ACROSTICIIUM, § STENOCHL.KXA. 249 



fertile fronds, stipites fi-8 incbCvS long slender subulato- 

 squaniose towards the base, fronds 2-4 inches long tripinnate 

 ovate, pinnules or segments much contracted linear, ultimate 

 ones sliort nodulose sessile remote, sori copious near the 

 margin appearing to be universal on both sides. — Folybo- 

 trya, /. S)n. in Hook. J own. Bot. iii. p. 401 [name only). 

 Kze. in Schk. Fil. Suppl. p. 142. t. 62. Fee, AcrosL p. 72. 



Ilal). Luzon, Cinning, n. 2G, Thos. Lobh. — An elegant small species having a 

 caiidex representing a small rouiulisli rhizome, and fronds with the general aspect 

 of an Anemia, rather than of a Polybotrya. 



109. A. (Polybotrya?) nanum, Hook.; "small glabrous, 

 fronds cajspitose ; sterile ones pinnatifidly lobate subdentate, 

 terminal lol)e large, stipes short, costa narrowly channelled 

 beneath ; fertile ones pinnated, pinnae few, lateral ones ovate, 

 terminal one linear, root fibrous, fibres very long." — Polybo- 

 trya, Fee, Acrost. p. 75. t. 38. y. 1. 



Hab. "New Zealand, //?z/7e/."— Fee's figure represents a small New Zealand 

 Fern only 1 inch long (stipes included), which calls to mind an unusually small 

 and starved specimen of Lomaria nigra (vol. iii. p. 35, of this work, and Hook. Ic. 

 PI. t. 960). Indeed, I feel confident that this view is correct, and that no form 

 of Puhjbotrya has been found in New Zealand. 



§ 4. STiixocHL.ENA. — Fronds ample, dimorphous, pinnate or bipinnate. Veins 

 free, extending to, and united with, the tliickened margin. — Gen. Stenochlscna, 

 J. Sm. Lomariobotrys, Fe'e. {A mere subsection, if that, of Lomariopsis.) 



110. A. (Stenochliena) scandens, J. Sm. ; caudex very long 

 scandent thicker than a swan's quill furrowed scaleless but 

 rooting with short tufted radiating fibres from the angles, 

 stipites 4-5 inches long stout, fronds distant 1-2-3 feet and 

 more long ovato-lanceolate firm-coriaceous glossy pinnated ; 

 sterile pinnte 3-9 inches long 1-H inch broad lanceolate 

 acuminated rarely subfalcate and obliquely cuncate at the 

 base petioled, the petiole articulated upon the rachis, the 

 margin thickened entire or more frequently spinuloso-serrate, 

 veins very close elevated extending to and united with the 

 thickened margin ; fertile fronds 6 inches sometimes 1 foot 

 long 1^-2 lines wide petioled linear acuminate; sometimes 

 the lower half of the frond is sterile and the upper half fer- 

 tile. — Stenochlaena scandens, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 

 p. 149. Jlook. Gen. Fil. t. 105. B. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 77- 

 Moore. Onoclea, Siv. Syn. Fil. pp. 112 and 309. Lomaria, 

 JfUld. Sp. ri. p. 293. L. limonifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 30. 

 Stenochl. Blumeana, Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 163. S. fraxinifolia, 



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