33. LOMARIA, § ELLOMAIUA. 175 



2. L. ricil/ardii. Baker ; caudcx stout, erect, woody ; st. 3-4 in. 1., clothed 

 below with large dark-l)ro\vn lanceolate scales ; sterile fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 1-.3 in. 

 br., varying in shape from linear and entire to oblong, with a long, linear, 

 entire point and cut down within \ in. of the racliis into several pinnce on 

 each side, which are 1^-2 in. 1., ^ in. br., furnished with a distinct wavy 

 cartilaginous border and subdentate towards the apex ; the Ijase gradually 

 narrowed into an undulated wing to the racliis, with sometimes a few distinct 

 auriculate lubes ; texture coriaceous ; veins fine, rather distant ; fertile fr. quite 

 simple or pinnate, with several narrow distinct Wn^&v pinnce on each side, wliicii 

 are 8-4 in. 1., ^-| in. apart at the base. — Blechnum, Metten. Annates, series 4. 

 vol. 15. p. 70. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 48. 



tt Atteniiata group. Fronds ample, ovate ; pinna; numerous, 2 in, or more long. 

 Sp. 3-10. 



3. L. ciliata, Moore; caudex a span high, 1| in. thick; 5^. blackish, slightly 

 scaly below ; /;•. not numerous, 8-12 in. 1., ovato-oblong, simply pinnate ; barren 

 pinnce linear-oblong, the lower ones distant and narrowed below ; the upper 

 ones more approximate, adnato-decurrent, v»-ith a broad rounded auricle at the 

 base on the lower side, bluntish, frequently emarginate or bifid, the margins 

 lobed and spinuloso-ciliated ; texture firm but thin ; vei7is usually once forked ; 

 fertile pinnce narrow, linear, decurrent, sometimes slightly pinnatifid ; rachis 



dark-coloured like the stipe, slightly scaly below. — Moore, Gard. Chron. 1866. 

 p. 290. 



Ilab. New Caledonia; imported by Mr. Veitch. — "Allied to L. gihha in the 

 swollen decurrent bases of the piunre, but differing in its less numerous fronds, and in 

 the much less crowded seiies of pinnse as well as in their very ajjparent fringe of 

 spinulose teeth." 



4. L. gihha, Labill. ; caiid. 2-3 ft. high ; st. short, stroag, erect, densely clothed 

 below with long, linear-subulate black scales ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., 6 in. br., both 

 barren and fertile with very numerous erecto-patent pinnce on each side, those of 

 the former 4-6 in. 1., j-f in. br., cut down nearly to the rachis, dilated and con- 

 nected at the base, the lower ones growing shorter very gradually, the margin 

 nearly entire ; texture coriaceous; veins once forked, fine, subparallel ; /^;"^e7e 

 pinna; 4-G in. 1., ^ in. br., the sori occupying the whole space between the edge 

 and midrtb ; rachis stout, the lower half fibrillose like the stipe. — Hk. Sp. 3. p. 5. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Aneiteum, Isle of Pines. — A large stout plant much resembling 

 L. attenuata in the shape of the pinnae and the gradual way in which they decrease 

 downwards, but differing by its dark bristly scales, which extend considerably up the 

 rachis. A specimen from Erromanga, from R. Brown's herbarium, has the sori uot 

 quite marginal. 



.5. L. discolor, Willd. ; caud. stout, ascending ; st. 3-6 in. 1;, strong, black, 

 glossy, densely clothed at the base with long, dark, linear-subulate scales ; fr. 

 1-3 ft. 1., the barren one 4-6 in. br., narrowed gradually at the base ; pinnce 

 numerous, spreading, contiguous, linear, 2-3 in. 1., § in. br., cut down very 

 nearly to the rachis, narrowed suddenly towards the point, the margin wavy ; 

 texture coriaceous ; veiris prominent, close, subparallel ; fertile pinnce a.?, w\in\evo\is 

 but narrower and shorter ; rachis naked, usually reddish-black in the fertile 

 frond.— ///(■. Sjy. 3. p. 5. 



Hab. Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand ; abundant. — Dr. Mueller 

 sends a curious bipinnatifid form. "Very similar to L. aitemiata, but usually larger, the 

 fronds forming an elegant crown, red-brown below, the pinnules narrower, those of the 

 fertile frond often leafy at the base." — Dr. Hooker. 



