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glaucous ; margin dotted, revolute ; lowermost small, remote, 
oMong, cuneate, rounded ; terminal one often pinnatifid ; 
fertile pinna narrow, linear, sharp-pointed ; involucres more 
or less gnawed. Stipes and the creeping caudex paleaceous. 
Blechnum heterophyllum. Schlecht. Adumb. p. 37, tab. 20 
and 22, fig. 1. Lomaria gigantea and L. hamata. Kaulf’., 1. 
c., p. 150. 
In the bushes at the foot of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch 
(Bergius) ; in forests of George (Drege.) ; Albany (Dr.Ather- 
stone) ; and Natal (Gueinzius.) v. s. 
* 73 Lomaria cycadoides. Nob. (N. sp.) Fronds pin- 
nate, coriaceous ; pinna alternate, remote, erect, sessile, 
glabrous, auricled at base ; sterile ones lanceolate, oblong, 
blunt, very veiny, revolute, glossy, entire, dotted at the 
margin ; fertile pinna linear-lanceolate, recurved at the apex ; 
rachises and angular stipes smooth ; caudex scaly, comose. 
In the woods of Natal. (Plant No. 335.) v. s. 
A sterile specimen of the same Fern, from Madagascar, is pre- 
served in Dr. Pappe’s collection. 
74. Lomaria a ttenuata. Willd. Sterile fronds pinnatifid ; 
segments lanceolate-oblong, attenuate, acuminate, entire, the 
uppermost elongated ; fertile pinna pinnate ; pinna linear ; 
involucres torn, denticulated ; caudex oblique, clothed with 
long, ferruginous scales. Willd. Spec. Plantar., vol. 5, p. 
290. Kze. Linnaea., vol. 18, p. 116. 
In shady places at Natal. (Gueinzius ) 
75. Lomaria inflexa . Kze. Fronds pinnate, lanceolate, 
coriaceous, smooth ; sterile pinna adnate, alternate, approx- 
imate, patent, somewhat auricled, oblong, falcate, blunt, pale 
at the underside ; fertile pinna stalked, erect, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, mucronate, curvato-inflexed ; rachis purple, paleacous. 
Stipes short, dark-purple, ebenous, surrounded at base by large 
subulate, lanceolate, brown scales. Kunze. Linnasa., vol. 
18, p. 117. Suppl. to Schkuhr’s Filic., tab. 65. 
In moist places at Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s. 
76. Lomaria punctulata. Kze. Fronds pinnate, glabrous ; 
sterile pinna alternate, sessile, sub-imbricated, linear-lance-* 
date, auriculato-cordate, acuminate, sub-falcate, entire, re- 
flexed and dotted at the margins ; lowermost pinna smaller, 
oblong, obtuse; fertile pinna patent, remote, linear, mucronate. 
