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tuberculose, the annulus has only IG articulations, the jjinnac are obtuse and 

 quite free at the base." It may probably be safely referred to L. Mayellanica. 



33. L. cuspidata, Kze. ; caudex " repent and as well as the 

 base of the stipites scaly", frond (including the stout stipes) 

 3 feet and more long erect rigid firm coriaceous pinnated, 

 sterile with the pinnoe remote spreading 5-6 inches long 

 exactly lanceolate tapering at the base and there sessile and 

 adnate but not decurrent the apex finely acuminate every- 

 where entire opaque, veins internal indistinct except on the 

 under side where they appear as dark close-placed patent lines 

 not in the least prominent, terminal pinnae large and in our 

 solitary specimen with a lobe (a confluent inferior pinna) on 

 one side at the base, fertile frond rather shorter than the 

 sterile, pinna? 7-8 inches long nearly opposite sessile narrow- 

 linear acuminate falcate 3-nerved at the back, involucre very 

 conspicuous brown membranaceous entire, stipes and rachis 

 stout firm very straight terete furrowed on the anterior side, 

 the back dark purple-black minutely punctated, the base 

 moderately paleaceous. (Tab. CLI.) — Kze. in Linncea, ix. 

 p. 59. 



Hab. Pampayaco, Peru, parasitic on Cyathaacece, Poeppig, 1829. On Mount 

 Campana, near Tarapota, Eastern Peru, R. Spruce, 1856. — This very distinct spe- 

 cies of Lomaria, only hitherto described from Pcpppig's Peruvian specimens, has 

 been recently found by Mr. Spruce during his remarkable journey of ten years' 

 duration across the great continent of South America, by way of the Amazon and 

 its tritjutaries, to the Pacific Ocean. The sterile pinnaj have almost exactly the 

 form and texture of the common Oleander ; but what is remarkalile, all of them 

 are not only sessile, but adnate with the rachis ; the lower ones with a breadth 

 of a quarter of an inch, the upper ones of -J an inch, yet the l)ases are not decur- 

 rent. The stipes and rachis are singularly stout, erect, terete, and rigid, almost 

 stramineous on the anterior side, the opposite side blackish-purple, and as far as 

 this colour extends (and no further), the surface is seen, under a lens, to be co- 

 vered with very minute raised points, too minute to render them sensible to the 

 touch. 



34. L. punctulata, Kze. ; caudex thick subrepent, at the 

 extremity paleaceous with dense falcato-lanceolato- subulate 

 glossy scales, fronds 1^-2 and 3 feet long lanceolate but 

 broadest upwards much contracted below pinnate, sterile 

 ones membranaceo-coriaceous, pinnte approximate very nu- 

 merous subimbricated sessile from a broad and subhastate 

 base oblongo-lanceolate gradually acuminated horizontally 

 patent subfalcate quite entire obscurely punctate at the mar- 

 gin confluent at the apex, lower ones gradually smaller and 

 tuberculiform more distant extending almost to the base of 

 the compressed sulcate stramineous stipes, the veins oblique 



