LINDSAY A. 471 



Hab. Dusky Bay, New Zealand, Forsler. — Very near D, scoparia, but sori smaller and 

 bordered. 



73'''. D. Mannii, Eaton ; st. tufted, \-\ ft., castaneous, matted with ad pressed 

 fibrillose scales like the straight primary racliis ; fr. lanceolate, 1 ft. or more 1., 

 2-2^ in. br,, narrowed from middle on both ends, tripinnatifid ; pinim close, 

 oblong- lanceolate, subscssile, with narrowly winged rachis ; pinnl. ascendintr, 

 upper simple or forked, lower rhomboid, pinnatifid, with distant, ligiilate, 

 1-veined scgm. l-ls^-lin. 1. ; texture siibcoriaceous; 5;<?;/accs naked ; sorus usually 

 terminal, free, twice as broad as the tip of the segm. 



Hab. Sandwich Isles, Mann d: Brigham, 54G. 



74*. D. Lownnandi, Baker ; rhizome firm, wide-creeping, \ in. thick ; scales 

 minute, brown, fibrillose ; st. \-\ ft. 1., naked, castaneous; fr. deltoid, 4-5 in. L, 

 4-5-pinnatifid ; pitince close, deltoid, the lowest much largest, produced on lower 

 side, the others cuneate-truncate on lower side at base ; innnl. and lowest 

 tertiary scgm. rhomboid, unequal-sided , final lohcs ligulate, 1-veined, ^ lin. 

 br., ^-1 lin. 1., cuncate when two join ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces green, 

 naked ; sori minute, terminal, free or narrowly edged on both sides. 



Hab, New Caledonia, Vieillard, Deplanche. 



XX.— LINDSAYA. Page 104-112. 



13*. L. parmda. Fee; s^. 6-8in. 1., naked, stramineous; fr. about as long, 

 hipinnate when fully developed, with a few distant spreading pinnce 2-3 in. 1., 

 f in. br. ; piniil. close, subrhomboidal, under ^ in. br., with upper edge slightly 

 curved ; texture membranous ; sorus continuous, the outer valve protruded 

 beyond the inner. — Fil. Ant. p. 17. t. 7. 



TIab. Trinidad, Germain, Prestoe. — Near tenuis, but habit erect and rachis stiff. 



IG*. L. nervosa, Mett. ; st. 6-15 in., tufted, naked, reddish-stramineous; 

 fr. 6-9 in. 1., deltoid, 2-3-pinnate ; pi7ince 3-6-jugate, stalked, ascending with a 

 long caudate inciso-pinnatifid point ; lateral segm. short-stalked, subquad- 

 rangular, f-i- in. I., lower edge straight or decurved, entire, upper and outer deeply 

 bluntly-lobed ; lowest segm. equal-sided, imbricated over rachis ; texture mem- 

 branous ; surfaces bright green ; veins slender, immersed, dichotomous , sori 

 continous. — Fil. Nov. Cal. j). 62. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard 1540, Eichards. 



37. L. venustct, Kaulf., Kuhn, Linn. .36. p. 79 ; L. Thwai'tesii, Mett. Kuhn, 

 Fil.Afr. . 18; from Ceylon, differs by its wide-creeping wiry rhizome, like 

 tbat of Davallia pulchella ; L. Seemanni, Carruth. Fl. Vit. p. .".j8, by its smnller 

 ascending less deepy-lobed pinnules ; Schizoloma malaharica, Beddome, F. B. I., 

 t.2G8, by its creeping rhizome,.simply pinnate fronds, deeply-lobed segments, 

 and nearly or quite free veinlets. 



41*. L. VieiUardii, Mett. ; rhizome wiry, wide-creening ; st. castaneous, naked, 

 •1-1 ft. I. ; //•. simply pinnate, deltoid, \-h ft. 1. ; pinnce distinctly stalked, ascend- 

 ing, linear-ligulate, 1-3 in. 1., i-| in. br., barren, sharply inciso-pinnatitid, rather 

 broader, fertileentire ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; 

 veins fine, distinct, distant, anastomosing mainly in long costal areolaj ; sorus 

 continuous; inner valve of inv. very narrow. — FU. Nov. Cal. p. 05. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 1566, PanrJicr. 



