REPORT ON THE BOTANY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ AND MASAFUERA. 71 



"Widely diffused in tropical and southern extratropical countries, and one of the com- 

 monest plants in Juan Fernandez. 



[Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. pp. 490, 491, includes Pteris patens, Kunze (Anal. Pteridogr., p. 

 28), which is doubtless a form of Pteris incisa, Thunb., and Litobroehia decurrens, Presl, 

 a well-marked species only known to us from Brazil.] 



Pteris marattiaefolia, Hook. 



Pteris maratticefolia, Hook., Sp. Fil., ii. p. 177, t. 122; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis Fil., p. 157. 

 Pteris semiadnata, Philippi in Linnsea, xxix. p. 10G. 



Juan Fernandez. Philippi. 



There are no specimens of this fern from Juan Fernandez at Kew, and it is probable 

 that Philippi's record in the Linnaea was a mistake, for there is a specimen at Kew direct 

 from him of his Pteris semiadnata, labelled " Valdivia." The other specimens are from 

 Chiloe, Cordillera de la Costa, and Cordillera de Ranco. In the same place as the Pteris, 

 Philippi published the very marked new Trichomanes dichotoma, and cited Juan Fernandez 

 as its native country ; but that also he sent to Kew labelled " Valdivia." 



Lomaria attenuata, Willd. 



Lomaria attenuata, Willd., Sp. PI., v. p. 290 ; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 6 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis 



Fil., p. 176 j Hook, f., Handb. Fl. N. ZeaL, p. 368; Eenth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 736. 

 Blechnum attenuatum, Mett., Fil. Hort. Lips., p. 64, t. 3. 

 Lomaria fernandeziana, Philippi, Descr. Nuevas Plantas, 1873, p. 105. 

 Lomaria bella, Philippi in Linnsea, xxix. p. 104. 

 Lomaria acuminata, Philippi MSS. in Herb. Kew. 

 Lomaria schottii, Colla in Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxxix. p. 44, t. 72. 



Juan Fernandez. — In dense woods of the higher mountains — Bertero ; Douglas ; 

 Philippi; Reed; Moseley ; Downton. 



Very widely diffused in tropical and southern extratropical countries ; but within the 

 limits of Hooker's Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, it is only known to occur in the 

 Kermadec Islands, and only in Lord Howe Island within the limits of Bentham's Flora 

 Australiensis. Lomaria bella, Philippi, is a pretty variety, with a deep red stipes and 

 midrib. 



Lomaria blechnoides, Bory. 



Lomaria blechnoides, Bory in Duperr. Voyage, Bot. Crypt., p. 273; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 11 ; Hook, 

 and Bak., Synopsis Fil., p. 177 ; Gay, Fl. Chil, vi. p. 481 ; Philippi in Bot. Zeit, 1856, p. 630. 

 Blechnum lomarioides, Mett., FiL Lechl., p. 14. 



Juan Fernandez. Philippi; Reed. 



Philippi states that this species is common in Chili, but we have only seen it from the 



