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Dr.Imray; CnhA, Linden, n. 2019 {Fee), C. fVright, PL Cub. n. 8G4 ; Brazil, 

 Organ Mountains, Gardner, n. 141 and 141; Columbia, Triana, n. 11; Antio- 

 quia, Mr.Jervhe; Merida, ilfonVr, w. 297 ; Venezuela, Funck and Schlim, n. 979, 

 Fendler, n. 308. Natal, Gueinzius {Jide Klotzsch in Linnaa, xviii. p. IIG). 

 Society Islands, Bidtvi/l; frond unusually large, with very numerous segments, 

 very much resembling the L. giyantea of Kaulf., from the Cape. Raoul or 

 Sunday (Kermadee) Islands, South Pacific, Milne and M'Gillicray ; common 

 form, but fronds tender, very green, segments very close, serrated. Aneiteuni 

 Island, M'Gillivray and Milne ; a very remarkable form, especially in the sterile 

 frond, of which the segments arc very broad, nearly three-quarters of an inch, 

 not tapering, but the same width throughout their whole length, singularly 

 abrupt at the apex, where there is, in the specimens of both collectors, a deep 

 notch, so as to be bifid. The colour is very dark blackish-green, as if the plant 

 inhabited very wet localities. It may perhaps be considered a monstrosity. 

 Ovalau, Fecjec Islands, Milne. Norfolk Island, All. Cunninf/ham, Dr. 31' ll'illiam, 

 Milne, C. J. Simmons, Esq., Dr. V. Thomson. — If the stout, elongated caudex, 

 clothed with dense, long, imbricated, fulvous, bright, chaffy scales, and the 

 general form of the sterile and fertile fronds, and the very acuminated sterile 

 and long fertile ])inna3, be attended to, this is an easily recognized species, closely, 

 however, bordering upon L. lanceolata, Spr. L. Meridensis, Kl., according to a 

 specimen from the author, I should consider identical with L. attenuala. 



7. L, pteropus, Kze. ; "frond coriaceous thin margined 

 glabrous elliptical attenuated at each extremity, sterile 

 deeply pinnatifid subsinuate at the base and very decurrent 

 {longissime decurrenle) into a short stipes, lower segments 

 divergent, upper ones patenti-divergent approximate, all 

 oblong acuminate apex rather oljtuse, margin recurved sub- 

 repand, fertile on an elongated nearly scaleless stipes pin- 

 nated, pinnee linear adnato-dccurrent at the base, lower ones 

 curved cuspidate, caudex creeping and as well as the ascend- 

 ing base of the stipites paleaceous," Kunze, in Schkuhr's 

 Fil. Suppl. p. 97. t. 46. Acrostichum heterophyllum, 

 Racldi, Fil. Bras. p. 5. t. 17, and in Herb. Nostr. {but sterile 

 fronds only) . L. attenuata, Klotzsch in Herb. Nostr. 



Ilab. Brazil: jMandiocca Woods, near Rio, Raddi ; South Brazil, Sellow. — 

 This is chiefly distinguished from L. attenuata by the confluent and decurrent 

 short lower segments or pinntc forming a broad wing to the upper portion of 

 the stipes. The caudex, though elongated, is but laxly paleaceous ; but in other 

 respects it can scarcely be distinguished from L. attenuata, M'illd., and of this 

 work. Indeed, one of three specimens from Dr. Klotzsch has the base of the 

 frond exactly as in the species last mentioned. 



8. L. Plumieri, Desv. ; tall, caudex elongated tliick rugose 

 nearly erect radicant paleaceo-squamose towards the apex, 

 stipites subfasciculate but from different parts of the upper 

 portion of the caudex naked, fronds ovato-lanceolate abrupt 

 (or truncate) at the base, sterile ones deeply almost to the 

 base pinnatifid coriaceo-submembranaceous, segments nume- 

 rous from a dilated base broad-lanceolate moderately acumi- 



