8 LOMARIA. 



nate quite entire liorizontal rarely subfalcate the lower ones 

 (scarcely shorter than those al)ove them) sometimes a little 

 deflexed all minutely and closely pellucido-punctate, veins 

 rather distant simple or mostly once-forked, apices clavate 

 extending to the margin and there glandular, piTnia; of the 

 fertile frond linear elongated acuminate distant curved ses- 

 sile and slightly decurrent 3-nervcd, the involucre conspi- 

 cuous set on as it were on the outer nerve which on the 

 upper side forms a kind of fold and gives a narrow margin 

 as if the insertion were intramarginal. — a. segments nume- 

 rous approximate, the sinus very acute and narrow. L. 

 Plumieri, Desv. in May. Nut. Ber. 1811, p. 315. Desv. in 

 Mem. Soc. Linn. vi. p. 288. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 142. Fee, 

 Gen. Fil. p. 68. Klotzsch in Limiaa, xx. p. 344. L. Mar- 

 tinicensis, Spreng. Neue Entd. 1822, p. 5. L. divergens, 

 Kze. in Linncea, ix. p. 57, and Blechnum divergens, Mett. 

 3ISS. in Herb. Nostr. Lomaridium Plumieri, Pres/, Epimel. 

 p. 155. Polypodium rigidis et acuminatis pinnulis. Plum. 

 Fil. t. 90. — /S. segments numerous distant, sinus broad acute 

 in the centre. — 7. almost pinnate, segments sometimes few 

 in number remote, the inferior base very decurrent l)ut 

 scarcely uniting with the segment or pinnae below. 



Ilab. o. Martinique, Plumier. Peru, Pceppig. Columbia, Montz, n. 233 (m 

 Merb. Nostr. and Fendler, n. 309). Guarlaloupe, L Ilerminier, n. 2. Dominica, 

 Dr. Imray,n. A\. B. Guiana, Rich. Schomlurgk, n. 1190 {Klotzsch in Herb. 

 Nostr.). Brazil, shady wood l)y a small stream, Organ Mountains, Gardner, 

 n. 142. — ;8. Rio, Bou(/las. — y. Peru, Mathews, n. 1798 (segments large, 4-10). 

 N. Granada, Linden, n. 1017 (segments numeroiis, fronds large). — Kunze has 

 well characterized this species under the name of L. divergens from Peruvian 

 specimens of Pceppig, in the ninth volume of the ' Linnasa,' and has justly said of it, 

 " Similis L. attenuate, W." Here, however, the fronds are much longer and 

 broader, abrupt or truncate in circumscription, at the base not attenuated. In 

 the broader segments it more resembles L. IJ Herminieri, but there the con- 

 striction at the base of the frond is still more i-emarkable than in L. attenuata. 

 Plumier's plant, though quite likely to be the same as ours, is very imperfectly 

 represented by that author, and the sterile fronds only were known to him. 



9. L. Mexicana, Fee; "sterile fronds lanceolate termi- 

 nating in a long hastate point, the inferior segments trian- 

 gular arcuate ovoid and acuminate, stipes and rachis disco- 

 loured [discolores] naked and glabrous, young shoots are 

 linear and entire, /er/i/e fronds with segments (frondules?) 

 linear spreading, indusium continuous opening entire, rhi- 

 zome sinuous covered with lanceolate scales which are acu- 

 minate villous and loosely imijricated." — Fee, Sme. Mem. des 

 Foug. ]>. 70. 



