736 CXLVIII. FILICES. LLomaria. 
lines broad, the lower gradually smaller, the lowest very short 
and broad. Segments of the fertile fronds under 1 in. long, about 
13 lines broad. —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 143; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 121; 
Rea lanceolata, R. Br. Prod. 152. 
Hopkins vd ‘Alle, : and thence to Wilson's Promontory sparingly 
in biverk woods, P. Mue 
Tasman : is ‘abundant in po pue moist forests, J. D. Hooker. 
S. Axatrullk. Mount Gambier, F. Muel 
Also in New Zealand and the Pacific fiiy 
. L, attenucta, Willd.; Hook. Spec. Filic. i 6, Syn. Filic. 176. 
ne aye thick, creeping up the stems of fern trees, densely covered 
with long almost hairlike brown seales. Fronds i pa 1 ft. long, deeply 
pinnatifid, almost pinnate from near the base. Ségments s of the barren 
ones lanceolate-falcate, 1 to2 in. long in the centre of the frond, the 
lower ones gradually smaller, the lowest very short and broad, all 
attached by their broad base and mostly confluent, the rhachis glabrous 
or slightly scaly. Veins oblique from the midrib, one e forked. 
zo of the fertile fronds very narrow linear, E to 4 in. long. 
ales. Lord Howe’ 8 Island, on the stems of tree “be C. Moore, 
Pulligen Fiteger ald. 
Í Ranges over tropical America, southern Africa, the Mascarene and Pacific 
slands. 
6. L. alpi ina, Spreng.; Hook. Spec. Filie. ii. 16; Filic. Exot. t 
32, Syn. Filic. 178. — Rhizome creeping, scaly. Fronds deeply 
pinnatifid or pinnate, 3 to 8 in. long, the “rhachis and slender stipes 
glabrous. Pinnules or peuo of the barren fronda E obtuse, 
e long, 1 to 14 lines broad. — Hook. f. 
. Fragm. v. 121 ; Stegania alpina, R. Br. Prod. 152 
N.S. Wales? Macleay River, C. Moore, two barren fronds appear to belong 
to this species. | 
x ictoria, Upper Hume River, Mount Useful and other Alps, abundant, F. 
ue 
Tasmania. Table Mountain (Mount Wellington) R. Brown ; abundant in boggy 
_— and Mn of all the mountains, J. D. Hooker ; Southport, in plains near the 
» C. Stua 
canes in cet South America and New Zealand. 
