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Hal). Mount Manijaijai, Luzon, Philippine Islaiuls, Uraekenridge. — " Related 

 to L. punctata, Bl. (L. elongata, Bl. and of this work), but differing in its fronds 

 being rounder at the base, and in the aliseiice there of minute obtuse pinna;; also 

 in the greater length of its sterile pinna;." — liravk. 



I am unaci|iiaiiite(l with this species, and I place it in the section with pinna- 

 tifid sterile fronds because the upper portion at least is said to be pinnatifid, and 

 because of its relationship to L. punctata, Bl. (our L. elongata, n. 2). 



4. L. gibba, Labill. ; caude.K stout 1-3 feet high (Labi/L), 

 frond H-'2 feet long ovato-oblong acute coriaceo-memhra- 

 naceous deeply pinnatifid with very numerous approximate 

 serrated segments, those of the sterile frond linear acumi- 

 nate entire decurvedly subfalcate generally decurrent at the 

 base and forming a more or less distinct decurved lobe in 

 the sinus, terminal one the smallest, segments of the fertile 

 frond less gibbous or lobulate at the decurrcnt base than the 

 sterile, "stipes paleaceous." — Labill. Sert. Austr. Caledon. 

 p. 3. t. 4, 5. 



Ilab. New Caledonia, Labillurdiere, C. Moore. Isle of Pines, on margins of 

 streams, and in Aneiteum, M'Gitlivray and Milne (Denham's Voyage of 

 II. M.S. Herald). — This must be a very fine species, of which I regret that my 

 specimens, though a foot to a foot and a half long, do not exhibit stipes or 

 caude.x. Mr. C. Moore, as well as M. Labillardiore, describes the Fern as arbo- 

 reous, having a caudcx 2-3 feet high. The fronds bear very numerous segments 

 nearly a span long, very approximate both in the sterile and fertile plant. La- 

 billardiure has represented two states of the plant (t. 4, 5) ; the latter has the 

 closest resemblance to our specimens, but the ear-like, decurrent base of the 

 segments, especially in the fertile frond, is more distinct than in ours. 



5. L. discolor, Willd, ; caudex very stout ascending pale- 

 aceous especially at the extremity clothed with the bases of 

 the old stipites, scales subulate fulvous dark-brown or black, 

 fronds tufted at the apex of the caudex including the more 

 or less elongated stipes 1-3 feet long erect coriaceous gla- 

 brous often tawny or reddish-brown beneath, sterile fronds 

 broad-lanceolate shortly acuminate generally much attenu- 

 ated at the base deeply pinnatifid almost to the rachis with 

 numerous horizontally patent linear or linear-oblong sub- 

 acute or acuminated segments varying much in length the 

 base always the broadest, lowest segments often distinct and 

 apart small, fertile fronds narrow-oblong elongated pinnated, 

 pinnre numerous approximated linear acute or obtuse more 

 or less dilated at the base sessile, involucres much lacerated, 

 stipes often dark-chestnut-brown even black in the fertile 

 froml—lVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 293. Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal. 

 ii. p. 30. Stegania discolor, A. Rich. Fl. Voy. Astral. Bot. 

 p. 87. Stegania falcata, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holt. p. 153. 

 Onoclea discolor, Sw. Si/n. Fil. p. 111. Osmunda discolor, 



