Puate 52. 
LOMARIA Macetiantca, Desv. 
Magellanic Lomaria. 
Lomaria Magellanica, Desv.; caudex one to two feet high, erect, stout, subar- 
boreous, clothed at the summit and at the base of the stipites with a dense 
mass of slender, coriaceo-membranaceous, subulate, firm, glossy, falcate 
scales, one and a half inch long; stipites rather short, stout, four to six 
inches long, having two rows of distant tubercular scales (abortive pinn?); 
sterile fronds one and a half to two feet or more long, oval-oblong, acumi- 
nate, very coriaceous, rigid, pinnated with close-placed pinnee, four to six 
inches long, half an inch wide, linear-oblong, acuminate, sessile, terminal 
ones only subconfluent at the base, frequently at the inferior base bearing 
a very distinct, oblong auricle; fertile frond oblong, obtuse; pinnz close- 
placed, linear, lower ones often auricled at the inferior base; involucre 
dark-brown, at first revolute, and concealing the capsules. 
Lomanria Magellanica.: Desv. in Mag. Nat. Berl. 1811, p. 330, in Mém. Soc. 
Linn. Par. v. 6. p. 289. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 2. p. 393. Braok. Fil. 
U.S. Eupl. Exp. p. 126. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 3. p. 27. 
Lomarta setigera. Gaud. in dunn. Sc. Nat. 0.5. p. 98. 
Lomaria robusta. Carm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. v. 12. p. 512. 
ae ae Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 292. Pappe and Raws, En. Fil. Cap. 
p. 27. 
Onoc Lea Boryana. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 111. 
LomaRia cinnamomea. Kawif. En. Fil. p. 153. 
Lomaria Ryani. Kaulf. En. Fil. p.155. Kee. Anal. Pterid, t. 12. 
Preris osmundioides. Bory, Voy. p. 194. ¢. 3. 
Has. Straits of Magellan, and Tierra del Fuego, and Falkland Islands, very 
abundant, Commerson, Freycinet, Pernetty, Darwin, J.D. Hooker (Hermite 
Tsland); extending on the Pacific side of South America to Chili and Juan 
Fernandez. ‘Tristan d’Acunha, Carmichael. Brazil, Gardner and others 
(“a tree Fern, four feet high”), British Guiana, New Granada, various 
collectors ; Peru, Mathews; West Indies. South Africa, Mauritius and 
Bourbon, Madagascar, Bojer and others.—Cultivated at Kew, from roots 
imported by Mr. Standish from South Chil. 
This is as yet a rare species in British Ferneries, and, though 
usually kept in a cool greenhouse, will probably succeed well in 
the open air, since it is a native of the extreme south of South 
America, yet growing as far north as the West Indian islands. 
JANUARY lst, 1862. 
