33. LOMARIA, EULOMARIA. 177 



before they reach the margin ; rachis pubescent and the lower surface slightly 

 BO, colour deep-green ; fertile fr. with numerous distant, spreading, narrow, 

 linear pinnae. Blechnum, Metten. Annales, 4 ser. part 16. p. 69. 



Hab. Gathered by Milne in Aneiteum, and Vieillard in New Caledonia. This is a very 

 curious plant which Sir W. Hooker thought might be an abnormal form of L. attenuata, 

 under which it is mentioned in Sp. Fil. It is only the New Caledonian examples 

 which show the anastomosing venation, but Milne's plant is evidently the same. The 

 apex of the frond is not cut down within a considerable distance of the rachis, Mettenius 

 compares it in habit to L. nigra. It is L. emarginata of Carruthers. 



ttt Spicant group. Fronds smaller, lanceolate, pinnce not more than 1-li in. I. 

 Sp. 11-20. 



11. L. lanceolata, Spreng. ; caud. elongated and densely clothed with dark- 

 brown linear scales ; st. 4-6 in. L, firm, erect, dark-brown, paleaceous ; fr. 6-12 

 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., the barren ones lanceolate, narrowed very gradually below ; 

 pinnce close, slightly falcate, 1-1^ in. 1., - in. br., gradually narrowed to a 

 point or bluntish, slightly toothed, both surfaces naked ; texture coriaceous, 

 colour bright-green, the veins strong and prominent ; fertile pinnce linear, 

 spreading or falcate, about ^ in. apart at the base ; rachis pale, naked. Hk. Ic. 

 t. 429. Sp.S.p.U. 



Hab. Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and Polynesian Islands. 



12. L. blechnoides, Bory ; caud. creeping ; barren fr. short-stalked, lanceolate, 

 about 6 in. L, 1-1^ in. br. ; upper pinnce f in. L, in. br., dilated at the base, 

 rather falcate, the point blunt, the lower ones narrowed gradually into mere 

 auricles; texture coriaceous, veins not conspicuous ; fertile fr. 12-18 in. L, 3 in. 

 br. ; st. 6 in. 1., strong, erect, dark chesnut-brown ; pinnce 1^-2 in. 1., in. br., 

 dilated suddenly at the base, the upper ones i-f in. apart, and the bases nearly 

 or quite decurrent from one to another. Hk. &p. 3. p. 12. 



Hab. Chili. Probably this should be joined with L. lanceolata, from which it only 

 differs by its larger fertile frond, with pinnae widened suddenly at the base on both 

 sides. 



1 3. L. dura, Moore ; caud. erect, subarborescent ; st. 1 in. 1., thick, erect, 

 with ovate-lanceolate scales at the base ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., lanceolate, cut 

 down to the rachis below ; barren pinnce, the lower ones dwarfed into rounded 

 lobes, the middle ones oblong subfalcate, the upper ones narower and more 

 acuminated ; fertile pinnce shorter, crowded, broadish, very blunt, decurrent at 

 the base above ; texture coriaceous, veins forked ; invol. transversely wrinkled, 

 the margin fimbriated. Moore, Gard. Chron. 1866, p. 290. L. rigida, J. Sm. 

 Ferns Brit. $ For. p. 290. 



Hab. Chatham Islands. "Allied to L. lanceolata and blechnoides, but differing by its 

 thick leathery texture when fresh, and in the entire somewhat cartilaginous margin. 

 Fertile fronds remarkable for their stout densely-fruited very blunt crowded pinnae and 

 fringed indueia." Moore, I. c. 



14. L. aspera, Klotzsch ; caud. stout, ultimately elongated, clothed with 

 linear chesnut-brown scales ; st. scarcely any ; barren fr. 6 in. 1., 2 in. br., 

 ovate-lanceolate, narrowed very gradually below ; pinnce close, the largest f in. 1., 

 I in. br., slightly dilated at the base and auricled on the upper side, the point 

 bluntish ; texture coriaceous ; veins inconspicuous ; fertile fr. much smaller 

 (3 in. L, | in. br.), on a longer stem ; pinnae crowded, in. L, in. br., blunt, 

 the invol. broad, and involute. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 14. t. 1 44. 



Hab. Chili and Chiloe. The fronds take root at the extremity and produce new 

 plants. The habit of the barren frond is just that of L. lanceolata, but the fertile one ia 

 very different. 



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