fi LOMARIA. 



Forst. Prodr. n. 113. Hemionitis discolor, Schkuhr, Fil. 

 p. 7. /. A. {named H. rufa on the plate). Onoclea nuda. 

 Lab. Fl. Nov. HoH. ii. p. 96. t. 246. Stegania nuda, Br. 

 Prodr. Fl. Nov, Holl. p. 153. Lomaria lanceolata, Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Antarct. i. p. 110 {not Spreng.). 



Ilab. Throughout all the islands of New Zealand, abundant, Forster, etc. 

 Lord Auckland's group and Caniphell's Island, J. D. Hooker. Tasmania, La- 

 billardiere. Brown, R. Gunn, J. D. Hooker. New Holland, Sieber, Fl. tnijrta, 

 n. 24 J ; Stone Quarry Rock, Argyll Co., AH. Cunningham; Sealer's Cove, 

 Victoria, F. Mueller.—" It is generally," says Dr. Hooker, in his New Zealand 

 Flora, " easy to distinguish this from L. lanceolata by the red colour of the 

 under side of the frond, but this is not always the case." I may add, too, that 

 it has much affinity with L. attenuata, Willd., especially the green-fronded 

 state of the plant ;'ueverthelcss there are differences, which if not constant, 

 j'et are helps to recognize this species : among them may be reckoned the more 

 elongated and narrower form of the frond, tapering downwards, the great 

 number of segments or pinnae, and consequently the shorter and more com- 

 pacted, and at the same time more robust habit. The scales of the caudex are 

 often black; the stipes, especially that of the fertile frond, deep chestnut-coloured 

 or even black also ; the pinna; of the fertile fronds are sometimes more widely 

 apart and destitute of fructification at the broad bases, giving a peculiar appear- 

 ance well represented in Schkuhr, I.e. ; the caudex is stouter and more as- 

 cending : yet much of this may be the etFect of climate, and it may possibly be 

 a more southern form of that variable species L. attenuata, luxuriating in the 

 moist atmosphere of New Zealand. 



6. L. attenuata, Willd. ; caudex long horizontal stout very 

 densely clothed with long subulate ferruginous chaffy scales, 

 fronds remote upon the caudex stipitate broad-lanceolate 

 1-2 feet and more long acuminate much attenuated belovv 

 coriaceous glabrous, sterile frond deeply nearly to the rachis 

 pinnatifid below pinnate with the ])inn0e often gradually 

 diminishing in size till at the base they form minute lobes 

 or tubercles, segments horizontally patent approximate long 

 and sharply acuminate entire or subserrate the bases not 

 decurrent, the sinus very narrow acute, fertile fronds pin- 

 nated, pinnee linear a little remote sessile but not decurrent, 

 the points apiculate, stipes short scaly. — JVilld. Sp. PI. v. 

 p. 290. Pre.9/, Tent. Pterid. p. 143. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 68. 

 Onoclea attenuata, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 112 and 2>0S. Blechnum 

 attenuatum, Metten. Fit. Hort. Bot. Lips. p. 64. t. 3. /. 1-6. 

 Lomaria decrescens, Fee, Sine. Mem. dcs Foug. p. 24. t. 9. 

 /.I. L. Meridensis, Klotzsch in Linnaa, xx. p. 345, L. 

 circinata, Boj. Hort. Maurit. p. 406, and in Herb. Hook. 



Hab. Mauritius, Groendal (Sw.), Sieber, Syn. Fit. n. 20, Wall. Cat. n. 33, 

 Bojer, Sieber, n. 21 (L. variabilis, WiUd.), Ilelsinger and Bojer. Bourbon, 

 Herb. Nostr. ex Herb. Mas. Par. Tropical America : West Indian Islands, St. 

 Vincent (fronds 2 J feet long; one specimen with the lower half fertile, and 

 narrow-linear pinnaj, upper half sterile, pinnatifid). Rev. L. Guilding ; Dominica, 



