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nearly round, their margins reflexed and crenate-dentate ; fertile fronds 

 lanceolate and pinnate, the apex narrowed into a long tail-like point, 

 the base attenuated. Pinnce distant, long-linear, and acute. Indusium 

 membranaceous. 



The size and outline of the sterile fronds resemble very much those 

 of Doodia aspera of Robert Brown. 



9. LOMARIA NUDA, Labill. 



Lomaria nuda, Labill. ex Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 289 ; B, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 

 p. 153 } Presl, Tent. Pterid. p. 142. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



Stipes smooth, shining, and angular, having a few linear-attenuate 

 scales at the base, and, with the inferior half of the rhachis, black. 



10. Lomaria pilosa, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 15.) 



L. stipite semitereti pnnctis elevatis aspero basi squamigero; frondibus 

 rigid is deltoid eo-ovatis acuminatis pinnatis; ster ilium pinnis adnatis 

 subopjpositis oblon go-linear ibus attenuatis margine revolutis undulatis 

 basi superne subauriculatis • fertilium elongato-linearibus obtusis basi 

 superne lobato-auriculatis, venis prominentibus costisque subtus pilosis ; 

 indusio membranaceo lacero. 



Hab. Feejee Islands : in mountain forests ; rare. 



Stipe of a pale straw colour, from 10 to 12 inches long, half round, 

 with a shallow channel in front, and at the base having long, slender, 

 attenuate, dark brown scales, roughened with a number of short, hard, 

 raised points. Fronds pinnate, deltoid-ovate, acuminate, 16 to 18 inches 

 long, 10 to 12 inches broad at the base, of a lively green colour, rigid, 

 smooth on the upper surface, while beneath the veins are very promi- 

 nent, and with the costa pilose with weak, whitish, articulated hairs. 

 Inferior sterile pinnce nearly opposite and deflexed ; a little towards the 

 point alternate, approximate, and nearly horizontal ; the fertile pinnae 



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