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iiig to the broad apex, veins subHabellate, stipes elongated 

 and rachis ebony black glossy. (Tab. LXIV. A.) — J. Si/i. 

 MSS. foi/n'llc'd hi/ Mr. Smith in the Knum. Fil. Philipp. 

 puhlished in Hook. Journ. of Bof. v. iii.) 



Hub. Luzon, Cmniiif/, n. 175. — A very distinct and rare species, caiidex 

 and coarse roots and stipes and rachis black. Pinnre as in L. acUantoidcs, 

 and as in many -'l'//"»^(, deciduous, rather tliick and somewhat coriaceous, 

 entire, but souicliuics witli a little auricle at the superior anji^le next the 

 rachis, quite sessile, very obtuse; involucre rather broad, continuous and 

 extendinjf to the rounded apex. 



6. L. Lohhiana., Hook.; caudcx somewhat creeping, fronds 

 tufted pinnate linear-lanceolate much acuminate, lower pinnae 

 remote, the rest approximate, all of them slightly petiolatc 

 patent submerabranaceous subnitent obliquely (labellate or 

 half ovate, the superior base truncate, u})i)er margin curved 

 (convex) lobate soriferous, sori interru])ted linear, stipes ra- 

 ther short and rachis brown. (Taij. liXIl. C.) 



Hab. Java, Mr. Thos. T.nhh. — A very handsome and apparently distinct 

 species, in many respects however accordin>r with the characters of L. liici- 

 da and L. (jratilh, HI., from the same country. JJut, without a fijj^ure, I 

 should despair of making the character of the present one intelligible, so 

 dilKcult is it to define in words the forms of the pinufc of these plants. It 

 is a very handsome species, a foot or a foot and a half long (the base and 

 apex only being represented on our lihite), erect, rather rigid. Stipites 

 (much tufted) and rachis glossy brown, pale. Fronds deep green, a little 

 shining. All the pinnic are lo'bed in the upper margin, and the sori are as 

 long as the lobes are broad. 



7. L. concinna, J. Sm.; caudcx somewhat creeping, fronds 

 tufted pinnate linear-elongate acuminate, lower pinna; remote, 

 the rest close, all of them patent small submcmbranaceous 

 pale obliquely flabellate obtuse few-veined, sorus continuing 

 along the convex u])per margin which is entire except some- 

 times in the lower pinna), stipes rather short and rachis 

 brown. (Tab. LXI. 13.) — J. Sin. in Hook. Jonrn. Bof. iii, p. 

 415, {name only). 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming, n. lOfS. — Allied to the preceding, but rather 

 smaller (a foot long), narrow, paler colored, not at all glos.sy ; the piuuip, 

 esjiecially the upper ones, closer to one another and to the rachis, (juitc 

 entire, except sometimes in the lower ones, and approadiing to flabelli- 

 form. Mr. J. Smith likens this to L. degans, Hook., in le. PI. i. t. i>8, 

 from Columbia, but that I fear is only an unbranched slate of Z. siricla. 



8. h. samdcns, Hook.; caudcx very long stout climbing 

 and rooting, clothed Avith Icrruginons scales, fronds distant 

 lanceolate elongate (large) jiinnate subsessile dark green ra- 

 ther rigid, i)inn;c approximate ol)long-oval subdimidiate sub- 

 falcate obtuse entire tnuicatc at the superior base w hich i.s 



