38 Underwood : The genus Stenochlaena 



2. Stenochlaena Milnei sp. no v. 



Creeping stems unknown ; leaves pinnate ; pinnae 6-7- (or more) 

 jugate, rigid, coriaceous, rounded-obtuse at base, nearly sessile; 

 20 cm. or more long, 3-3.5 cm. wide, the margins thickly beset 

 with small spines, the apex long-acuminate; veins close, 17-18 

 spaces to the centimeter, simple or occasionally forked at or near 

 the base ; surfaces smooth and shining ; sporophyls pinnate ; the 

 pinnae about 9-jugate, 25 cm. or more long, 5 mm. wide, tapering 

 at the apex, inclined to be revolute when dry; rachises pallid, 

 smooth, rather stout. 



Solomon Group: Milne 518 (type), K; ibid. 590, K. 



New Guinea: Honkmann, K (fragment); Armit, K (sporophyl 

 only). 



Admiralty Islands : Moseley (Challenger Exped.), K. 



5. Milnei is represented at Kew by fragmentary materials which 

 do not show the stem characters ; it is, however, sufficiently differ- 

 entiated from the variable >S. pains Iris, and especially from S. lauri- 

 folia , under which Hooker cites the type, to justify separation 

 even on present materials. Specimens have been seen only at 

 Kew. 



3. Stenochlaena palustris (Burm.) Beddome, Suppl. Ferns 

 India 26. 1876. 



Polpy podium palustre Burm. Fl. Ind. 234. 1768. (Type from 

 Ceylon.) 



Onoclea scandens Sw. Syn. Fil. 112, 309. 1806. (Change of 



Burmann's specific name without warrant.) 



* 



Lomaria scandens Willd. Sp. PI. 5 : 293. 18 10. 



Lomaria ? juglandifolia Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 52. 1825. (Type 



from the Philippines, Haenke.) f 

 Lomaria? Hae?ikeana Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1 : 53. 1825. (Type 



from Sorzogon, Luzon, Haenke?) 

 Stenochlaena scandens J. Sm. Jour. Bot. Hook. 3: 401. 1841. 

 Stenochlaena Blumeana Presl, Epim. Bot. 163. 1851. (Type 



from Tranquebar, Bottler?) 



Ht 



1851. 



*Swartz, moreover, has his references to Burmann sadly mixed and attributes the 

 species to Linnaeus who apparently never mentioned it. John Smith copied Swartz' 

 error in establishing the genus Stenochlaena. . . 



t Like many other plants in this work Presl reported this originally from Mexico 

 but corrected it in his herbarium and in his later writings. 



