wanting, however, 
for the larger specimens. The colored stipes and the heavy, 
lacerate, whitish-dotted fertile pinnae are apparently common to 
all mature specimens. Fée describes the sterile stipes as bearing 
short, remote spines, which are not present on our specimens or 
in his figure; the numerous projections figured on it resemble the 
dried, viscid scales described above. 
24. Struthiopteris vivipara Broadh. sp. nov. 
Plants terrestrial. Rhizome 3 cm. thick in the fragment seen, 
the scales very few, 2-2.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. broad, brown umber, 
More or less plicate. Sterile fronds 85-90 cm. long; stipes 24-25 
cm. long, angulate, vestigial pinnae present throughout, shining 
mahogany, the scales light brownish yellow, deciduous, shapeless 
and wholly appressed to the stipe, their attachment indicated as in 
S. lineata; lamina 64-66 cm. long, 28-30 cm. wide, oblong, 
abruptly reduced at the base (type A, with vestigial pinnae), not 
reduced at the apex, the terminal pinna 12-15 cm. long, viviparous 
at or very near the apex of the rachis; pinnae 15-16-jugate, oblong- 
lanceolate but broadest at the cordate base, straight or occasionally 
bid slightly curved near the apex, the apex acute, never long- 
‘cuminate, the base cordate and free throughout, mostly sessile 
and the rachis covered by the bases of the pinnae, the lower pinnae 
Petioled, 15 cm. long, 3—-3.5 cm. wide; margins serrate, slightly 
ne mot at all revolute; leaf tissue rigid-herbaceous, the costae 
Much like the stipe but also finely chaffy or fibrillose, the lower 
“hey of the pinnae decidedly and finely araneous over the once 
