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subulate hair-like scales, stipites four inches to a span long 

 stramineous slender, the base to the height of one or two 

 inches clothed Avith the same paleaceous hairs half an inch 

 or morelongfasciculate,5^e?77e fronds G-12 inches longovato- 

 lanceolate acuminate truncate at the base chartaceous rather 

 than coriaceous deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid inferior 

 pairs distinct so that the lower portion of the sterile frond 

 is pinnate, segments or pinnec from a broad base oblong- 

 ensiform subfalcate acuminate or obtuse entire or very ob- 

 soletely crenato-lobate, the margin thickened, veins rather 

 distant once or twice forked more or less villous or glabrous 

 clubbed at the apex and extending to the margin, inferior 

 pair of pinnules deflexed, superior ones sometimes con- 

 tracted and fertile, fertile fronds aljout the size of the sterile 

 ones deeply pinnatifid pinnate only below, segments from a 

 dilated base, linear distant, involucres membranaceous mar- 

 ginal toothed and lacerated. — L. vulcanica, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. 

 p. 202. Hook. Ic. PI. X. t. 969. Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal. ii. 

 p. 29. L. deltoides and L. deflexa, Colenso in Tasm. Phil. 

 Journ. L. villosa, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. G8. L. pilosa. Brack. 

 Fil. U. St. Expl. Eap. p. 125. t. 15. — ^. nana; caudex very 

 thick and large, fronds 4-5 inches long very rigid and 

 coriaceous. L. muraria, Colenso, 3ISS. 



Ilab. Java, Blume ; Mount Gedei, Thos. Lohh, n. 266. Fiji Islands, Ovolau, 

 etc., Milne, Brackenridge. S. Pacific Islands, Mr. Bidwill. Tasmania, in moun- 

 tain districts, Ronald Gunn, ]£sq. New Zealand, northern island, Sinclair, Co- 

 lenso. — 0. On rocks, Colenso. — A distinct and well-marked species, remarkable 

 for the deflexed lowest pair of pinnae, and such have also very unequal bases to 

 the pinnae, the superior base dilated as it were upwards, and the inferior base 

 rounded off. The same characters are found in a dwarf, apparently stunted 

 variety found by Mr. Colenso on dry rocks. The caudex is even stouter and 

 longer than the larger forms, but the fronds are quite small. The Tasnianian 

 and New Zealand specimens are identical with those from Java. The L. villosa 

 of M. Fee sufficiently accords with our plant, and his description is made from 

 Mr. Lobb's Java specimens, n. 26(3, which are identical with ours from Java. 

 Mr. Bidwill's specimens, and cue of iMr. ^lilne's, have pinna; partially sterile 

 and partially fertile on the same frond. 



16. L. aspera, Kb; small, caudex stout elongated clothed with 

 wiry roots sarmentose scaly at the apex, sarments frondiform 

 linear attenuated at each extremity lobato-pinnatifid proli- 

 ferous, fronds ceespitose a span long, sterile ones coriaceo- 

 membranaceous lanceolate scarcely acuminate below remark- 

 able attenuated into a very short stipes deeply almost quite 

 to the costa piimatifid, segments numerous ajjproximate 

 sometimes subimbricated ovato-oblong obtuse rarely apicu- 



