Lomaria. | FILICES. St 
Nort anp SourH ISLANDS, CHATHAM ISLANDS, STEWART IsLAND, AUCK- 
LAND AND CAMPBELL IstaANDS: Abundant in open forests throughout. Sea- 
level to 3000 ft. 
Easily distinguished by the tall erect habit, long and narrow horizontally 
spreading pinne, and dirty-white or reddish under-surface. The fronds are 
frequently forked at the top, and a beautiful sport is in cultivation in which the 
pinne are greatly expanded in the upper two-thirds of their length, and deeply 
pinnatifid. Also a native of Norfolk Island, Australia, and Tasmania. 
3. L. vuleanica, Blume, Hn. Fil. Jav. ii. 202.—Rhizome short, 
stout, woody, erect or inclined, densely clothed with the remains 
of the old stipites. Stipes 4—9in. long, slender, pale yellow-brown, 
clothed towards the base with dark-brown shining subulate scales, 
smooth and polished above. Sterile fronds 4-14 in. long without 
the stipes, 2-5in. broad at the base, lanceolate-deltoid, not nar- 
rowed below, acuminate, coriaceous, dull-green, glabrous or the 
surfaces and margins sprinkled with soft white hairs, pinnate at 
the base, pinnatitid above. Pinne 1-3in. long, +-4in. broad, 
spreading, lanceolate or ensiform, broadest at the base, acute or 
obtuse at the tip, falcate, lowest pair deflexed ; margins thickened, 
entire or minutely crenate-undulate. Veins free, forked. Fertile 
fronds usually exceeding the sterile and with a longer stipes, 
pinnate in the lower half; pinnz 1-2 in. long, linear, distant, with 
a dilated adnate base. Sori continuous; indusium with lacerate 
margins.—Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 969; Sp. Fil. iii. 12; Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. ii. 29; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 367; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 
176; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 735; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 65; Field, 
N.Z. Ferns, 99, t. 27,{.5, 5a. Li. deltoides, Col. in Tasmanian Journ. 
Nat. Sci. (1845) 17. lL. deflexa, Col. l.c. 18. Li. paucijuga, Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. (1888) 222. Blechnum vulecanicum, Christ. 
NortTH AND SoutH Isuanns, Stewart Istanp: In dry open woods from 
Auckland and Coromandel southwards, but often rare and local, especially to 
the north of the Hast Cape, more frequent in the subalpine forests of Nelson 
and Canterbury. Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
A well-marked species, at once recognised by the narrow-deltoid frond, with 
the lowest pair of pinne deflexed. It extends northwards through Australia 
and the Pacific islands to Malaya. 
4. L. Norfolkiana, Heward in Lond. Jowrn. Bot. (1842) 122.— 
Rhizome short, stout, erect or inclined, clothed with the bases of 
the old stipites mixed with dark-brown chaffy scales. Stipes short, 
stout, 2-4in. long, scaly at the base. Sterile fronds numerous, 
forming a crown at the top of the rhizome, erect or spreading, 
1-3 ft. high, 3-6 in. broad, lanceolate or narrow elliptic-lanceolate, 
gradually tapering from the middle to both ends, acuminate, dark- 
green, firm but scarcely coriaceous, quite glabrous, deeply pinnatifid 
or pinnate at the base. Pinnz numerous, close-set, horizontally 
spreading, 13-3 in. long, $-3in. broad, lanceolate, tapering from a 
broad adnate base to an acuminate point, subfalcate, the lower ones 
