Prare 381. 
LOXSOMA Counninenamt, Br. ISS. 
Mr. Cunningham's Loxsoma. 
Gen. Cuan. Loxsoma, Br. Sori marginal, in the sinus of the teeth of the 
fronds, pointing downwards, terminating a vein. Involucres suburceolate, 
coriaceous, of the texture of the frond, the mouth truncated, entire. Re- 
ceptacte columnar, elongated, much exserted beyond the involucre, and 
covered, for its whole length, with clavate, shortly stipitate capsules, 
mixed with jointed hairs and furnished with a broad, oblique, incom- 
plete ring, opening on one (the out-)side vertically. Spores triangular, 
with a depressed, triangular mark.—An elegant Fern, peculiar to New 
Zealand. Caudex long, creeping, scaly. Stipites elongated, scattered. 
Fronds coriaceous, decompound, glaucous beneath, the segments lanceolate, 
dentato-pinnatifid, veins simple or forked ; sori on the eatremity of a vein. 
Loxsoma Cunninghami. 
Loxsoma Cunninghami. Br. MSS. 4. Cunningham, in Bot. of N. Zeal. in Hook. 
Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 2. p. 366. ¢. 31, 382. Hook, Gen. Fil. t. 15. Sp. 
Fil. v. 1. p. 86. Hook. Fl. N. Zeal. v. 2. p. 18. 
Davauttra dealbata. 4. Cunn. MSS. 
TRICHOMANES ccenopteroides. Harv. MSS. 
Has. New Zealand; Northern Island, in several localities, 4//. Cunningham, 
Colenso, Sinclair, J. D. Hooker, Harvey, etc. Cultivated at Kew; living 
specimens having been received from Dr. Sinclair. 
This very remarkable and rare genus (only hitherto detected 
in the Northern Island of New Zealand), was first discovered 
and described by Mr. Allan Cunningham. It may be looked on 
as a Fern with the habit of a Davailia and the fructification of 
Trichomanes. We are satisfied to place it in Dicksoneee, along 
with Davallia, Hymenophyllum, ete. Pres] seems to have taken 
no notice of it. Dr. Van den Bosch, who is deeply versed in 
Hymenophyllacee, in his most recent work ‘ Herste Bijdrage tot 
de Kennis der Hymenophyllacee,’ constitutes an Order “ Bry- 
opterides,” which has three suborders,—(1) Hymenophyllacee, (2) 
Diplophyllacee, (3) Loxsomacee ; the latter formed of the single 
genus Lovsoma. We have lately had the good fortune to re- 
auGust lst, 1861. 
