Type from Peru: St. Gavan, LEcHLER (B!) 
A comparison between the type-specimen and Spruce’s nr. 4719, the type of 
Pol. prasinum Bak., shows at once that the two are absolutely identical. Ph. Lech- 
leri Mett. was, mirabile dictu, in Index Fil. referred to Dryopteris subincisa as a sub- 
species. The same species was gathered in Ecuador: San Miguel, by Sopiro nr. 
49 (Budapest); Sopiro’s description of Pol. prasinum, Cr. vase. quit. 297, corresponds, 
however, best with S. ecuadorensis, described below. 
278. Stigmatopteris cyclocolpa 
(Christ) C. Chr, Amer. Fern Journ. 4: 82. 
1914. — Fig 5a. 
Syn. Polypodium cyclocolpon 
Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 4: 659. 1896. 
he cyclocolpa C. Chr. Ind. 
260. 190 
rh from Costa Rica: Foréts 
de Tsaki, Talamanca, Tonpvuz nr. 
9480 (W)). 
Leaf grass-green, firmly herbaceous 
or membranous, distinctly pellucido- 
punctate, perfectly glabrous but with 
some red-brown narrow scales on 
the lower part of the midrib of the 
pinne beneath. Lamina bipinnate-tri- 
pinnatifid; pinnz short-stalked, lance- 
olate, 25—30 cm long, 8—10 cm 
broad, fully pinnate in the lower two- 
iis, Pinnule 4—5 cm long, 10—12 
mm broad at the base, the lower ones 
what unequal base gradually attenuated 
into an acuminate, serrate apex, lob 
*/s—*/s of the way to the midrib. Lobes 
Fig. 5. Pinnez in nat.-size and segments < 2 of a. 
St. cyclocolpa,,b. St. Lechleri, c. St. ecuadorensis. 
rectangular, 2—4 mm broad, serrate especially at the obtuse or truncate apex. Vici 
mostly 4-jugate in the lobes, simple. Sori supramedial, without indusium-like scale. 
— Not easily confounded with any other species. 
279. Stigmatopteris ecuadorensis C. Chr. sp. nov. — Fig. 5c. 
Syn. Dryopteris ecuadorensis C. Chr. m 
Polypodium prasinum Sodiro, Cr. vase. sel 297. 1893, pro parte. 
