10 LOMARIA. 



the pinnse, involucre large and obvious in an early state the 

 opposite ones meeting at the back membranous. (Tab. 

 CXLVL)—Spren(/. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 67. Pr. Tent. Pterid. 

 p. 147. L. polypodioides, Desv. in Mem. Sac. Linn. vi. 288. 

 L. fragilis, Liehm. Fil. Mex. p. 80. Blechnum onocleoides, 

 Siv. Sj/n. Fil. p. 115. Wil/d. Sp. PL p. 409. Onoclea 

 polypodioides, Siu. FL Ind. Occ. iii. p. 1585. Osmunda poly- 

 podioides, Sw. Prodr. 127. Spicanta onocleoides, Pr. Epim. 

 Bat. p. 115. 



Hah. On trees, interior of Jamaica, Sirartz. Martinique, Kohaut. Mexico, 

 Sckiede, Liebmann. St. Vincent, West Indies, Rev. L. Guildimj. Summit of 

 Loinodel Gobo, Cuba, climbing trees with a caudex from 6 to 20 feet long, C. 

 Wright, n. 8G4 (in part). Pasto, Ecuador, elev. 10,000 feet, Jameson. — This 

 Fern I l)elieve to be the true Onoclea polypodioides of Swartz ; but though I 

 here retain it as a species, in deference to the opinion of others, I am far from 

 sure that intermeiUate states may not be found inchcating a passage to L. atte- 

 nuata ; and it is not a little remarkable that one of my best-marked specimens, 

 from Mr. C. Wright, found in Cuba, is acc()m])anied by specimens bearing the 

 same number, atul which I have little hesitation in placing under L. attenuata. 

 Indeed, M. Fee's L. decrescens, so well figured in his 7th Mcmoire on New 

 Ferns, t. 9 (a Cuba plant), and that which I here bring under L. onocleoides 

 from Pasto (Dr. Jameson), do seem to connect the two supposed species very 

 intimately. 



12. L. giffantea, Kaulf. ; "fronds pinnate, pinnoe adnata 

 all of them linear-setaceous, stipes paleaceous subcrinite." — 

 Kaulf. En. Fil. p. 150. — Blechnum giganteum ("fronds 

 glabrous epaleaceous pinnated, sterile pinnae adnate linear 

 long-acuminate subfalcate entire with elevated dots on the 

 margin above, indusia suberose, stipes paleaceous below.") 

 Schlecht. Fil. Cap. p. 36. t. 20 atid 22. / 1.— Var. 

 sterile pinnec (rather the segments of a pinnatifid frond) 

 entire or pinnatifid. Lomaria heterophylla, Desv. in Mag. d. 

 Ges. Naturf. Ft: z. Berl. v. p. 330. Pappe and Raivs. Syn. 

 Fil. Afr. Austral, p. 21. L. hamata, Kaulf. En. Fil. p. 150. 

 L. decipiens, Pappe and Raivs. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austral, p. 29 ? 



Ilab. Cape of Good Hope : Table Mountain, Bergius, Dr. Alexander, Mund, 

 Carmichael, Harvey ; Uitenhage, Zeyher ; Forests of George, Drege (common 

 form, but with the name L. heterophylla) ; Albany, Atherstone ; Natal, 

 Gueinzius ; Macalisberg, Sanderson. — Var. heterophylla, Cape {Desvanx), 

 Mund; sterile oidy. — I give the specific character above of this species, both of 

 Kaulfuss and Schlechtendal (which are a little at variance), because there are 

 authors who are entitled to much respect; but if it had not been for such 

 authority, I should have been led to consider this a luxuriant local form of 

 L. attenuata, Willd. Indeed, Schlechtendal himself alludes to the close affinity, 

 but says of his gigantea : " L. attenuatce, Willd., valde affinis est hxc species, 

 qua; ditfert pinnis multo longioribus et angustioribus, linearibus elongato- 

 acuminatis pinna terminaii breviore, stipite ad basin latioribus et majoribua 

 paleis obsito." All this is very correct if an extreme form of L. gigantea be 



