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slender, with 3 or 4 shallow grooves in front, and beset with brown 

 glandular hairs. Fronds broadly-ovate, cordate, acuminate, subtri- 

 pinnate at the base, about the middle bipinnate, with a pinnatifid 

 point. Pinnules subpinnatifid, oblong-lanceolate, acute, and, with the 

 rhachis and costa on both sides, rufous-tomentose. Sori very small. 



14. Lastrea tenuifolia, Sp. Nov. 



L. stipite angulato squamoso-hirsuto ; frondibus membranaceis basi fere 

 tripinnatis sursum bipinnatis apice pimiatifido; pinnulis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis acutis pimiatipartitis basi obliquis adnato-decurrentibus, 

 laciniis linear •i-oblongis, inferioribus inciso-serratis ; rhachi costa venis- 

 que utrinque paleaceis glanduloso-hirsutis ; sorts pwrvis; indusio reni- 

 formi lacero. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands : in mountain forests. 



Stipe a little over a foot in length, about the thickness of a crow- 

 quill, obtusely angled, furnished with glandular, articulated hairs, 

 intermingled with slender brownish scales. Fronds membranaceous, 

 about equal in length with the stipe, triangular-ovate, ending in a 

 narrow, acuminate, pinnatifid point, and slightly cordate at the base, 

 where they are subtripinnate, bipinnate about the middle. Pinnules 

 about Ik inches long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, deeply pinnatifid. Seg- 

 ments linear-oblong, acute, the inferior ones deeply serrated, or even 

 pinnatifid on many of the pinnules, the lower and inferior one the 

 shortest, adnate, decurrent, triangular. Rhachis, costa, and veins on 

 both sides beset with numerous slender scales and short glandular 

 hairs, of a brownish colour. Sori numerous, small, rather distant, 

 seated about equidistant between the cost^form vein and the margin 

 of the segments. Indusium reniform and much lacerated. 



This apparently is nearly related to Aspidium tenuisectum of Blume, 

 15. Lastrea glabella. 



Nephrodinm glabellum, A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 367. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand : in humid forests. 



