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at the extremity as well as the l^asc of tlie stipes with large 

 ovate or lanceolate acuminate ferruginous opaque chaffy scales, 

 fronds tufted ample from a span to 4 feet high including the 

 stipes, when young densely clothed with the imbricating 

 more or less deciduous scales just described, oblong-ovate 

 pinnated, pinnce very numerous on the larger specimens 

 generally horizontally patent, sterile ones (often partially 

 fertile) more or less coriaceous usually brown when dry 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate 3 inches to a span long often an 

 inch wide suljfalcate sessile or slightly pctiolate truncate or 

 cordate at the base and there often unequal, one side forming 

 a more or less rounded lobe obtuse or acute or acuminate, at 

 the apex the margins finely dentato-serrate rarely entire, 

 terminal pinna free often very long, veins close compact very 

 patent simple or forked near their base, fertile pinntc linear 

 more or less broad from 2-6 inches long distant and spread- 

 ing or crowded and erecto-patent sessile, lower ones often 

 petiolate obtuse or terminated with a caudate point, sori with 

 very crowded capsules, involucres marginal or subintramar- 

 ginal large at first convolute and fornicate at length spread 

 very much broken into deep lobes. — Spreng. Syst. Veyet. iv. 

 p. 65. A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal, in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. p. 263 

 {excL Stjn. Rich.). Hook. Ic. PL t. 127, 128. Hook. fil. 

 Ft. Antarct. i. jo. 110; Fl. Neiv Zeal. ii. p. 27- /. 75. Var. 

 minor. Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Voy. p. 127. Hombr. and 

 Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Crypt, t. 2 E. ? {sine descr., scales at 

 the base of the stipes narrower and longer). L. latifolia, 

 Colenso, in Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sc. ii. p. 176. L. Capensis, 

 Willd. Sp. PL V. p. 291. Raivson and Pappe, En. Fil. Cap. 

 p. 27. Blechnum Capense, Schlecht. Adumbr. Fil. p. 34. 

 t. 18, Onoclca Ca])ensis, Sio. Syn. Fil. p. 111. Osmunda, 

 L. Mant. Stegania procera [and S. minor), Br. Prodr. 

 p. 153. L. Chilensis, Klfs. En. Fil. p. 154. Hook. Gen. Fil. 

 t. 64 B, sterile and fertile 2)inn(e, and analysis. Gay, FL 

 Chit. vi. p. 480. Blechnum Chil., Metten. FiL LechL p.W. 

 Sturm. En. Fil. Chil. p. 23. L. spectabilis ?, Liebm. Fil. Mex. 

 p. S3. Rich. Fl. Nov. ZeL t. 247 (fertile frond only). L. li- 

 neata, Willd. I. c. p. 290 [venation more distinct). Osmunda 

 and Onoclea, Siv. L. striata, JVilld. I.e. p. 291. Blechnum 

 procerum. Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. ii. jo. 87. t. 247- Parablechnuni 

 procerum, Presl, Epini. Bot. p. 109. Onoclea procera, Spreng. 

 in Schrad. Journ. iii. p. 267. Osmunda procera, Forst. Prodr. 

 n. 414. Asplenium procerum, Bernh. Act. Erf. 1802, p. 4. 



