150 LOMARIA BORYANA. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1843, having 

 been brought from the Falkland Islands, by Dr. Joseph Dalton 

 Hooker. 



The sterile fronds ovate-lanceolate in form, and pinnate; the 

 pinnae being linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, and acute; inferior 

 sub-petiolate, superior adnate, base decumbent, and the margin 

 entire; pinnae approximate, opposite near the base of the frond, 

 sub-opposite in the centre of the frond, and alternate near the 

 apex. Terminal pinna larger than those near the apex of the 

 frond. Fertile fronds pinnate, the pinnae being linear and acute. 



Fronds terminal, and adherent to an erect rhizoma. 



Stipes and rachis scaly, especially near the base; the scales 

 reddish brown in colour. 



Veins forked. 



Sori linear and continuous. 



Mr. Moore remarks that on the Organ Mountains this 

 species produces a thick caudex, four feet high, which, with 

 the fronds at the top, have much resemblance to some species 

 of ZamicB. 



Length of frond twenty-four inches; colour deep green. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Yeitch, of the Exotic Nursery, 

 Chelsea, and to Messrs. E. G. Henderson, of the Wellington 

 Nursery, for plants of this species; and to M. Schott, of the 

 Imperial Gardens of Schonbriinn, for fronds. 



It is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Sim, of Foot's Cray; 

 Rollisson, of Tooting; Veitch, of Chelsea; E. G. Henderson, 

 of St. John's Wood; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; and 

 Young, of Taunton. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



