MESOZOIC PLANTS PERU 55 



cash; Trujillo and Huayday in the Department of Libertad; 

 Huallanca in the Department of Huanuco; Caleta del Pa- 

 raiso, Island of San Lorenzo, Pinonate and Lima, in the 

 Department of Lima. 



Family SCHIZ^EACE^E 



Genus KLUKIA Raciborski 



Klukia Zeilleri sp. nov. 



Cladophlebis (Klukia} cf. Browniana (Dunker) ZeilLer, Revue Gen. 

 Bot tome 25 bis, p. 7, figs. A, B, C, pi. 21, fig. i, 1914. 



This form, which came from Pinonate, Department of Li- 

 ma, is admirably described by Zeiller. The character of the 

 sporangia, with complete apical annulus, stamp this form as 

 a member of the family Schizseacese. 



Various authors have argued from the unfortunate asso- 

 ciation of these fertile specimens from Peru with the name 

 Cladophlebis Browniana that this large Mesozoic genus 

 should be referred to that family, when all it proves is that 

 the genus Cladophlebis is a composite one. What is identi- 

 fied as Cladophlebis Browniana from the Potomac group of 

 the eastern United States 12 has entirely different fertile 

 pinnules and suggests its reference to the family Polypod- 

 iacese. In neither case can it be absolutely proved that these 

 forms are the same as the European material referred to that 

 species. 



The proper course, it seems to me, in connection with this 

 Peruvian form, is to refer it to the genus Klukia in accord- 

 ance with Zeiller's researches and I have renamed it as a 

 slight token of esteem to the memory of that eminent paleo- 

 botanist. 



It may be noted that Klukia is distinctly a Jurassic type. 



"Berry, E. W., Maryland Geological Survey, Lower Cretaceous, 

 p. 243, pi. 29, figs, i, 2, 1911. 



