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i?ig, and about the thickness of a crowquill, with numerous brown 

 pubescent fibres. Stipe of the fertile frond about twice the length 

 of the sterile one, smooth, shining, and nearly round, of a blackish 

 colour, to within an inch of the lower pinnae, then, together with the 

 rhachis brown and sparsely paleaceous. The two kinds of fronds 

 about equal in length, the sterile one the broadest. 



Related to the preceding species; from which it differs in the longer 

 and creeping roots tock, the constantly much smaller and deeper divided 

 fronds, with shorter, more obtuse and crowded pinnae, and the almost 

 entire absence of short lobes on the stipe, so peculiar to L. spicant; as 

 well as in the consistence of its indusium. 



7. LoxMAria onocleoides, Spreng. 



Lomaria onocleoides, Spreng. ex Presl, Tent. Pterid. p. 142. 



Blechnum onocleoides, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 115; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 409. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, and vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



Both kinds of fronds in this species are strictly lanceolate; the 

 sterile one coriaceous, deeply pinnatifid, and glabrous, with immersed, 

 forked, parallel veins; its pinnae subfalcate, linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate ; the margin beset above with raised dots. Fertile fronds pinnate, 

 with long-linear and distant pinnae, mucronate at the point. 



8. Lomaria doodioides, Sp. Nov. 



L. stipite subtrigono brevi purpurascente Iwvi; frondibus sterilibus rigidis 

 lanceolatis attenuatis pinnatipartitis ; pimiis confertis oblongodanceo- 

 latis falcatis obtusis margine reflexis crenato-dentatis • fr. fertilibus 

 lanceolatis pinnatis caudato-acuminatis basi attenuatis; pimiis remotis 

 elongato-linearibus acutis; indusio membranaceo. 



Hab. Sandal-wood Bay, Feejee Islands. 



Stipe short, somewhat three-angled, smooth, and of a purplish colour. 

 Sterile fronds rigid, lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid. Pinna? rather 

 crowded, of an oblong-lanceolate form, obtuse and falcate; inferior ones 



