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scales, like those of the stem ; lower pinnae largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, the 

 others equal, lanceolate ; pinnl. lanceolate, lowest stalked ; final lobes ligulate- 

 oblong, blunt, 1-2 lin. br., faintly toothed on outer edge, narrowed on upper, 

 decurrent on lower side at base ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces naked, bright- 

 green ; veins pinnate in final lobes with forked venules ; sori rather large, costular, 

 absent from lower part of pinnules ; inv. glabrous, persistent. Lastrea crinita, 

 JBoivin. 



Hab. Bourbon, JBoivin ; Natal, Buchanan & McKen. 



105*. N. (Last.) vile, Baker; rhizome oblique; scales subulate, ferruginous; 

 st. 6-8 in., clothed like rachises with blackish subulate scales ; fr. ovate-acu- 

 minate, 1 ft. L, tripinnatifid ; pinnae stalked, lowest largest, deltoid, produced 

 below, 3-4 in. 1. ; pinnl. ovate-oblong, obtuse, lowest stalked, deeply pinnatifid ; 

 segm. close, ligulate, 1 -nerved ; texture membranous ; surfaces setulose, sub- 

 glandulose ; sori nearer midrib than edge ; inv. minute, ciliated. Aspid. Kze. 

 Ettings, tab. \H,fig. 5. tab. 118. fig. 8. 



Hab. Java, Zollinger, 1602. 



105*. N. (Last.) Maximowiczii, Baker ; st. 6-8 in., castaneous, glossy with 

 scattered lanceolate scales throughout ; fr. deltoid, 1 ft. 1., quadripinnatifid ; 

 rachises stramineous ; lower pinnce much largest, long-stalked, produced on the 

 lower side, the others lanceolate-cuneate truncate on lower side at base ; lowest 

 pinnl. and segm. deltoid, stalked, cuneate on lower side at base ; final lobes rhom- 

 boid-oblong, unequal-sided, 1^-3 lin. br., dentate ; texture membranous ; surfaces 

 green, glabrous ; venules erecto-patent ; sori small, placed just below final 

 sinuses ; inv. glabrous, persistent. Aspidium sanctum, Maxim. MSS. 



Hab. Japan, Yokohama, Maodmowlcz, 98. 



115*. N. (Last.) nigritanum, Baker ; st. and rachises naked stramineous ; fr. 

 ovate-deltoid, 1^-2 ft. 1., tripinnatifid ; lower pinnce largest, oblong-lanceolate, 

 short-stalked, 7-8 in. 1. ; pinnl. sessile, lanceolate, f-f in. br., cut down to a 

 broad wing into close, blunt, slightly-toothed lobes 2-3 lin. br. ; texture moderately 

 firm ; surfaces green, the lower thinly clothed with shining yellow-brown hairs ; 

 veins pinnate in segm. ; sori small, medial ; inv. fugacious, glabrous. Aspid. 

 Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Afr.p. 138. 



Hab. Princes Island, Barter, 1906. 



124*. N. (Last.) apicale, Baker ; st. and rachises substramineous, shortly 

 densely glanduloso-pilose ; fr. deltoid, 1 ft. 1., quadripinnatifid ; lower pinnce 

 much largest, deltoid, distinctly stalked, erecto-patent, subequilateral, ft. 1. ; 

 lowest pinnl. and segm. deltoid, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, acute, the 

 latter sessile ; final lobes close, lanceolate, the largest entire 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 firm but thin ; surfaces green glabrous beyond the pilose main ribs ; sori at tin 

 base of the final sinuses on the lower side ; inv. small, glabrous, persistent. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Ifoore. Near recedens, from which it differs in texture, 

 shape of segments, and position of sori. 



124*. N. (Last.) lancilobum, Baker ; st. 1 ft. 1., castaneous near base, the rest 

 and rachises grey-stramineous, densely grey-downy ; fr. deltoid, 1-2 ft. each 

 way, 4-pinnatifid ; lower pinnce much largest, stalked, produced on lower side ; 

 lowest pinnl. and segm. lanceolate, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, the 

 latter sessile ; final lobes lanceolate, close, the largest entire 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 chartaceous ; surfaces dark-green, finely pubescent all over ; sori small, in two 

 rows near border of final lobes ; inv. minute, fugacious. 



Hab. Queensland, Dallachy, JIutchinson.-M.OTQ rigid than velatinum, less densely 

 pubescent, with narrower more acute final lobes. 



