. Teate stipes, but as no modern specimens of Lonchitis have 
~ CHARACTERS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 
a Ons,— The latter species is a noble Fern. A plant 
- received from Jamaica, and cultivated at Kew, attained in 
1864 a stout eaudex, nearly a foot in height, producing 
large, spreading, firm fronds, upwards of 10 feet long, | 
with stipes at least 4 inches in circumference, thickly beset 
with muricate prickles. The large size and different 
aspect of this species from its congeners, when viewed 
with its stout arboroid caudex, seems sufficient to render it 
worthy of being ranked as a distinct genus. 
166.—Loncurris, Linn, (1737). 
Hook. Sp. Fil. 
Vernation fasciculate, erect, subarboroid, laniferous. 
Fronds bi-tripinnate, 2 to 6 feet long, the ultimate pinne 
sinuouse-pinnatifid. Primary veins ` costeform, pinnate 
venules anastomosing, forming irregular hexagonoid areoles. 
Sporangiferous receptacles transverse, on the apices of 4 to : 
venules, converging on the sinus of the lobes, forming an 
arcuate sorus on each sinus. Jndusiwm linear. 
Type. Lonchitis aurita, Linn. 
Ilust. Hook. and Bauer, Gen. Fil, t, 68 A.; Schott. 
Gen. Fil, t. 80; Moore Ind. Fil, p. 31 B.; J. Sm. 
Ferns, Brit. and For, f. 99; Hook. Syn. Fil, t. a 
fig. 23. 
Oxs.—This genus was founded by Linneus on tab. 71 
Plumier's Filices, which is represented as having an arc 
been observed with that character I am inclined to 
sider it a mistake of the artist, the other parts of the f 
agreeing with the species described by Hooker as L. 
 deniana, a native of Venezuela, Plumier's figure | 
derived from a Martinique plant. 
