33. LOMAKIA, § HXXOJIABIA- 179 



between them; texture herbaceous; vans inconspicnons ; racMs naked. — Hk. 

 Sp. 3. p. 18. 



Hab. Xew Zealand. — ^Most like L. alpina, but mnch more delicate in texture, with 

 tbe pinns distinctly crenated. 



** Central and lower pinn<B of the sterile frond narrowed at the base and always 

 distinaly separated from one another. Sp. 21-30. 



21. L. punctulata, Kunze ; caud. stout, densely paleaceous at tlie crown ; st. 

 3-6 in. 1., strong, erect ; barren fr. oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 ft. 1., 4-6 m. br. ; pinnee 

 very numerous, contiguous, linear, subfalcate, 2-3 in. 1., j-f in. br., rounded or 

 cordate and auricled at the base, the lower ones deflexed and the lowest reduced 

 down to auricles ; texture coriaceous ; nans inconspicuous ; firtUe fr. similar, 

 but the pinnae often not more than g in. br. ; invoil. often more or less intra- 

 marginal ; rachis stoul^ erect, straw-coloured, naked. — HI. Sp. 3. p. 31. 



Hab. S. A&ica from Xatal southward and Java. — ^This has sometimes the fmit of 

 Xriymaria and sometimes o£ BleehnuTn, but the most surprising abnormal form is the 

 Stolopendrmm Krd>sii of Kunze (Bot. Mag. t. 4768), in which every pinna has a large 

 number of parallel rows of fruit directed from tbe midrib towards the edge at an acute 

 angle with the former, as is usual in the AapleiuetE, and there is a form difiering only 

 from Bleehmiim. in the line of fructification being interrupted, and thus agreeing with 

 Doodia. It is the representative of L. aitenuata in the pinnate-fronded series, and may 

 be best known from procera by the lower pious being gradually reduced down to 

 auricles. Blechnwn Alherstoni of Fappe is the Blecbnoid form. 



22. L. proeera. Sprang. ; caud. stout, woody, elongated, clothed with large 

 ovate or lanceolate-acuminate ferruginous scales ; St. 6-12 in. 1., stout, erect, 

 scaly below ; barren fr. ovate, 1-3 ft. 1., 6-12 in. br. ; pinnw linear, 3-12 in. 1^ 

 ^1 in. br., the lower ones stalked, the base rounded or even cordate, sometimes 

 auricled, the point narrowed graduaUy, sometimes slightly toothed ; texture 

 coriaceous ; veins fine and parallel, midrib beneath more or less chaffy ; fertile 

 pinncB narrowly linear, distant, 4-6 in. 1., J in. br. ; rachis stout, erect, more or 

 less scaly ; invol. broad, membranaceons, ciliated, sometimes slightly intra- 

 maiginal.— fl*. -Sip. 3. p. 23. Ic. t. 127, 128. Gard. Ferns, t. 53. L. Gilliesu, 

 H. £ G. Ic. t. 207. Osmnnda capensis, Linn., oldest name. 



Hab. Mexico and W. Indies southward to Chili ; Malayan and Polynesian Islands, 

 N. Zealand, S. Australia, "Van Biemen's Land, and S. Africa. — Oft«n the same frond is 

 partially barren and partially fertile, and there is a form that has the barren pinnae 

 slightly pinnatifid. We include here, firom inability to separate them clearly, a large 

 number of plants which have been regarded as distinct, ranging from 'L. daneacea, 

 KuDze, which has only two or three pinnae on each side nearly an inch broad, up to 

 L. oraifoUa, Presl (i. speebUnlis, Liebm., L. tubereulata, J. Sm., and L. longifoba, 

 Schlecht), which has fronds 3 ft. long with as many as forty pinnae, the lower ones 

 distinctly stalked and often furnished mth glands like those of Plagiogryria at the base of 

 the petiole. L. chMemis, Kaulf., L. Capensis, WUld., and Blechimm Lechleri, Mett, are 

 auular laige-growing forms ; L. vestita, Blnme, and L. squamulosa, Desv., have densely 

 paleaceous rachises. Dr. Hooker, in the JSTew Zealand Flora, defines four varieties, 

 which keep their characters under cultivation. 



23. L. caudtOa, Baker ; caud. elongated, densdy clothed at the apex with 

 lanceolate dark-brown scales ; St. 2-3 in. 1., strong, erect, scaly below ; barren fr. 

 2 ft. 1. or more, 4 in. br., gradually narrowed below and elongated and rooting 

 at the apex ; pinnw numerous, all quite distinct, narrowed sudden] v to the 

 midrib, hut not stalked at the base, the larg^t at and a little below the centre of 

 the stem, linear-oblong, l|-2 in. L, a in. br., spreading horizontally, narrowed 

 suddenly at the base, slightly auricled on the lower side, narrowecl suddenly at 

 the point ; the lower ones blunt, passing gradually down into mere auricles ; 

 those above the centre of the stem growing gradually smaller and blunter to 

 where it takes root; texture coriaceous; cofoar bright-green; ceins beneath 



