polypodiace^:. 127 



chaud with a doubt, refers as a synonyme to his L. setigera. The 

 species is a noble one ; its rigid fronds arise from the crown of a short 

 thick trunk, forming altogether a sort of miniature tree, which inha- 

 bits the more sheltered declivities of the rugged bleak hills peculiar 

 to that country, and among thickets of Fagus antarctica and Drimys 

 Winteri. 



14. LOMARIA CAPENSIS, Willd. 

 Lomaria capensis, Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 291. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope ; at the base of Table Mountain. 



The pinnae of the sterile fronds are very much crowded, alternate, 

 sessile and lanceolate, attenuate, with a finely serrulate margin, semi- 

 cordate and clasping at the base ; those of the fertile frond about an 

 inch apart, long-linear, with a paleaceous rhachis. Our specimens 

 are without stipes, and the fertile fronds are too young for us to detect 

 the crenate incised indusium described by Willdenow. 



15. Lomaria procera, Spreng. 



Lomaria procera, Spreng. ex A. Cunn. in Hook. Cornp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 363 (excl. 



var.); Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 75. 

 Blechnum procerum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 115; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 415. 

 Stegania procera, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 153; A. Rich. Bot. Yoy. Astrol. 



1832, p. 86, t. 13, excl. ster. frond. 



Hab. Marshes, in the vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 

 Tahiti, Society Islands : in mountain forests. 



The figure in the Botany of the Voyage of the Astrolabe, cited 

 above, purporting to be the Stegania procera of K. Brown, appears very 

 evidently to be composed of two distinct species ; the sterile frond 

 being that of P. discolor of Willdenow ; the fertile clearly belonging to 

 the plant now under consideration. Hooker and Arnott, in the 

 Botany of Beechey's Voyage, were correct, we think, in referring the 

 Tahiti plant hither. 



