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Hab. Tutuila, Samoan Islands. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



Rootstock scandent on trees, and imbricated with pale, rigid, linear- 

 lanceolate, attenuate, fimbriated scales ; the surface on removal of the 

 scales is rough to the touch. Fronds long, pinnate. Pinnae sessile, 

 elongated-lanceolate, acuminate, with a rounded cuneate base, the 

 margin repand-dentate, of a darker green on the upper than on the 

 under surface. Veins on the under side prominent, either simple or 

 forked near the costa, and parallel. 



The Samoan and Brazilian plants are similar in every respect. 

 In our specimens of both the fertile fronds are in too young a state 

 for satisfactory examination. 



3. STENOCHLiENA VARIABILIS. 



S. rhizomate stipitibusque paleaceis ; frondibm pinnatis ; pinnis alternis 

 brevi-stipitatis, sterilibus glabris supra nitidis lanceolatis acuminatis 

 basi attenuatis, fertilibus linearibm ; venis prominentibus simplicibus 

 raro furcatis. 



Lomaria variabilis, Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 294; Blume, Enum. Plant. Jav. p. 203? 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands : ascending the trunks of trees. 



Eootstock scandent, thick (succulent in a recent state), and imbri- 

 cated with slender, entire, lanceolate, attenuate, chaffy scales, which 

 extend to the lower half of the stipes, ffl-onds pimiate; the sterile 

 much the longer (our fertile specimens are all very young). Pinnae, 

 on a short petiole (with the exception of the terminal one, which is 

 sessile), articulated with the rhachis, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate 

 at the base, from 5 to 6 inches long and 10 lines broad, smooth on both 

 surfaces, of a dark green colour and glossy on the upper, with very 

 prominent, simple, parallel veins, which occasionally fork near the costa ; 

 the margin slightly undulate : fertile pinnae, from 6 to 7 inches long, 

 linear. Stipe and rhachis smooth, nearly round, with a shallow 

 groove in front. 



From S. longifolia this is distinguished by the pinnae of the sterile 



