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b. Barren fronds small, iO — i5 c.M. long. 



%. Stipes lufted. Pinnae crenate, auricled at the base on both sides. 



(5) L. egenolfioides. 

 i(i.if. Stipes scattered. Pinnae (inehj serrate, not auricled at the base. 



(4) L. areolaris. 

 h.h. Barren fronds larger, 30 — 200 c.M. long. 

 c. Stipes naked, or scaly at the base. 



d. Pinnae 5—7\ c.M. long, 5 — 7'/2 ^n.M. broad. 



(5) L. puuctulata. 



d.d. Pinnae 7 \— 30 c.M. long, dO—^25 m.3I. broad. (6) L. capensis. 



c.c. Stipes densely scaly. (7) L. vestita. 



a.a.a>a. Barren fronds %pinnatifid. (8) L. Fraseri. 



* (1) I^. Pateriioni, Spr., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 174; Hk., Fil. Exot, 

 tab. IL; L. elongata, BL, var. Cumingiana, Hk., Spec. Fil., Ill, tab. GXLIII; 

 Blechnum Patersoni, Melt., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 176, p. p.; C. Chr , Iiid. 

 Fil.; Stegania Patersoni, B. Br., (oldest name); — var. elongata; L. elongata, 

 BL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 160.; B. Patersoni, Met I., var. majus, Copel., Philipp. 

 Journ., I, Suppl., 152. 



Rhizome short-creeping or erect, clothed with ovate-lanceolate, brown 

 scales. Stipes o — 8 c.M. long, erect, rather scaly below. Barren fronds simple , 

 ± 30 c.M. long, under 2^2 c.M. broad, broadest + ^s-of the distance from the 

 top, narrowed gradually downwards, the point acuminate, the margin carti- 

 lagineous, wavy. Texture coriaceou'^: veins inconspicuous. Fertile fronds 

 linear, ± 5 m.M. broad, simple, or branched with 1 or more segments on 1 

 or both sides. Sori occupying the whole space between the midrib and the edge. 



War. elongata : Sterile and fertile fronds deeply pinnatifid, 60 c.M. 

 or more long, the barren ones cut down into ± 6 — 10 segments on each side, 

 which are + IS — 25 c.M. long, + 2^2 c.M. broad, suddenly dilated and 

 decurrent, and free or confluent at the base; fertile pinnae often numerous, 

 erecto-patent, as long as the barren ones, but narrowly linear, mostly connected 

 at the base by a very narrow wing. 



Malaya ; South. India, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania. 



* (2) li. vulcaiiica, JBL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 161; Hk., Icon. PL, X, 

 tab. CMLXIX; Blechnum vulcanicum, Kuhn, Farnkr. d. Erde, 179; C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome short, erect, clothed with long, linear-lanceolate or subulate 



