LOMAEIA. 481 



to a distinct wing into falcate acute segm! ; texture coriaceous ; surfaces dark- 

 green, densely shortly pubescent on the ribs ; steiile'^effm. serrulate ; areolce dis- 

 tinct, 2-3-serial between midrib and edge ; sori not reaching tips, — Kuhn, Linn. 

 S6.p.90. 



Hab. Venezuela, Funk and ScUim, 599. — Between aouleata and demne'm. 



79. P. livida, Mett. ; rhinome stout, creeping ; st. and rachises naked, bright 

 light-brown ; fr. deltoid, bipinnate, 2-3 ft. or more each way ; pinnm ligulate- 

 lanceolate, lowest neaSy sessile, not forked, 12-15 in. 1., 4-5 in. br., cut down 

 to the rachis below to a narrow wing, aboye into lanceolate falcate segm.^-^ in. br., 

 barren inciso-crenate ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veins 

 distinct, upper of segm. free, lower uniting in high costal arches ; sori not reaching 

 the tips.— r^>M!. Sc. Nat. ser. 5. vol. 2, p. 222. 



Hab. Andes of New Granada, Triana, Lindig, 179. — Pinnse like upper ones olKiin- 

 zecma, but frond not tripartite. 



XXXIII.— LOMARIA. Page 174—183. 



5. Australian var. nuda (R. Br.) differs from type by less coriaceous texture' 

 castaneous stems, and more numerous narrower acuminate pinnse ; var. nata- 

 lensis, Baker (Natal, MoKen & Buchanan), scales pale-brown, membranous ; 

 fronds subcoriaceous, 2 in. br. ; pinnae patent, blunt ; fertile fr. 4 in. 1., with 

 crowded pinnse. 



6*. L. acuminata, Baker; sterile fr, oblong-lanceolate, l|-2 ft. 1., 4-6 in. br., 

 narrowed gradually from the middle to both ends with a subcastaneons st. 2-3 

 in. I. ; pinna 30-40-jugate, lanceolate-acuminate, subfalcate, ^-f in. br., crenulate, 

 adnate by the whole equally dilated base ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces 

 naked, dark-green ; vdns fine, close, immersed ; fertile pinnce distant, central 3-4 

 in. 1. 



Hab. Norfolk Island, and a fovm from Kermadec Isles with more deeply crenata 

 pinnae. — Intermediate between aitenuata and lanceolata. 



9*. L. awriculata, Baker ; sterile fr. oblanceolate-oblong, 1 ft. 1., S.-SJ in. br. at 

 middle, narrowed gradually to base ; pinnm close, 15-16-jugate, upper and central 

 lanceolate, ascending, bluntish, entire, ^-f in. br., confluent at base in a wing 1^-2 

 lin. br. ; lowest much reduced, free, j-1 in. 1., auricled on botli sides at base ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; colour dull dark-green ; both surfaces and rachis densely 

 clothed with purplish-brown hairs ; veins erecto-patent, fine, close, distinct, 1-2- 

 furcate ; fertile fr. unknown. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 



10*. L. Deplanchei, Baker ; sterile fr. oblanceolate, 12-16 in. 1., 2-2^ in, br. 

 above middle, narrowed very gradually all through lower half, cut down neai-ly 

 or quite to rachis into close blunt entire adnate j»m«(8, central IJ-l^in. 1., \ in. br., 

 lowest 12-16 on each side under \ in. 1., its st. 2-3 in. 1., clothed with squarrose 

 linear-subulate black-brown scales ; texture rigidly coriaceous ; surfaces dark- 

 green, naked ; miris immersed, obscure ; st. of fertile fr. much longer, its pinrm 

 distant, ascending, central 2-2J in. 1. — Blechnum Deplanchei, Lenorm. MSS, 



Hab. New Caledonia, Deplanclie. 



18*. L. OheishregMii, Baker ; rhizome short-creeping ; scdes large, lanceolate, 

 brown, dense, membranous ; barren fr. oblanceolate, 3-6 in. 1., ^-1 in. br. ; 

 pinnce 15-20-jugate, close, ligulate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, obscurely 



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