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which has a very wide range of habitat ; for, besides being found 

 in the same places as the above-named species, it is also a native of the 

 Mauritius, Bourbon, Johanna, and Seychelles Islands, as well as of Natal and 

 Cape Colony, and requires stove temperature. Its ample fronds, similar in 

 shape and cutting to those of the species just described, are 2ft. to 4ft. 

 long, and borne on strong, upright stalks 1ft. to 2ft. long, densely clothed 

 with woolly or downy pubescence. The lower leaflets, sometimes 1ft. to 



fig. 107. Pinna of Lonctiitis pubescens 

 (i nat. size). 



IJft. long and 4in. to 5in. broad, are furnished with spear-shaped leafits of 

 a light green colour and very soft texture, cut down nearly or quite to 

 the midrib below into blunt, oblong, waved segments (Fig. 107). In this 

 handsome species the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) and under- surface, 

 especially the midrib, are conspicuously downy, and the sori (spore masses) 

 are placed round the main sinuses (depressions) of the leafits and in two 

 or three of the segments on each side. — Hooker., Species Filicum, ii., p. 56. 



LORINSERIA— Lor-in-se -ri-a. See Woodwardia. 

 LOXOSCAPHE— Lox-os -caph-e. See Davallia, 



