28 LOMARIA. 



Island, Cape Horn), Capt. Ph. King (one of the specimens has very crowded pinnre, 

 having at the inferior base a hirge, oblong, acute auricle which laps over the base of 

 the one below it in a very peculiar and regular manner, at an oblique angle from 

 the rachis), Bougainville, Brackenridge, Capt. Collinson. — South Chili, frequent, 

 Chiloe, Capt. Ph. King. — Juan Fcrnanilez, Bertero, n. 1547 (in Herb. Nostr.; 

 rachis and pinnules woolly, with lax, deciduous, paleaceous scales. This is the 

 L. lanuginosa of Kze., and Blechnum cycadifolium of Sturm, 1. c, and Bertero re- 

 marks on his specimen "Lorn. Mageltanica, &n diversa? Caudex 3-pedalis, in 

 sylvaticis montium, 1830"). — Tristan d'Acunha, Pelit-Thonars, Capt. Carmichael 

 {L. robusta, Carni. ; rachises very chatfy, with membranaceous deciduous scales), 

 M'Gillivrag and Milne, in Denham's Voyage of the Herald: young specimens 

 very paleaceous, older ones quite naked. — Brazil : common near Tijucca ; moist 

 bushy places near San Pedro, Gardner, n. 4396. Boggy places, near the summit 

 of the Organ Mountains ; "a Tree-fern, 4 feet high" (in the caudex), L. zamioides, 

 Gardn. MS. n. 5930.— S. Brazil (Z,. obiusifolia, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 143, tide 

 Klotzsch in Herb. Nostr.) : Uruguay, Mr. Fox ,- Rio Grande do Sul, Twcedie, 

 with caudex 2 feet high. — British Guiana, Robert and Richard Schombnrgk, 

 n. 1162 {L. Schoniburgkii, Kl. in Linnaea, xxii. p. 346).— New Granada, Prov. 

 Ocaiia, elev. (7) 8-10,000 feet, Schlim, n. 394 (L. aurata. Fee, 8me Mem. Nouv. 

 Foug. p. 71). — Merida, Moritz, n. 301 (L. Moritziana, Kl. in Linn. xx. p. 327). — 

 Venezuela, Fendler, n. 340 ; sterile pinnre paler beneath than usual. — Peru, Ma- 

 thews, n. 1795 ; sterile pinnte % of an inch broad, very rich, almost golden-tawny 

 beneath. — \A'. Indies: Montserrat, Ryan {L. Ryani, Kaulf., and L. rufa, Spr.). — 

 South Africa {L. Capensis and L. cinnamomea, Auct.) : Table and other mountains, 

 Bergius, Drege, Ecklon and Zeyher, Dr. Alexander, and most travellers ; Milne, 

 in Denham's Voy. of H. M.S. Herald (one specimen has the greater part of the 

 fertile pinna; soriferous only in the upper half, and narrowly acuminate, giving a 

 broadly subulate form to the pinna;). Macalisberg, Dr. Sanderson. (This form 

 exactly corresponds with the figure of L. Ryani, Kaulf. in Kuiize, Anal. Pterid. 

 t. 12, which he compares with L. rufa, Spr., and L. lanuginosa, both states of 

 L. Magellanica). — Bourbon, Bory ; Mauritius, Bojer, Bouton (my specimens from 

 both these countries have in the sterile fronds jjinnules continued nearly to the 

 base of the stipes, but gradually becoming smaller [A an inch long], and spa- 

 thulate). — Madagascar, Dr. Lyall, Bojer {L. coarctata, Boj. MS. in Herb. Nostr. ; 

 ail interesting suite of specimens, from the infant state with almost a simple 

 frond, but breaking below into small orbicular i)innules. Sterile fronds with 

 pinna; narrow, and some of them fertile in their upper half). 



This is a species of less extended geographical distribution than its ally 

 L. procera, much more constant to its normal character, that is, much less liable 

 to sport, yet a goodly immber of species have been formed of it. The scales at 

 the summit of the caudex are most remarkable, and alone suffice to distinguish it, 

 and, fortunately, they extend some little way up the stipes, and thus are often 

 preserved on Herbarium specimens. They are more like bristles than scales, 

 very slender, narrow-subulate, an inch to an inch and a half long, dense and 

 strongly falcate, quite different from the soft and broad pale ferruginous deciduous 

 palea; which invest the rachis and pinme in a young state. The entire, generally 

 blunt sterile pinna;, also their thick coriaceous character, the different colour of 

 the two sides, and the disposition to become tawny, or of a cinnamon or almost 

 golden colour beneath, are important characteristics. In general the base of the 

 frond is contiactcd, and the pinna; are not only sessile, but frequently adnate, and 

 the margins seem to be always free from real serratures. 



29. L. Dalgairnsice, Pappe and Raws,; "fronds pinnate 

 membranaceous, sterile pinnae alternate remote sessile lan- 

 ceolate-oblong narrowed at both ends pale beneath glabrous, 



