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fchanM. Eaouls. Some specimens resemble L. Banksii, but differ in texture and in the narrowed base of the 

 more numerous ^ -Fronds tufted, 2 inches to a span high, membranous, pale green, blunt or acute. Pinnules 

 coarsely bluntly crenate, especially towards the blunt apices, close set, linear-oblong or rounded, sessile by a broad 

 base, or contracted at the upper or lower end or at both margins • veins distant, forked; upper surface shining 

 Lowest pinna remote, rounded, generally attached by a broad base, and running close down to the base of the 

 stipes. Fertile pinna on longer stipes, of few or many, distant, narrow linear, blunt or apiculate pinnae. Stipes 

 chaffy at the base. Caudex large and stout for the size of the plant. 



§ b. Frond pinnatifid, or pinnate, when the lower pinnules are adnate by a very broad base to lie rackis. 

 4 Lomaria »«, Blame ; rfuzomate crasso paleis crinito, fronde sterili sublonge stipitata coriacea 

 lanceolata ovata v. ovato-deltoidea pinnatifida basi pinnata, pinnis glabris approximatis falcatis infimis 

 decurns lanceolate obtusis acuminatisve integerrimis v. subcrenatis costa nervisque glabris v. villosulis 

 lertilibus patentibus anguste linearibus basi obtusis acutisve dilatatis, involucris marginalibus laceris stipite 

 baai cnmto.-UW, En. Ml. Java. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 969. L. deflexa, Colenso in Tasm Phil 

 Journ. 



at Ke^T N ° rtllem ISknd: TaraW6raj EaSt C ° aSt; *°" C ° lem0 ' AUCkknd ' SincMr - ( Cultivated 



A very distinct species, easily recognized by the often deltoid coriaceous frond, the two lower pinnas of which 

 are deflexed. It ls found in Tasmania and on the lofty mountains of Java.-i&W usually very stout and woody 

 sometimes as tluck as the wrist. Fronds terminal, 4-18 inches long, tufted, on long stipes, ovate or lanceolate' 

 defend, coriaceous. Fmna close, 1|- S inches long, falcate, acuminate (rarely blunt), perfectly entire or irre^ 

 larly crenate, glabrous or pubescent on the costa and nerves below (especially in Java specimens). Fertile fronds 

 with much narrower pmnae, and marginal sori sometimes covering the whole pinna. Rackis and stipes paie the 

 latter onmte with long black scaly bristles at the base.-Mr. Colenso has collected a stunted form of this wi'th a 

 proportionally immense prostrate caudex, such as other species of Lomaria often form in dry soils. 



5. Lomaria elongata, Blame; fronde coriaeea glaberrima, sterili pinnatifida (juniore integra lanceo 

 ata) m stipitem decurrente, pinnis elongatis lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis falcatis decurrenti-confluen- 

 tibus, rack late alata, costa glaberrima, fronde sterili pinnatifida pinnis anguste lineari-elongatis, involucris 

 lacens rack anguste alata, stipitibus robustis laxe squamatis.-L. elongata, BUme, et L. punctata, Plume 

 En Plant lav. v 2. p. 201. Kunze, Farnlcr. t. 137. L. Colensoi, Booh Ml. in Ic. Plant, t. 627 628* 

 L. lieterophylla, Col. mi Tasm. Phil. Journ. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands: Waikare Lake, Colenso. Port Nicholson, Sinclair. Ship 

 Cove, Lyall. ? 



TM t" eX °Sf "'I r an T S T 6 ! em> th0Ugl1 neithel ' deHcate n ° r find y cut ■• i4 is fo ^ in Java, Ceylon, and the 

 Nelgherrie HiUs o the Indian Pemnsula, and closely resembles a South American species, in which however the 

 rachis of he fertile frond docs not appear to be winged.-FW, pendulous, very thick and coriaceous, quite 

 smooth and glabrous, 1-3 feet long, deep green and shining. Sterile ones broadly ovate, pinnatifid. Finn Aw 

 remote, a span long, linear-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, each decurrent and joining that below it, whence the' 

 rachis is very broadly winged; lower pinnae decurrent on the stipes, which is furnished with an irregularly lobed 

 wing. Fertile fronds pinnatifid, the segments very long (10 inches) and narrow; rachis with a narrow win ff 

 Stipes stout, with a few broad scales— The veinlets often terminate in a little depression within the mar-in of the 

 pinna, whence probably Blume's name of L. punctata. ' 1& 



6. Lomaria lanceolata, Br.; frondibus fertilibus utrinque concoloribus submembranaceis caespitosis 

 glabris anguste elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi angustatis breviter stipitatis pinnatifidis basi pinnatis 

 pinnis plurimis approximatis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis acutis v. acuminatis subfalcatis inte-errimis v' 



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