33. LOMARIA, EULOMAHIA. 175 



2. L. Vieillardii, Baker ; caudex stout, erect, woody ; st. 3-4 in. L, clothed 

 below with large dark-brown lanceolate scales ; sterile fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 1-3 in. 

 br., varying in shape from linear and entire to oblong, with a long, linear, 

 entire point and cut down within \ in. of the rachis into several pinnce on 

 each side, which are l-2 in. 1., \ in. br., furnished with a distinct wavy 

 cartilaginous border and subdentate towards the apex ; the base gradually 

 narrowed into an undulated wing to the rachis, with sometimes a few distinct 

 auriculate lobes ; texture coriaceous ; veins fine, rather distant ; fertile fr. quite 

 simple or pinnate, with several narrow distinct linear pinnce on each side, which 

 are 3-4 in. 1., -| in. apart at the base. Blechnum, Metten. Annales, series 4. 

 vol. 15. p. 70. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 48. 



ft Attenuata group. Fronds ample, ovate ; pinnce numerous, 2 in. or more long. 

 Sp. 3-10. 



3. L. ciliata, Moore ; caudex a span high, 1^- in. thick ; st. blackish, slightly 

 scaly below ; fr. not numerous, 8-12 in. 1., ovato-oblong, simply pinnate ; barren 

 pinnce linear-oblong, the lower ones distant and narrowed below ; the upper 

 ones more approximate, adnato-decurrent, with a broad rounded auricle at the 

 base on the lower side, bluntish, frequently emarginate or bifid, the margins 

 lobed and spinuloso-ciliated ; texture firm but thin ; veins usually once forked ; 

 fertile pinnae narrow, linear, decurrent, sometimes slightly pinnatifid ; rachis 

 dark-coloured like the stipe, slightly scaly below. Moore, Gard. Chron. 1866. 



Hab. New Caledonia; imported by Mr. Veitch. " Allied to L. gilla in the 

 swollen decurrent bases of the pinnae, but differing in its less numerous fronds, and in 

 the much less crowded series of pinnae as well as in their very apparent fringe of 

 epimilose teeth." 



4. L. ffibba, Labill. ; caud. 2-3 ft. high ; st. short, strong, erect, densely clothed 

 below with long, linear-subulate black scales ; fr. 2-3 ft. L, 6 in. br., both 

 barren and fertile with very numerous erecto-patent pinnce on each side, those of 

 the former 4-6 in. 1., J- in. br., cut down nearly to the rachis, dilated and con- 

 nected at the base, the lower ones growing shorter very gradually, the margin 

 nearly entire ; texture coriaceous ; veins once forked, fine, subparallel ; fertile 

 pinnce 4-6 in. 1., ^ in. br., the sori occupying the whole space between the edge 

 and midrib ; rachis stout, the lower half fibrillose like the stipe. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 5. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Aneiteum, Isle of Pines. A large stout plant much resembling 

 L. attenuata in the shape of the pinnae and the gradual way in which they decrease 

 downwards, but differing by its dark bristly scales, which extend considerably up the 

 rachis. A specimen from Erromanga, from E. Brown's herbarium, has the sori not 

 quite marginal. 



5. L. discolor, Willd. ; caud. stout, ascending ; st. 3-6 in. 1;, strong, black, 

 glossy, densely clothed at the base with long, dark, linear-subulate scales ; fr. 

 1-3 ft. 1., the barren one 4-6 in. br., narrowed gradually at the base : pinnce 

 numerous, spreading, contiguous, linear, 2-3 in. L, if in. br., cut down very 

 nearly to the rachis, narrowed suddenly towards the point, the margin wavy ; 

 texture coriaceous ; veins prominent, close, subparallel ; fertile pinnce as numerous 

 but narrower and shorter ; rachis naked, usually reddish-black in the fertile 

 frond Hk. Sp. 3. p. 5. 



Hab. Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand ; abundant. Dr. Mueller 

 sends a curious bipinnatifid form. " Very similar to L. attenuata, but usually larger, the 

 fronds forming an elegant crown, red-brown below, the pinnules narrower, those of the 

 fertile frond often leafy at the base." Dr. Hooker. 



