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GENUS XXXIIL— LOMARIA. {Willd.) 
{Loma, fringe or border ; relating to the indusium.) 
Sori linear continuous, parallel with the midrib and occupying 
the whole, or nearly the whole, of the space between it and 
the edge ; indusium membranous, formed of the revolute edge of the 
frond. Fronds dimorphous, usually once or twice pinnatifid or 
pinnate, rarely simple or bi-pinnate ; veins free ; ring of capsule 
vertical. 
I. LoMARiA Patersoni. {Spreug.) Rhizome short-creeping; 
stipes 2-3 inches long, wiry, erect, rather scaly below ; sterile frond 
simple, about i foot long and i inch broad, narrowed at both ends, 
or pinnatifid, 2 feet or more long, cut down nearly to the rachis into 
6-12 segments on each side, which are often 6-9 inches long and 
nearly i inch broad, and suddenly decurrent at the base ; texture 
coriaceous ; fertile fronds simple and only ^ inch broad, or pinnatifid 
with numerous segments on each side, 6 inches long by |- inch broad ; 
or the fronds are sometimes in part sterile, in part fertile ; veins 
prominent in the young sterile fronds, inconspicuous in mature 
fronds, forked, thickened at the apex close to the margin; sori 
covering the whole space between midrib and margin. Spr. Sys. 
Veg. iv. 62. Hook. Syn. Fil, 174. L. elongata (Blume), Bedd. F. S. 
1. t. 28, 28A. 
Nilgiris and Anamallays 5,000-8,000 feet elevation. Ceylon, 
4,000 feet and upwards. Nilgiris examples have the fertile fronds 
always pinnatifid as far as I have observed, and the sterile ones 
generally so. From Ceylon I have examples with the sterile and 
fertile both quite simple. 
(Also in the Philippines, Fiji, New Zealand, S. Australia, and 
Tasmania.) 
