176. 33. LOMARIA, EULOMARIA. 



6. L. attenuata, Willd. ; caud. long, horizontal, stout, densely clothed at the 

 apex with linear-subulate, bright-brown scales ; st. 4-6 in. 1., erect, naked or 

 slightly scaly below ; fr. 1-3 ft. 1., 6-9 in. br., ovate, narrowed very gradually 

 downwards ; barren pinnae numerous, contiguous, spreading, linear, 3-4 in. L, 

 ^-f in. br., narrowing gradually towards the point, which is sometimes bluntly 

 serrated, dilated on both sides at the base ; texture coriaceous ; veins strong ; 

 fertile pinnae as numerous but very narrow (^-1 lin. br.) ; rachis naked. Hk. 

 Sp. 3. p. 6. L. gigantea, Kaulf. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 10. 



Hab. America from the West Indies and Guatemala southward to Brazil and Juan 

 Fernandez ; Polynesian Islands, Norfolk Island, Mauritius, Bourbon, Fernando Po, and 

 Cape Colony. L. pteropus, Kunze, is evidently a form with the lower pinnae confluent. 

 Occasionally all the pinnae are obliterated, and we have an entire lanceolate frond like 

 that of L. Patersoni. 



7. L. L'Herminieri, Bory ; caud. ultimately elongated, densely clothed with 

 linear dark-brown scales ; st. 4-6 in. 1., strong, erect, dark-brown, paleaceous ; 

 barren fr. ovate-lanceolate, 9-15 in. L, 3-4 in. br. ; the pinnae dilated at the base, 

 slightly falcate, 2 in. or rather more 1., \ in. br., the point bluntish, a few of the 

 lower ones cut down suddenly into mere auricles ; texture coriaceous ; colour 

 dark-green, both surfaces naked ; veins not conspicuous ; fertile pinnce 2-3 in. 

 1., J in. br., the lower ones ^-1 in. apart at the base. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 9. Gard. 

 Ferns, t. 40. 



Hab. America from the West Indies and Columbia southward to Chili. A smaller 

 plant than L. attenuata, narrowed more suddenly below, with shorter, broader, and 

 blunter pinnae. 



8. L. divergens, Kunze ; caud. thick, creeping or suberect, densely scaly at the 

 crown ; st. 6-12 in. 1., stout, erect, dark- coloured, naked ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 9-12 in. br., 

 oblong-lanceolate, abruptly terminated at the base ; pinnce very numerous on 

 each side, spreading, those of the barren frond 4-6 in. L, ^-f in. br., cut down 

 very nearly to the base, the edges flat, entire, contiguous, the point acuminated ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; veins obscure, subparallel, nearly J in. apart at the base ; 

 fertile pinnce 4-6 in. 1., J in. br., often variously curved, dilated at the base, 

 rachis naked. L. Plumieri, Desv. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 7. 



Hab. Tropical America from the West Indies and Columbia southward to Rio Janeiro 

 and Peru. In some of the forms the pinnae are nearly equal at the base, in others few in 

 number and conspicuously dilated. This and the next may be known from all the pre- 

 ceding by the abrupt termination of the frond in a downward direction, the lowest pair 

 of pinnae being usually not much shorter than the others. 



9. L. vulcanica, Blume ; caud. thick, erect or subprostrate, densely clothed at the 

 crown with subulate blackish scales ; st. 4-6 in. L, pale, erect, paleaceous below ; 

 fr. 6-18 in. L, 3-6 in. br., the barren one ovate-lanceolate, not narrowed at the base 

 or the lower pinnae abbreviated ; pinnce spreading, lanceolate, 2-4 in. 1., ^-in. 

 br., the base slightly dilated, the point acute or bluntish, the lowest pair 

 deflexed ; texture coriaceous, the margin cartilaginous and undulated ; veins fine 

 and prominent beneath, the surface and margin often slightly hairy ; fertile 

 pinnce linear, distant, dilated suddenly at the base, 2-4 in. L, in. br. Hk. Sp. 

 3. p. 13. Ic. t. 969. L. pilosa, Brack. 



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



10. L. opaca, Baker ; caud. ascending, clothed at the crown with numerous 

 linear dark-brown scales ; barren fr. ovate, narrowed very gradually below, 

 6-12 in. 1., 4-6 in. br. ; pinnce numerous, close, spreading horizontally, linear- 

 oblong, 1-2 in. 1., ^-f in. br., dilated and connected at the base, the margin 

 undulato-dentate, and the apex bluntly rounded and emarginate ; texture thick 

 and coriaceous ; veins fine, at least twice branched, sometimes anastomosing 



