22 LOMARIA. 



Zeit. vi. p. 143. Acrostichum triquetrum. Wall. Cat. n. 23. 

 in part. Stenochlccna ? pycnophylla, Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 165. 

 Lomaria scandens, "i)e Vriese in Herb. Kze." L. callosa, 

 Fee, Gen. Fit. p. 70. Plagiogyria adenopus, T. Moore, MS. 



Ilab. Nepal, Dr. WalUch. Assam, Khasia, Bootan, Griffith, Booth. Sikkim, 

 7-10,000 feet, Ilooi: fil. and Thomson. Java {De Vriese), Thos. Lobb, n. 274, 

 (j?( Herb. Nostr.). — Tliis species is mixed with Dr. Wallich's Acrostichum 

 triquetrum in his distributed plants, and in his IIS. description he says : — 

 " Pinna terniiiialis proximis phiries longior, gracilis, sessilis v. petiolata" {L. 

 euphlebia, Kze.j, " ««?ic lobato-pinnatifida" {L. pycnophylla, Kze.). When he 

 observes, too, of the pinna;, " subtus parallele et copiosissime venulosae," he had 

 our present plant in view, of which it is characteristic, as is also the very spread- 

 ing pinnaj, their truncated base, and, above all, the almost constant presence of one, 

 rarely two, prominent, oblong, obtuse glands on the under side, at the setting-on 

 of the pinna;. Kunze's and Mettenius's descriptions of L. pycnophylla leave no 

 doubt of its identity with our Himalayan and Java specimens. 



28. L. (Plagiogyria) glauca, Bl. ; caudex . . . ?, stipites 

 elongated subcompressed tetragonous with two furrows in 

 front, the base dilated triquetrous on the anterior face bear- 

 ing spongy depressed glands, fronds ovato-oblong 1-2 feet 

 long pinnated, sterile pinnte numerous 3-5 inches long 

 chartaceous horizontally spreading sessile or very nearly so 

 lanceolate acuminated the base truncated beneath having a 

 gland as much attached to the rachis as to the very short 

 petiole, the margins finely dentato-serrulate rather more 

 strongly at the apex white and almost powdery beneath 

 green above with a tinge of red, veins copious compact 

 simple and forked, ultimate short pinnae confluent into a 

 pinnatifid and lobed caudate apex, fertile pin nee narrow- 

 linear obtuse erecto-patent on very short petioles which 

 sometimes bear a gland beneath, sori and involucres as in 

 other Plagioffijrice. — Bl. En. Fil. p. 2()4. Kze. in Bot. Zeit. 

 viii. p. 143; in Schkh. Fil. Suppl. ii. p. 24. t. 138 {excellent). 

 Plagiogyria glauca, Metten. Plarjiog. p. 9. 



Hab. Java, Blume, Zollinijer, n. 231 and 335 (Kze.). Khasia Hills, alt. 6000 

 feet. Hook. fil. and Thomson. — The quite white, and in the more perfect speci- 

 mens powdery substance of the under side of this beautiful Lomaria, gives it an 

 imniistakable character ; but in other respects it has the closest affinity with L. 

 pycnophylla. It is not so conspicuously glanduligerous at the base and under side 

 of the sterile pinnules, and they seem generally obsolete on the fertile pinnae, 

 or more depressed. The sterile pinna; are less tinely acuminated, but the 

 other marks, I fear, are not quite to be depended upon, and there is the same 

 degree of confluence of the uppermost pinna;, which so well distinguishes that 

 species from its near ally, L. euphlebia. Though first found in Java, L. ylauca 

 is not confined to that island, but is met with, apparently not abundantly, in 

 Khasia. 



29. L. procera, Spr. ; caudex stout woody elongated clothed 



