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The fronds are glabrous, about 8 inches high, simple, linear-filiform, 

 compressed and channelled. Fertile appendages recurved, pinnate. 

 Pinnae pectinate, about 12 to 15 pairs ; the margin of the indusium 

 ciliate. 



2. Schiz^a propinqua, A. Cunn. 



Schizcea propinqua, A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 362. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand ; frequent in 

 high, open lands. 



Rootstock subterranean ; the fronds undivided, and from 10 to 15 

 inches high, terete, and filiform, with a single groove on the back. 

 Fertile appendages about an inch long, nearly erect, pinnate. Pinnae 

 from 18 to 25 pairs. Indusium lacerated. 



3. SCHIZ^EA AUSTRALIS, Gaud. 



S. frondibus fasciculatis ccespitosis simplicissimis flexuosis linearibus 

 compressis postice sulcatis antice ocellato-notatis ; appendicibus ferti- 

 libus suberectis pinnatis, pinnis b-1-jugis palrnato-lobatis. 



Schizcea australis, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 296 ; Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. 1, p. 111. 

 S. palmata, Montague, Bot. Voy. Astrol. & Zelee (1844), t. 4, f. Z, sine descr. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. Tahiti, Society Islands : on trees, at an 

 elevation of 3,000 feet. 



Fronds tufted, from 10 to 15 in number, and 4 to 8 inches high, 

 arising from a thick globose rootstock, narrow-Zmear, rigid, somewhat 

 flexuose, compressed, smooth, with a single groove behind, and two 

 opposite slightly depressed lines of ovate spots in front, the margins of 

 which are sometimes ciliate. Fertile appendages nearly erect, not 

 quite half an inch in length, pinnate, and of a deep brown colour. 

 Pinnae, from 5 to 7 pairs, their slightly reflexed indusiiform margin 

 divided into palmate lobes. 



