18 LOMARIA. 



3-5 inches long membranaceous subpellucid glabrous lan- 

 ceolate rather obtuse tapering below, sterile ones pinna- 

 tifid nearly to the costa, segments ovate or ol)longo-ovate 

 1^- to 2 J lines long obtuse entire or subcrcnate, /er^i/e pinnae 

 on longer stipites pinnated, pinnte about 2 lines long oblong 

 obtuse with a mucro the base more or less decurrent. — 

 Raoul, Choix de PL Nouv.-ZcL p. 9. t. 2 A. {not of Kaidfuss, 

 which is Blechnum australe). Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 

 p. 28. 



Hab. New Zealanrl, Akaroa, Middle Island, Raoul. — Dr. Hooker was led, from 

 the form and general nature of the fronds, to compare this with some of the 

 smallest and most delicate forms of L. laneeola/a, and even to confound it with 

 that state, and hence spoke of it as "not uncommon in damp woods, watercourses 

 of the Northern and Middle Islands of New Zealand." He had overlooked the 

 peculiar scales at the base of the stipes and at the extremity of the slender 

 creeping but entangled caudex, so different from those of L. lanceolata and its 

 affinities, where the scales are copious, long, and subulate. I have seen no speci- 

 mens but those of M. Raoul, obligingly communicated by him. His figure in the 

 • Choix des Plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande' is excellent, as are all the botanical 

 drawings of M. Riocreux. 



21. L. doodioides, Brack.; "stipes subtrigonous short 

 purplish smooth, sterile fronds rigid lanceolate attenuate 

 pinnato-partite, pinnae ci'owded oblong-lanceolate falcate ob- 

 tuse reflexed and crenato-dentate at the margin, fertile 

 fronds lanceolate pinnate caudato-acuminate attenuate at the 

 base, pinncE remote elongato-linear acute, indusium mem- 

 branaceous." Brack. Fil. U.S. Exjil. Exp. p. 124. 



Hab. Sandal-wood Bay, Fiji Islands, Brackenridge. — " The size and outline of 

 the sterile fronds resemble very much those of Doodia aspera, Br." Brack. 



22. L. arguta, Fee ; " sterile fronds lanceolate glabrous 

 the segments deeply dentate teeth curved ; fertile fronds 

 longer supported on a long petiole having the aspect of the 

 stem of a Scirpits and enclosing several vascular fascicles 

 (.3 ?) becoming free by the desiccation of the cellular tissue 

 which this petiole encloses in the living state, fertile seg- 

 ments linear flexuose.-" Fee, 8me. Mem. dcs Fovg. p. 70. 



Hab. Mexico ; Valley of Orizaba, Cerro del Agna, 2700 metres of alt., W. 

 Schaffner, n. 98 (1854). — "A une analogue lointaine avec la L. Spicant, 

 Desv." 



23. L. pectinata, Liebm. ; "frond thin-coriaceous glabrous 

 one-coloured a foot high, frond 7-9 inches long 2-2^- inches 

 broad (stipes 5 inches) lanceolate acute pinnatisect pinnate 

 towards the base (lacinire 30-40 on each side) diminishing 

 in size upwards, lacinisc alternate towards the base generally 



