33. LOMAUIA, § EULOMARIA. 179 



between them; texture herbaceous; veins inconspicuous; racJiis naked. ^///.■, 

 jSp.S.p. 18. 



Hab. New Zealand. — Most like L. alplna, but much more delicate ia texture, with 

 the pinnjE distinctly crenated, 



** Central and lower pimue of the sterile frond narrowed at the base and always 

 distinctly separated from one another. Sp. 21-30. 



21. L. punctidata, Kunze' ; catid. stout, densely paleaceous at the crown ; st. 

 3-6 in, 1., strong, erect ; barren fr. oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 ft. 1., 4-G in. br. ; pinnce 

 very numerous, contiguous, linear, subfalcate, 2-3 in. 1., j-§ in. br., rounded or 

 cordate and auricled at the base, the lower ones defiexed and the lowest reduced 

 down to auricles ; texture coriaceous ; veins inconspicuous ; fertile fr. similar, 

 but the pinnte often not more than ^ in. br. ; invol. often more or less intra- 

 marginal ; rachis stout, erect, straw-coloured, naked. — Hk. S}). 3. p. 31. 



Hab. S. Africa from Natal southward and Java. — This has sometimes the fruit of 

 Lomaria and sometimes of Blechnum, but the most surprising abnormal form is the 

 Scolopendrium Kvehsii of Kunze (Bot. Mag. t. 4768), in which every pinna has a large 

 number of parallel rows of fruit directed from the midrib towards the edge at an acute 

 angle with the former, as is usual in the Aspleniece, and there is a form differing only 

 from Blechnum in the line of fructification being interrupted, and thus agreeing with 

 Boodia. It is the representative of L. attcnuata in the pinnate-fronded series, and may 

 be best known from procera by the lower pinnae being gradually reduced down to 

 auricles. Blechnum Atherstoni of Pappe is the Blechnoid form. 



22. L. procera, Spreng. ; caiid. stout, woody, elongated, clothed with large 

 ovate or lanceolate-acuminate ferruginous scales; st. 6-12 in. 1., stout, erect, 

 scaly below ; barren fr. ovate, 1-3 ft. 1., 6-12 in. br. ; pinnce linear, 3-12 in. 1., 

 ^-1 in. bi-., the lower ones stalked, the base rounded or even cordate, sometimes 

 auricled, the point narrowed gradually, sometimes slightly toothed ; texture 

 coriaceous ; veins fine and parallel, midrib beneath more or less chaffy ; fertile 

 pinnce narrowly linear, distant, 4-6 in. 1., \ in. br. ; rachis stout, erect, more or 

 less scaly ; iiivol. broad, membranaceous, ciliated, sometimes slightly intra- 

 marginal. — Hk. Sp. 3. p. 23. Ic. t. 127, 128. Gard. Ferns, t. 63. L. Gilliesii, 

 H. & G. Ic. t. 207. Osmunda capensis, Linn., oldest name. 



Hab. Mexico and W. Indies southward to Chili ; Malayan and Polynesian Islands, 

 N. Zealand, S. Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and S. Africa. — Often the same frond is 

 partially barren and partially fertile, and there is a form that has the barren pinnse 

 slightly pinnatifid. We include here, from inability to separate them clearly, a large 

 number of plants which have been regarded as distinct, ranging from L. daneacca, 

 Kunze, which has only two or three pinnse on each .side nearly an inch broad, up to 

 L. ornifolia, Presl {L. spectabilis, Liebm., L. Uibercidata, J, Sm., and L. longifoha, 

 Schlecht), which has fronds 3 ft. long with as many as forty pinnse, the lower ones 

 distinctly stalked and often furnished with glands like those of Playioc/yria a.t the base of 

 the petiole. L. chilensis, Kaulf., L. Capensis, Willd., and Blechnum Lechleri, Mett., are 

 similar large-growing forms ; L. vestita, Blume, and L. squamidosa, Desv., have densely 

 paleaceous rachises. Dr. Hooker, in the New Zealand Flora, defines four varieties, 

 which keep their characters under cultivation. 



23. L. caicdata. Baker ; caud. elongated, densely clothed at the apex with 

 lanceolate dark-brown scales ; st. 2-3 in. 1., strong, erect, scaly below ; barren fr. 

 2 ft. 1. or more, 4 in. br., gradually narrowed below and elongated and rooting 

 at_ the apex ; pimiCB numerous, all quite distinct, narrowed suddenly to the 

 midrib, but not stalked at the base, the largest at and a little below the centre of 

 the stem, linear-oblong, 1^-2 in. 1., | in. br., spreading horizontally, narrowed 

 suddenly at the base, slightly auricled on the lower side, narrowed* suddenly at 

 the point ; the lower ones blunt, passing gradually down into mere auricles ; 

 those above the centre of the stem growing graduall}^ smaller and blunter to 

 where it takes root ; texture coriaceous ; colour bright-green ; veins beneatli 



