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LOMARIA procera, Spr. 
’ Tali Lomaria. 
LomaRia procera; caudex erect or ascending, stout, woody, elongated, clothed 
at the extremity (as is the base of the stipes) with large, ovato-lanceolate, 
ferruginous, opaque, chaffy scales; fronds tufted, ample, from a span to 
four feet high, including the stipites, oblong-ovate, coriaceous, piunated ; 
pinnee numerous on the larger specimens, generally horizontally patent ; 
sterile ones (often partially fertile) oblong or oblong-lanceolate, three inches 
to a span long, sometimes an inch wide, sharply acuminate, sessile, un- 
equally cordate at the base, subfalcate, the margins finely serrated, terminal 
pinne free, often very long; veins close, compact, simple or forked near the 
base ; fertile pinne linear, more or less broad, two to six inches long, dis- 
tant, erecto-patent, cordate at the base, the apex suddenly contracted, sori 
with very crowded capsules ; involucres dark brown, marginal or originating 
at some distance from the margin, involute and fornicate, at length break- 
ing up into segments and spreading. 
Lomarta procera. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 4. p. 65. A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in 
Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 2. p. 263 (excl. syn. Richard.). Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 127, 
128. Sp. Fil. v. 3. p. 23. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct.v. 1. p.110. Fl. N. 
Zeal. v. 2. p. 27. t. 15.—Var. minor. Brack. Fil. U. S. Eupl. Eup. p. 127. 
Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Crypt. t.2 H? (figure only, no descrip- 
tion ; scales at the base of the stipites narrower and longer). 
Lomarta latifolia. Colenso, in Tasm. Journ. Nat. Se. v. 2. p. 176. 
Lomarta Capensis. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 291. Rawson and Pappe, En. Fil. 
Cap. p. 27. 
Buiecunum Capense. Schlecht. Adumbr. Fil. p. 34. t. 18. 
Onociea Capensis. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 111. 
Osmunpa Capensis. Linn. Mant. 
SreGanta procera and 8. minor. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 158. 
Lomarta Chilensis. Kis. En. Fil. p. 154. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 64 B (sterile and 
fertile pinne and analysis). C. Gay, Fil. Chil. p. 23. | 
Lomaria spectabilis? Liebm. Fil. Mex. p. 83. Rich. Fl. N. Zeal. t. 247 (fer- 
tile frond only.) 
Lomagta lineata. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. py. 290 (venation more distinct). 
Osmunpa lineata. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 111. 
Biecunvum procerum. Ladbill. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 87. t. 247. 
Lomania striata. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 291. 
OnocEa procera. Spreng. in Schrad. Journ. v. 3. p. 267. 
Osmunpa procera. Forst. Prodr. n. 414. 
AspLENIUM procerum. Bernh. Act. Enf. 1802, p. 4. f. 1. 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1862. 
