33. LOMARIA, § E'JLOMARIA. 181 



28. L. nigra, Col. ; caud. stout, clothed at the crown with linear scales ; st, 

 slender, erect, densely scaly, 2-o in. 1. ; barren fr. 4-G in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., linear- 

 jblong, with a larf,'e bluntish sinuated point, cut down below to the rachis into 

 numerous roundish-oblong sinuated pinnce on each side, which are -i-f in. 1., 

 ^-■y- in br., the lower ones quite distinct and a short distance from one another ; 

 texture lierbaceous ; colour dark-green ; veins fine ; fertile fr. with longer stalks, 

 the terminal pinna long, linear, the lateral ones linear, erecto-patent. — Hi; ibp. 3. 

 t. 35. Jc. t. 900. 



Hab. New Zealand. A very distinct species of herbaceous texture, with the lower 

 pinnae quite distinct, but a large terminal portion of the frond lobed only. 



29. L. fiimatilis, Spreng. ; caud. 3-4 in. 1., stout, clothed towards the crown 

 with linear bright-brown scales ; st. 3-4 in. 1., erect, densely scaly ; barren fr. 

 linear, 6-18 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; pimicB oblong, obtuse, spreading, not decurrent, 

 •|-| in. 1., |-§ in. br., the upper ones nearly contiguous, the lower ones shorter 

 and more distant ; texture herbaceous ; veins conspicuous ; fertile jnnnce linear 

 obtuse, -l-f in. 1., \ in. br., erecto-patent, the lower ones with more than their 

 own length between their bases ; rachis paleaceous throughout. — Hk. Sp. 2.. p. 34. 



Hab. New Zealand, Van Diemen's Land, South Australia. — Easily recognizable from 

 all the others by the shape of its pinnae. 



30. L. membranacea, Col. ; caud. short, the scales linear, dark-brown ; st. very 

 short ; barren fr. linear-oblong, 6-9 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br. ; pinnce spreading or 

 erecto-patent, linear-oblong, obtuse, crenated, the largest f in. 1., j in. br., the 

 lower ones quite distinct at the base, but contiguous, the lowest gradually 

 reduced to mere auricles ; texture coriaceous ; veins often conspicuous ; fertile fr. 

 on a St. several in. 1. ; pinnce subdistant, linear, erecto-patent ; )-acMs naked.— 

 Ilk. Sp. 3. p. 34. ;;. 145. 



Hab. New Zealand. — Intermediate in habit between the last and L. lanccolata. 

 *** Sterile fronds hipinnatifid or bipinnate. Sp. 31-34. 



31. L. diversifolia. Baker; catid. stout, oblique, densely clothed with linear- 

 subulate dark-brown scales ; sterile fr. ovate, 6-8 in. 1., 3-4 in. br., its stem 

 stout, erect, 4-6 in. 1., dark chesnut-brown, paleaceous below ; pinnce linear, 

 spreading horizontally, the largest 1^ in. 1., |- in. br., cut down throughout 

 halfway to the rachis into ovate-mucronate lobes, not at all adnate at the base ; 

 texture coriaceous, both surfaces naked ; veins strong and prominent, the lateral 

 ones in each of the lobes of the pinnse usually once branched ; fertile fr. on a st. 

 1 ft. 1. ; pinnce distant, narrowly linear, 3-4 in. 1. ; rachis naked and dark 

 chesnut-brown like the stipe. — Blechnum, Metten. Annales, 4 ser. vol. 15. p. 71. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 1532. — By their hipinnatifid barren fronds, this and 

 the next connect L. Fraseri with the rest of the genus, but the fertile frond is just that 

 of a typical Lomaria. 



32. L. Lenormandi, Baker ; st. 4-6 in. 1., strong, erect, densely clothed with 

 long brown fibrillge ; sterile fr. oblong-lanceolate, 12-18 in. 1., 6-8 in. br., witli 

 numerous quite distinct linear pinnce on each side, which are 3-4 in. 1., rather 

 more than ^ in. br., cut down very nearly to the rachis throughout into finel}'- 

 toothed linear falcate pi7i7il., the lower ones growing shorter very gradually; 

 texture herbaceous ; rachis fibrillose throughout ; veinlcts of the pinnules incon- 

 spicuous ; fcrt. p>inna3 very numerous, narrowly linear, quite entire, 2-3 in. 1., 

 J in. apart. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard. — This is sent as B. contiguum, Mett., but this latter 

 from the description is a simply pinnate plant near L. proccra. Here the barren frond 

 resembles that of L. Fraseri in cutting, but the rachis is fibrillose, not winged, whilst 

 the fertile frond is not materially ditferent from a large number of the foregoing. 



