4 LOMAKIA. 



stipitate coriaceous glaI)rous 1-2 feet and more long ovato- 

 lanceolatc acuminate pinnatifid (rarely lanceolate and undi- 

 vided), segments fe^v or man\', of the sferile frond oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate suljfalcate patent more or less approxi- 

 mate entire except at the point which is slightly serrated, 

 at the base generally decurrent so as to form a lobe in the 

 sinus of the margin often bearing white dots, terminal seg- 

 ment the largest, lowest segments often suddenly reduced to 

 mere lobes, fertile segments remote erecto-patent linear 

 decurrent so as to form a narrow wing in the sinuses, sori 

 continuous on the wings as well as segments, stipes long 

 more or less scaly at the base. — Blume, En. Fil. Jew. ii. 

 j9. 201. ''Moritz, Verz. d. ZoU. PL Juv. n. 23G." Hook. fil. 

 Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. 29. L. punctata, Bl. En. Fil. Jew. p. 

 201. Kze.in Schkuhr Fil. Svppl. ii. t. 137. L. Colensoi, 

 Hook. fil. in Ic. PI. t. 627 a^id 628. L. heterophylla, Colenso, 

 MSS. {not Desv.). L. coriacea, Bruckenr. Fil. U. St. Expl. 

 Exp. p. 122? [not Schrad.). — Var. /S, with undivided fronds. 

 L. Cumingiana, Hook. Fil. Exot. in note under L. Patersoni, 

 t. 43. (Tab. Nostr. CXLIII.) 



Hab. Java, Blume, Zollinger, Thas. Lobb. Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. Walker. Neil- 

 glierries, Gardner, M'h'or (singular varlet)', with segments a span long, upper 

 ones sterile and leafy, lowei* ones narrow-linear and fertile, except their apices, 

 which are lanceolate, leafy and sterile, so that these segments, in shape and appear- 

 ance, resemble the petiolatcd leaves of Alisma Planfago). Island of Aneiteuni, 

 Ovalau and Ingau (Feejee group), Milne, Braclcenridye. New Zealand, Northern 

 and Middle Islands, Colenso, Sinclair, Lyall, Joliffe. — Var. P. fronds undivided or 

 nearly so. Luzon, Cuming, n. 200. Ovalau, Feejee group, Milne (Denham's 

 Voyage in H.M.S. Herald). — Few persons, on seeing Mr. Cuming's quite entire- 

 fronded small Lomaria, as shown in our figure, Tab. CXLIII., would suspect it 

 to l)e the same as some of our large New Zealand ones, with a frond two feet 

 long, deeply pinnatifid, with segments more than an inch broad, and with the 

 lower portion suddenly ])innated with ten or twelve diminutive pinna;, or rather 

 mere lobes, not half an inch long: such, however, is really the case. The number 

 of segments on the frond is also extremely variable ; where most numerous the 

 fronds have no inconsiderable resemblance to L. gihha of Labill. The latter has, 

 however, much more numerous and more crowded and serrated segments ; ter- 

 minal one not larger than the rest, generally smaller; the lower segments in the 

 sterile plant narrower, and either straight or decurvedly falcate, and the texture 

 is more membranaceous. 



3. L. Wi!t'/«»oca?</o«, Brack. ; "stipes smooth black, fronds 

 ovato-oblong acuminate glabrous pinnate at the base towards 

 the apex deeply pinnatifid, sterile fronds with the pinna3 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate subfalcate dotted at the margin 

 crenated at the apex at the inferior base auriculate decur- 

 rent, terminal one longer, those of the fertile frond linear 

 mucronate, involucres torn at the edge." — Bruckenr. Fil. U. 

 &'t. Expl. Exp. p. 122. 



