THE BROAD PRICKLY 
'OOTHED BUCKLER FERN 
iin = nc fom, in етері prie of Sean 
in Inland i ue пите Уу йе Ror. Q. Pinder, who fund й la Werner, ad 
Тейиш and э ie В. Boever for plants found by Mz T, Belo al Torr near Centon 
Lydbok, in à 
and in Minga nat Sika, and Kodak in U 
Caudez stont, ated, 
ally erect, rarely decumbent, not. ereepi 
nd trunk- 
like, sometimes tufted, the crown densely scaly ; the fronds arranged in a circlet around the crown, 
when the caudex is erect, Scales lanceolate-subulate, hair-pointed, brown, with a dark centre and 
paler mar Fibres dark-brown, numerous, coarse, branched, tomentose 
Stipes terminal, and adherent to the caudes, variable in length, usually from about one-third to 
one-half the entire length of the frond, stout at the base, green, densely scaly ; the seales spreading, 
most numerous at the base, but usually abundant throughout the whole le 
gth of the stipes, and in the 
normal plant lanceolate-attenuate, and dark-contr 
1 like those of the crown, frequently almost black 
rachis convex behind, channelled in front, smooth, or in some plants otherwise normal, clothed with 
glands; somewhat sealy, especially at the back, with small subulate more or less distinctly two- 
coloured scales 
Vernation circinate, the rachis often folded laterally as well as involutely fore and aft, the apex being 
simply eireinate 
ond averaging two to three feet, but (exclusive of the varieties noticed below) varying from about 
foot to five or six fect in length, and from six to sixteen inches in breadth, herbaceous, dark: 
above, paler beneath, spreading and more or less arched 
drooping, ovate or ovate- 
typical form, bipinnate or tripinnate. Pinne numerous op} osite, the pairs more distant. 
below. The lowest pai 
wre obliquely-triangular elongate, the posterior pinnules being much larger than, 
often twice as large as, the anterior ones; the pinna of а few o 
f the succeeding pairs have also an 
obliquely-deltoid outline, which gradually disappears towards the upper part of the frond, so that those 
of about the third or the fourth pair, and th 
above them, are nearly equal-sided ; the upper pinnze 
also narrower, tapering very gradually from the base to the apex. Z'iunules ovate-oblong, acutish, 
often convex, the basal ones stalked, the upper sessile and decurrent ; the lower on 
(especially those 
of the lowest pinnw) are very deeply pinnatifid, sometimes pinnate, and the lobes or pinnulets are 
oblong and bluntish in outline. All the divisions are sharply-toothed, with teeth of sub-ovate form, 
terminating in a bristle-like point or muero, which is in general curved laterally towards the apex 
of the pinnule or lobe 
Venation of the pinnulets of the lower pinnas consisting of a stout flexuous vein, proceeding from 
the rachis-like vein of the primary pinnule, forming a midvein, from whieh a venule proceeds into each 
marginal lobe, and 
is is forked where the lobe is toothed, so as to give off a branch towards each 
tooth, the anterior branch being fertile at some distance below its apex, In the larger of the less 
divided primary pinnules, the same arrangement occurs on а reduc 
1 scale, the midvein producing a 
ein for each lobe, and this again а venule for each tooth, the lowest anter fertile 
т venule only bein 
