58 LONCHITIS. 



acuminate reticulated with very few areolae pinnatifid at the 

 apex, pinnules lanceolate obtuse lobato-pinnatifid all of them 

 decurrent so as to constitute a broadly winged rachis to the 

 pinna*, the inferior pinnule above (next the main rachis) 

 dwarf, lobes rotundaie entire, sinuses soriferous, sori small 

 lunate, stipes paleaceous below. — L. glabra, Boi-t/, Voy. i. p. 

 321. Sw. Sij/i. Fil. p. 93. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 463. Kze. 

 Schkh. Fil. Suppl. p. 153, t. QQ. " Schlecht. Adamhr. Fil. 

 Cap. p. 47, t. 27." Kunze in Linnaa, Fil. Afr. Austr. x. p. 

 528 .• and in Drege, PL Cap. Exsic. 



Hab. Bourbon, Bnnj. South Africa, Dref/e, Dr. Alexander. — The spe- 

 cimen from which I have drawn up my character and from which the figure 

 is made, is a part of the South African collections made and distributed by 

 Drege, with the name " L. glabra, Bory,'' attached : it ought therefore to 

 be the same as the L. glahra of Kunze in the ' Linnsea ' above quoted, 

 which is from a plant of Drege. Kunze refers it without doubt to the L. 

 glabra of Bory and Schlechtendal, and of the latter author he adduces the 

 description and figure, p. 47, t. 28, of his 'Adumbratio.' My copy (incom- 

 plete) of that work, though presented by the author, does not contain so 

 many pages nor so many plates, and I have no means of testing their iden- 

 tity. It is probably the same as Boiy's plant of Bourbon, for that author 

 says the frond is of a full or dark green colour, and Willdenow saj'S "pin- 

 nulae bipollicares lanceolatse acurninatse (scarcely in our specimens) sessiles 

 alato-decurrentes apicem versus confluentes" Sic, which is a characteristic 

 mark iu our plant. 



6. L. Madagascariensis, Hook. ; fronds bipinnate } pinnae 

 pinnate throughout slightly hairy, pinnules shortly stipitate 

 triangulari-oblong gradually acuminated much reticulated 

 below sinuate scarcely lobate the base broadly cordate, ter- 

 minal one large attenuated deeply sinuate towards the base 

 and hastate, sori somewhat elongated situated iu the shal- 

 low sinuses, rachis (of the pinnae) slender downy. (Tab. 

 LXXXVII. B.) 



Hab. Madagascar, Dr. Lyall. — This is an extremely different species 

 from any of the previous ones. All that I possess appears to be a pinna a 

 span or more long, with 5 pairs of nearly opposite pinnules, and a large 

 terminal one which is quite hastate at the base and deeply sinuate on each 

 side above the base, the sori are narrow and more or less elongated, always 

 occupying a sinus of the margin of the pinnules. The reticulation is co- 

 pious, resembling that of L. pubescens, not at all like L. glabra. 



Louchitis hirsuta, L., is a Pteris. 



Louchitis repens, L., is Hypolepis repens, Pr. 



