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Classification and Description 
long, 5—9 inches ; some fronds, simple, lanceolate, acuminate 
and entire, slightly undulate, 8 — 12 inches; colour, dark 
dirty green on upper, and discoloured on under, surface* 
Stipe, channelled, glabrous, black, 5 — 9 inches, scaly at 
base. Fertile frond , 8 — 20 inches, pinnatifid : lobes, 
linear-lanceolate, very caudate, sub-acute, irregular, decurrent, 
alternate, 4 — 8 inches, twisted in fructification : Stipe , chan- 
nelled, glabrous, 6 — 12 inches, scaly at base. 
Hab. Shaded woods, in decomposing vegetable soil, in 
the Ruatahuna district; with preceding ; Jan., 1842. 
18. L. NIGRA, li. sp. Plant , depressed, prostrate, spread- 
ing, terrestrial; colour, dark-green approaching to black. 
Sterile frond , oblong-lanceolate, lyrate-pinnatilid ; length, 
6—8 inches ; breadth, 12—15 lines : lobes , oblong, obtuse, 
broadest at base, very irregularly toothed and jagged, sub- 
revolute, veined, blistered, roughish, and alternate, 6 — 9 lines 
long, 3 — 4 lines broad ; two next to lowest the smallest ; ter- 
minal lobe, 1 — 2 inches long : Rachis , toraentose, 5— 6J 
inches : Stipe , channelled, hairy, 1J — 2J inches ; dark 
brown. Fertile frond , pinnate : pinnules , linear, obtuse, 
tomentose on upper surface, sessile, alternate, 12 — 15 lines 
long, 2 lines broad ; terminal pinnule much caudate, 2J — 3 
inches long : Rachis , tomentose and scaly, 3 — 4 inches : 
Stipe , cylindrical, fibrous, hairy, scaly at base, 3—4 inches. 
Root , fibrous. 
Hab . Low and shady humid spots, in the dense forest 
between Tauranga and Rotorua, E. Coast ; Jan., 1842. 
19. L. linearis, n. sp. Plant , caespitose, terrestrial. 
Fronds , linear-lanceolate. Sterile frond , pinnatifid, often 
decumbent, spreading, 4 — 6 inches : lobes, somewhat oblong, 
obtuse and sub-acute, revolute, opposite, confluent, smooth, 
entire, and veined, 4—6 lines in length ; lowermost smallest 
and semi-circular ; colour, yellowish-green, sometimes red- 
dish : Rachis , smooth, with here and there a long scale : 
Stipe, smooth, obtusely angled, scaly at base, 3—4 inches. 
