Pteris.] CXLVII. FILICES, 738 
12. P, marginata, Bory; Hook. and ee Syn. n 172.— 
- Rhizome not seen. Fronds on young plants sometimes l 
when full grown several feet high, the main rhachis branched usually 
tripartite, each branch pinnate. innæ numerou to 10 in. long, 
deeply poem, segments oblong or broadly Tem often faleate, 
obtuse, 2 to 1 in. long, confluent into a winged r rhachis 2-to 3 lines 
broad ; veins copiously ‘reticulate on each side of the midrib, Sori 
often continued round the sinus, but rarely reaching the ends of the 
lobes. Barren fronds thinner, the lobes often minutely dentate.— 
P. mm, d ium Hook. Spec. Filic: i. 225, F. Mue 
Fragm 125; P. Milneana, Baker, Syn. Filic. 170; , itobrochia 
ripe, = and L. Milneana, Bail. Queensl. Ferns 
Que Rockingham Bay, una y; Bellenden Ker dee W. dnd. 
ao. rea Tresna. Bowen, Woo 
pe over tropical Asia and ies Z the Pacific Islands. 
P. cienne, F. Muell, Fragm. v. 124, from Rockingham Bay, is evidently a 
small frond of this te ie probably from a y oung root. We have similar specimens 
from various stati 
13. P. comans, Forst. ; Hook. Spec. Filie. ii. 219, Syn. Filic. 171. 
—Near P. marginata, but. larger xi more branched, the main a 
bearing several branches or prima inne 
Secondary pinnee 4 to 10 in. long, pent hi pinnatifid ; segment nu Bose 
à in. long, oblong-lanceolate or linear, often faleate, decurrent 
aloug the rhachis whieh is not however uniformly winged as in 
marginata; some of the lower segments sometimes again shortly 
pinnatifid ; veins copiously reticulate. Sori usually continued round 
195; P. Endlicheriana, Agardh ; Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 973, Bes Filic. ii. 
k. f. Fl. Tasm ; 
Linnea, xxxvi. 92, 
gp gag Toowamba, Hartmann 
N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Wools ; Lord Howe's Island, €. Moor. 
Victoria. Johanna River . FE, Mueller ; Dandenong, L. Morton ; ps Bay, 
Wilkinson. 
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn, Emmett, F. Mueller. 
Also in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, 
26. LOMARIA, Willd. 
ees R. Br.) 
k. Fronds pinnatifid 
3 of ea ch year 's shoot 
of the € bet een it d the darain, with a membranous m 
