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terminal ones confluent at their bases, fertile pinnae linear 

 straight erect sharp-pointed, involucres involvent lacerato- 

 ciliate, stipes and racliises clothed with M'oolly ferruginous 

 scales." Pappe and Ruivs. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austral, p. 27. 



Ilab. Dense forests of tlie Knysna, Miss Dalgairns, 185G. — "This appears to 

 be the Fern collected by Drege in the Dii Toil's Kloof, and noticed by Kunze 

 (liinnaca, x. p. 50(3) as a variety of L. Boryana {L. Magellanica). It does not 

 however answer satisfactorily to the short diagnosis, and seems to be distinct." 



30. L. cycadoides, Pappe and Raws.; fronds pinnate co- 

 riaceous, pinnae attenuate remote erect sessile glabrous 

 auricled at the base, sterile ones lanceolate oblong blunt 

 very veiny revolute glossy entire dotted at the margin, 

 fertile pinnae linear-lanceolate recurved at the apex, racliises 

 and angular stipes smooth, caude.K scaly comose. — Pappe and 

 Raws. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austral, p. 28 {not Lomaria cycadifolia, 

 Colla). 



Hah. " Woods of Natal. Plant, n. 33.'). — A sterile specimen of the same Fern, 

 from Madagascar, is preserved in Dr. Pappe's collection." — May not this be a 

 form of Z,. Magellanica, which see, and which is also found in Aladagascar.' 



31. 1j. linariafolia, Pr. ; "fronds elliptico-lanceolate pin- 

 nate, pinnae of the sterile fronds sessile alternate lanceolate 

 acuminate entire coriaceous cuneate at the superior base cor- 

 date at the inferior, pinnae of the fertile fronds elongate cus- 

 pidate sessile, rachis and costte paleaceous beneath.'' Pr. 

 Reliq. Hcenk. p. 52. 



Hab. Peru. — " Appears to be closely allied to L. lineata, Willd., and differs 

 only in the entire pinnae." 



32. L. spissa. Fee ; "fronds ovate rigid pinnate pinnatifid 

 towards the apex reddish when dry, stipes depressed scarcely 

 channelled above somewliat winged beneath, bundles of ves- 

 sels eight, six inferior disposed in a circle, two inferior distant 

 elongated straight, sterile pinnic thick opaque lanceolate rather 

 acute patulous rounded at the base, inferior and intermediate 

 ones adnate, veins approximate, costa and rachis scaly, fertile 

 pinnae linear obtuse with a callous mucro, indusium very 

 broad at the maturity of the capsules bullate, receptacle thick 

 connivent with the costa, sporangia large ovate mixed with 

 narrow-lanceolate scales, annulus with 20-22 articulations, 

 spores ovate thick smooth." Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 71. — " L. Bo- 

 ryana, K::e. {non HVld.)." 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope, Drege. — The author compares it with L. Boryana, 

 Willd., in which however "there arc no scales, the spores are much larger and 



