48. LOMARIA. 381 



c.M. long, '/a — Va c.M. broad, rounded or cordate and auricled at the base, 

 the lower ones deflexed and the lowest reduced to auricles. Texture coria- 

 ceous ; veins inconspicuous ; rachis stout, erect, naked, stramineous. Fertile 

 fronds similar, but the pinnae narrowed, often not more than 2 '/j m.M. broad. 

 Indusium not rarely + intramarginal. 

 Java; South. Africa. 



* (6) Ij. capel^jsis, ITillcl., Spec, V, 291; L.procera, Spr., Hk. Bk., 

 Syn. Fil., 179, p. p.; Hk., Icon.. PI., II, tab. CXXVII— CXXVIII ; Gard. Ferns, 

 tab. LIII; Bkchnum capense, Schl., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 178; C. Cbr., Ind. 

 Fil. ; Osmunda capmsis, L., (oldest name). 



Rhizome stout, erect, woody, clothed with large, ovale or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, ferrugineous scales. Stipes 15 — 30 c.M. long, stout, erect, scaly 

 below. Barren fronds 30 — 120 c.M. long, 15—60 c.M. broad. Pinnae num- 

 erous, linear, 7'/j — 30 c.M. long, 1^-2 '/j c.M. broad, narrowed gradually 

 from the baso to the apex, the base unequally cordate, sometimes auricled, 

 the margm Toi'ratc y ihe apex acuminate, lower pinnae sessile or slightly 

 stalked, higher adnate to the rachis, the terminal one free, often very 

 long. Texture coriaceous; rachis slout, slightly scaly, the scales not large; costae 

 ± chaffy beneath ; veins fine and parallel. Fertile fronds with the pinnae narrow- 

 ly linear, distant, 10—15 c.M. long, to \ — ^/g c.M, broad. Indusium broad, 

 membranaceous, occasionally ciliate, sometimes intramarginal. 



Malaya; Polynesia, Trap. America, South. Africa. 



* (7) li, veslita, Bh, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 161; L. procera, Spr., 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 179, p. p.; Bkchnum vestilum, Kuhn, Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., 

 IV, 284; C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome erect, forming a short, thick caudex, densely clothed with broad, 

 brown, acuminate scales. Stipes ± 25 c.M. long, thick, densely clothed 

 throughovit with large, acuminate, brown or pale-brown scales. Fronds di- 

 morphous. Barren fronds pinnate, 50 — 200 c.M. long. Pinnae numerous, 

 linear, 12 — 24 c.M. long, 1—1 Vj c.M. broad at the base, acuminate, the edge 

 seriate, the base truncate or rounded. Texture coriaceous; rachis scaly like 

 the stipe; costae + chafify beneath; veins numerous, fine, parallel. Fertile 

 fronds with the pinnae of the same, length, erecto-patent, 4—5 m.M. broad. 



Malaya. 



(8) 1j. Fraseri^A Cunn.,Ek. Bk., Syn. Fil., 182; Icon. "Pl., II, tab. 



