Pinna of fertile Frond— under side. 



LOMARIA AUSTEALIS. 



Link. J. Smith. Kunze. Presl. 



PLATES LVIl. AND LVIII. VOL. IV. 



Blechnum australe, 

 t( it 



" rigidum, 



" auriculatum, 



" trilobum, 



Lomaria pumila, 



" minor. 



LlNN^US. SCHKUHE. ThUNBEEG. 



SCHLECHTENDAL. 



WiLLDENOW. 



"WlLLDENOW. 



Peesl. 



Kaulfuss. Kunze. Fee. 



ScHKUHE. 



Link. 



Lomaria — From Loma — an edge, in reference to the position of the spore 

 cases on the fronds. Australia — Southern. 



One of the most beautiful of the family of Lomaria, and 

 rare in cultivation in this country. 



An evergreen greenhouse species. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1839. 



The fronds are pinnate, and very symmetrical in form. The 

 sterile pinnae oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, sessile, and superior 

 adnate. Terminal pinna elongate; fertile pinnae approximate, 

 longer, very narrow, linear-oblong, and with the base auriculate. 



Fronds glabrous, caudex coespitose, rachis squamulose. 



Sori linear and continuous. 

 VOL. IV. X 



