LOMARIA. 481 



to a distinct wing into falcate acute segm. ; texture coriaceous ; surfaces dark- 

 green, densely shortly pubescent on the ribs ; sterile segm. serrulate ; areolce dis- 

 tinct, 2-3-serial between midrib and edge ; sori not reaching tips, Kuhn, Linn. 

 36. p. 90. 



Hab. Venezuela, Funk and Schlim, 599. Between aculeata and decwrens. 



79. P. livida, Mett. ; rhizome stout, creeping ; st. and rachises naked, bright 

 light-brown ; Jr. deltoid, bipinnate, 2-3 ft. or more each way ; pinnae ligulate- 

 lanceolate, lowest nearly sessile, not forked, 12-15 in. 1., 4-5 in. br., cut down 

 to the rachis below to a narrow wing, above into lanceolate falcate scgm.^- in. br., 

 barren inciso-crenate ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces bright-green^naked ; veins 

 distinct, upper of segm. free, lower uniting in high costal arches ; sori not reaching 

 the tips. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5. vol. 2. p. 222. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Triana, Lindig, 179. Pinnae like upper ones of Run- 

 zeana, but frond not tripartite. 



XXXIII. LOMARIA. Page 174-183. 



5. Australian var. nuda (R. Br.) differs from type by less coriaceous texture* 

 castaneous stems, and more numerous narrower acuminate pinnte ; var. nata- 

 Icnsis, Baker (Natal, McKen & Buchanan), scales pale-brown, membranous ; 

 fronds subcoriaceous, 2 in. br. ; pinnce patent, blunt ; fertile fr. 4 in. 1., with 

 crowded pinnse. 



6*. L. acuminata, Baker; sterile fr. oblong-lanceolate, l|-2 ft. 1., 4-6 in. br., 

 narrowed gradually from the middle to both ends with a subcastaneons st. 2-3 

 in. 1. ; pinnce 30-40-jugate, lanceolate-acuminate, subfalcate, |-f in. br., crenulate, 

 adnate by the whole equally dilated base ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces 

 naked, dark-green ; veins fine, close, immersed ; fertile pinnce distant, central 3-4 

 in. 1. 



Hab. Norfolk Island, and a form from Kermadec Isles with more deeply crenate 

 pinnse. Intermediate between attenuala and lanceolata. 



9*. L. auriculata, Baker ; sterile fr. oblanceolate-oblong, 1 ft. 1., 3-3 in. br. at 

 middle, narrowed gradually to base ; pinnce close, 15-16-jugate, upper and central 

 lanceolate, ascending, bluntish, entire, - in. br., c 



lin. br. ; lowest much reduced, free, f-1 in. ]., auricled on both sides at base ; 

 tenure subcoriaceous ; colour dull dark-green ; both surfaces and rachis densely 

 clothed with purplish-brown hairs ; veins erecto-patent, fine, close, distinct, 1-2- 

 furcate ; fertile fr. unknown. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 



10*. L. DeplancJiei, Baker ; sterile fr. oblanceolate, 12-15 in. L, 2-2| in. br. 

 above middle, narrowed very gradually all through lower half, cut down nearly 

 or quite to rachis into close blunt entire adnate pinnce, central 1 j-1 i in. 1., ^ in. br., 

 lowest 12-15 on each side under \ in. 1., its st. 2-3 in. L, clothed "with squarrose 

 linear-subulate black-brown scales ; texture rigidly coriaceous ; surfaces dark- 

 preen, naked ; veins immersed, obscure ; yt. of fertile fr. much longer, its pinnce 

 distant, ascending, central 2-2 in. 1. Blechnum Deplanchei, Lenorin. MSS. 



Hab. New Caledonia, DeplancJie. 



18*. L. Gheisbreghtii, Baker ; rliizome short-creeping ; scales large, lanceolate, 

 brown, dense, membranous ; barren fr. oblanceolate, 3-6 in. 1., -1 in. br. ; 

 pinnce 15-20-jugate, close, ligulate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, obscurely 



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