TAB. LXVTI. 



Nephbodium (Lastbea) Fijiense, Hook. 



Fronde ampla bipedali et ultra submembranacea firma sicci- 

 tate fusco-viridi late ovato-acumlnata bipinnata, pinnis 

 primariis remotis ovatia acuminatis petiolatis (supremia 

 exceptis), secundariia aeu pinnulis oblongo-linearibus acutis 

 sessilibus profunde fere ad coatam pmnatifidis, aegmentia 

 oblongo-ovatis ciliatia obtuaia inferioribus pinnatifido-lobatia 

 reliquis subintegria, aoris biaerialibus in dorao venularum, 

 inTolucria orbiculari-cordatia pilia clavatia ciliatia, atipite 

 rachibusque ferrugineo-paleaceo-birautia. 



Has. Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands, Milne, a. 159, on mountains, 

 not common. 



I am not aware of any deacribed speciea of the Lastrea- 

 group to which thia can be referred. There is nothing to 

 correspond with it among the Lastreas in Brackenridge's 

 Ferna of the Fijian group. 



Tab. LXVII. Fig. 1. Primary pinna with a portion of 

 the main rachia, and f. 2. Apex of a frond of Nephrodium 

 Fijiense; — natural size. f. 3. Fertile segment of a frond, 

 with sori; /. 4. Single sorua. f. 5. Portion of an involucre ; 

 all more or less magnified. 



Cent. 2. 1. 67. 



