33. LOMARIA, § EULOMARIA. 177 



before they reach the margin ; rachU pubescent and the lower surface slightly. 

 BO, colour deep-green ; fertile Jr. with numerous distant, spreading, narrow, 

 linear pinnse. — Blechnum, Metten. Annales,-^ ser. part 16. p. 69. 



Hab. Gratbered by Milne in Aneitenm, and Vieillard in New Caledonia. — This is a very 

 curious plant which Sir W. Hooker thought might be an abnormal form of Z. attenuata, 

 under which it is mentioned in Sp. Fil. It is only the New Caledonian examples 

 which show the anastomosing venation, but Milne's plant is evidently the same. The 

 apex of the frond is not cut down within a considerable distance of the rachie. Metteuiua 

 compares it in habit to L. nigra. It is i. emarginata of Uarruthera. 



•Ht Spicata group. Fronds smaller, lanceolate, pinnm not more than 1-li in. I. 

 Sp. 11-20. 



11. L. lanceolata, Spreng. ; caud. elongated and densely clothed with dark- 

 brownlinear^scstes^ s<. 4-6 in. 1., firm, erect, dark-brown, paleaceous ; fr. 6-12 

 in. 1., 2-4 in. br., the barren ones lanceolate, narrowed very gradually below ; 

 pinnce close, slightly falcate, 1-1^ in. 1., J-f in. br., gradually narrowed to a 

 point or bluntish, slightly toothed, both surfaces naked; textwre coriaceous, 

 colour bright-green, the veins strong and prominent ; fertile pinnce linear, 

 spreading or falcate, about i in. apart at the base ; rachis pale, naked. — Hi. Ic. 

 t.429. Sp.S.p.li. 



Hab. Australia, Van Piemen's Land, New Zealand, and Polynesian Islands. 



12. L. hlechnoides, Bory ; cavd. creeping ; barren /r. short-stalked, lanceolate, 

 about 6 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br. ; upper pinnce j in. 1., f in. br., dilated at the base, 

 rather falcate, the point blunt, the lower ones narrowed gradually into mere 

 auricles ; texture coriaceous, veins not conspicuous ; fertile yr. 12-18 in. 1., 3 in. 

 br. ; St. 6 in. 1., strong, erect, dark chesnut-brown ; pinnce 1^2 in. 1., J in. br., 

 dilated suddenly at the base, the upper ones J-f in. apart, and the bases nearly 

 or quite decurrent from one to another. — Hk. Sp. 3. p. 12. 



Hab. Chili. — Probably this should be joined with L. lanceolata, from which it only 

 differs by its larger fertile frond, with pinnse widened suddenly at the base on both 

 Bides. 



13. L. dura, Moore; cavd. erect, subarborescent ; St. 1 in. 1., thick, erect, 

 with ovate-lanceolate scales at the base ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., lanceolate, cut 

 down to the rachis below ; barren pinruB, the lower ones dwarfed into rounded 

 lobes, the middle ones oblong subfalcate, the upper ones narower and more 

 acuminated ;/Br<jfe^rare(B shorter, crowded, broadish, very blunt, decurrent at 

 the base above ; textwre coriaceous, veins forked ; invol. transversely wrinkled, 

 the margin fimbriated. — Moore, Oa/rd. Chron. 1866, p. 290. L. riglda, J. Sm. 

 Ferns B^it. S^For. p. 290, 



Hab. Chatham Islands. — "Allied to L. lanceolata and blechnoides, but differing by its 

 thick leathery texture when fresh, and in the entire somewhat cartilaginous margin. 

 Fertile fronds remarkable for their stout densely-fruited very blunt crowded pinnae and 

 fringed inditsia." — Moore, I, c. 



14. L. aspera, Kllotzsch ; cattd. stout, ultimately elongated, clothed with 

 linear chesnut-brown scales ; st. scarcely any ; barren fr. 6 in. 1., 2 in. br., 

 ovate-lanceolate, narrowed very gradually below ; pinnce close, the largest f in. 1., 

 S in. br., slightly dilated at the base and auricled on the upper side, the point 

 bluntish ; texture coriaceous ; veins inconspicuous ; fertile jr. much smaller 

 (3 in. 1., I in. br.), on a longer stem-; pinnce crowded, J in. 1., J in. br., blunt, 

 the invol. broad, and involute.— S*. Sp. 3. p. 14. t. 144. 



Hab, Chili and Cbiloe. — The fronds take root at the extremity and produce new 

 plants. The habit of the barren frond is just that of L. lanceolata, but the fertile one is 

 very different, 



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