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Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius ; and a very striking form that grows in the 

 Tristan da Cunha group is referred to this species. It has not been found in Asia, 

 Australia, or New Zealand. 



Lomaria capensis, Willd. 



Lomaria capensis, WillJ., Sp. PL, v. p. 291 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 737. 



Osmunda capensis, Linn., Mant., p. 306. 



Lomaria procera, Sprengel, Syst. Veg., iv. p. 65; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 22; Hook, and Bak., 



Synopsis Fil., p. 179; Hook., Ic. PL, tt. 427, 428; Hook., Garden Ferns, t. 53. 

 Lomaria giUiesii, Hook, and Grev., Ic. Fil., t. 207. 



Lomaria chUensis, Kaulf., Enum. Fil., p. 154; Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. p. 480. 

 Lomaria reedei, Pliilippi, Descr. Nuevas Plantas, 1873, p. 105? 

 Blechnum chilense, Mettenius, Fil. LechL, p. 1 1. 



Juan Fernandez. Scouler ; Mosetey. 



Widely dispersed in tropical and southern extratropical countries, though it is wanting 

 in St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and other islands already dealt with in this work. On 

 the other hand, it is abundant in New Zealand and the outlying Campbell and Kermadec 

 Islands. AVe have doubtfully reduced Philippi's Lomaria reedei to this species from the 

 description alone. 



Blechnum australe, Linn. 



Blechnum australe, Linn., Mant., p. 130; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 56 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis Fil., 

 p. 186; Mett. in Reise der Novara, Bot., i. p. 208; Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras., fasc. xlix., p. 420. 



Blechnum hastatum, Kaulf., Enum. Fil., p. 161 ; Hook., Sp. FiL, iii. p. 57 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis 

 Fil., p. 185; Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. p. 477. 



Lomaria Tiastata, Kunze, Farrnkrauter, p. 119, t. 55, fig. 1. 



Blechnum pubescent, Hook., Ic. PL, t. 97 ; Gay, FL Chil., vi. p. 478. 



Lo maria pulescens, Kunze, Farrnkrauter, p. 122, t. 55, fig. 2. 



Juan Fernandez. — Apparently very common in the islands, being in every collection 

 from the early ones of Scouler and Bertero down to Moseley's, the last received. 



This fern inhabits Madagascar, Bourbon, South Africa, the islands of St Paul, Amster- 

 dam, and the Tristan da Cunha group, and is also common in temperate South America. 

 In Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum, Blechnum hastatum is retained as an independent 

 species for the South American plant, but it is impossible to distinguish the African from it. 



Asplenium lunulatum, Swartz. 



Asplenium lunulatum, Swartz, Synopsis FiL, p. 80 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis FiL, p. 202. 

 Asplenium erectum, Bory in Willd. Sp. PL, v. p. 328; Hook., Sp. FiL, iii. p. 126. 

 Asplenium fcrnandezianum, Kunze, Anal. Pteridogr., p. 22 ; Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. p. 503. 

 Asplenium alatum, Hunib. t Colla in Mem. Accad. So. Torino, xxxix. p. 40, t. 69. 



Juan Fernandez. — Shady woods in the higher mountains — Bertero ; Douglas ; 

 Cuming ; Reed ; Moseley ; Downton. 



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