Lomariopsis fendleri D.C. Eaton

i. Stenochlaena angusta sp. nov.
Wide-climbing on trees. Roostock rather slender, 4—8 mm.
thick, densely covered at the apex with pale, narrowly lanceolate,
long-ciliate scales, becoming naked below; leaves scattered, nar-
row, tapering at both ends, 45-60 cm, long, with a short stalk
(6-8 cm.) which is densely covered below with scales like those
of the rootstock, and with still narrower scattered fibrils which ex-
tend up the rachises; pinnae 30-3 .^jugate, obtusely cuneate at;
base forming a very short stalk, 6-^y cm. long, 10—12 mm. wide,
the margins finely and deeply undulate, tapering at the more or
less falcate apex into an acuminate point; veins simple or once
forked, rather close, with 11-15 intercostal spaces to 1 cm.;
sporophyls slightly shorter than the leaves, the pinnae 22-2 5-jugate,
55—8 cm. long, 3—4 mm. wide, obtuse at the base with a short
stalk, tapering gradually to the apex. [Figure §.]
Colombia: Jordan, Prov. Santa Marta, Jf* H, Smith 1051
(type). “ Creeping on tree trunks to 15 feet or more. Rare in
deep forest^ 1300-1400 feet*”	>
To the same species we. should refer Funsk 77^ collected in
1845 (P) * and Spruce 15-56 collected at Tarapoto, Peru (K). Also
more or less fragmentary recent collections from Bolivia: Lower
Rio Cocos, Williams 11 go; Saii Raphael, Williams. 1189; and
more doubtfully the juvenile forms, Isapuri, Williams 1203.
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