36 LOMARIA. 



beneath oblong-lanceolate pinnate, sterile ones short-stipitate, 

 pinnae sessile approximate subimbricate erecto-patent from a 

 subcordate or cuneate base oblong obtuse apiculate mar- 

 gined, margin slender recurved waved punctate above the 

 base of the pinna repand towards the apex unequally ser- 

 rated closely and obsoletely veined, costa a little prominent 

 beneath furrowed above evanescent at the apex, fertile frond 

 long-stipitate, pinnae linear-oblong flexuose acute apiculate 

 at the sterile apex, sori prominent, indusium distant from 

 the margin brown at length torn, stipes of both fronds 

 brown the base and creeping caudex fusco-paleaceous." Kze. 

 in Linncea, xxii. p. 57 G- 



Hal). Brazil. Minas Geraes, Regnell. Rio das Contas, Martius. — " A species 

 with almost the habit of Blechnum serrulatum, and having an affinity with Lo- 

 maria obtusifolia, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 143," — but which I can find nowhere de- 

 scribed. 



41. L. ? speciosa, Bl. ; "fronds pinnate coriaceous sori- 

 ferous at the extremity, pinnaj alternate petiolate, sterile 

 ones ovate or oval-oblong acuminate rather acute at the base 

 entire, veins parallel reticulated (!), fertile linear elongate, 

 stipes glabrous, caudex scandent." Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 202. 



Hab. Primeval woods of Java, Blume. — " Lomaria fraxinea, Willd., differs 

 from this in having the piunse much smaller and cordate at the base." ^Vill- 

 denow assimilates his L. fraxinea to Acrostichum sorbifoUum, an American 

 plant {Lomarioi)sis sorbifolia, Fee), but it is evident that Blume's plant, with its 

 anastomosing venation, is something quite distinct. 



42. L. rotundifolia, Bl. (not Colenso) ; "sterile frond un- 

 divided 3-lobed or pinnate, pinnules subsessile coriaceous 

 glabrous serrulate the margin revolute, lateral ones subro- 

 tund, terminal oblongo-lanceolate acuminate obliquely cuneate 

 at the base." Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 204. 



Hab. " Lofty mountains of Java." 



43. L. gracilis, Bl. ; " caudex scandent aculeate, sterile 

 frond pinnate purplish, pinnae lanceolate acuminate erose, 

 fertile ones decompound, segments narrow-linear subljifid." 

 ^Bl. 



Hab. On trees in tlie mountains of Java, Bl. 



44. L. unguiculata, Fee; "fronds rigid pinnate, stipes 

 canaliculato-striated above partially reddish (parce rufo) 

 squamose bearing 8 fascicles of vessels, 2 superior ones 

 smaller, 2 intermediate ones larger, four inferior minute, 

 sterile pinnae approximate subimbricated lanceolate shortly 



