NEW FERNS FROM LORD HOWE’S ISLAND. 17 
AsrLextu: (Darga) preriporprs, Baker: stipitibus nudis com- 
pressis viridibus, frondibus oblongo-deltoideis tripinnatifidis glabris 
i itudi iocribus viridi is in 
8, 
ligulatis obtusis integris ascendentibus instructis, venulis erecto- 
+ 441 * & 4 is 2S 3s. Me pOES La * 
P 5 distor dpa cence Pais 
elongatis (36 lin. longis) submarginalibus, semper extrorsum apertis. 
With the preceding. 
Caudex not seen. Stipe naked, green, short, compressed. Frond 
oblongo-deltoid, under a foot long by half a foot broad, tripinnatifid, 
green, glabrous, naked, rather fleshy in texture. Main rachis green, 
flattened, naked, winged in the upper half of the frond. Lower 
stinct, the erecto-patent venules of the p g up one into 
the centre of each lobe to its apex. Sori linear, placed only on the 
outermost venules of the pinnules and rea to ge 
glabrous. 
A very distinct plant, looking at the first glance more like a Pteris 
than an Asplenium. colour, texture, and cutting it most resembles 
some of the forms of Asplenium bulbiferum, from which it differs 
totally in its long, always submarginal sori. The truncate ligulate 
lobes are contiguous and open out face to face in a way that shows an 
The same collection contains what I believe to be a new Lastrea 
near recedens and velutinum, but the specimen is scarcely full enough — 
to characterise it clearly in a group where the forms approach 
closely to one another. 
