Lomaria .J 
I. FILICES. 
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high, linear-lanceolate, pinnate, subflexuose ; stipes short, and rachis with- 
out scales; barren pinnules oral-oblong, broadly adnate, not decurrent, obtuse, 
dentate-serrate, uppermost confluent, lowermost suborbicular ; fertile fronds 
longer than the barren, with a longer stipes, and remote, linear, sessile api- 
culate pinnules, the lowest minute. — Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 35. t. 145. 
Northern Island: Bay of Islands, common, Colenso, etc.; Waiheki Island, Auckland, 
JolHffe. Middle Island : Otago, Hector and Buchanan. Closely allied to L.ftuoiatUis. 
5. L. pumila, Raoul, Choix, t. 2 A; — FI. N. Z. ii. 28. Rhizome slen- 
der, creeping, with wiry roots, and chaffy fulvous scales at the tip. Fronds 
tufted, membranous, lanceolate, rather obtuse, tapering to the base, 3-5 in. 
long, barren pinnatifid ; stipes slender, chaffy at the base ; rachis slender, gla- 
brous ; pinnules ovate or ovate-oblong, | in. long, obtuse, entire or subcre- 
nate : fertile fronds with longer stipes, pinnate ; pinnules oblong, obtuse, mu- 
cronate, more or less decurrent at the base. — Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 19. 
Middle Island : Akaroa, Raoul. 
6. L. vulcanica, Blume ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 29. Rhizome stout, woody, 
often as thick as the wrist. Fronds tufted, coriaceous, 4-1 8 in. long, ovate- 
lanceolate or deltoid, pinnatifid above, almost pinnate below ; stipes slender, 
pale, crinite with blackish chaffy bristles at the base ; barren pinnules close-set, 
1^-3 in. long, adnate by a broad base, lower decurved, falcate, acuminate, 
rarely obtuse, margin thickened, entire or irregularly crenate, glabious or 
pubescent on the rachis and costa ; fertile pinnules very narrow ; involucres 
lacerate. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 969 ; Sp. Fil. iii. 13; L. dejlexa and deltoidea, 
Colenso. 
Northern Island 4 Tarawera, east coast, etc., Colenso Auckland, Sinclair ; Tarmaki, 
etc. {Mrs. Jones). Middle Island: Nelson (Mrs. Jones ) : Otago, subalpine, Hector and 
Buchanan. Also found in Tasmania, Java, and some of the Pacific Islands. Colenso sends 
a small state with an enormous rhizome and small fronds (var. nana, Hook. Sp. Fil. 1. c.). 
7. L. elongata, Blume ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 29. Rhizome short, creeping. 
Fronds alternate, very coriaceous, glabrous, pendulous, 1-3 ft. long, smooth, 
shining, dark-green, entire lobed or pinnatifid ; stipes stout, with a few large 
scales, winged ; rachis broadly winged ; barren fronds pinnatifid ; pinnules few, 
remote, 1-2 in. broad, 2-5 in. long, linear-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, often 
serrate at the tip, each decurrent and connate with the next below it ; veins 
terminating in a depression within the margin ; fertile fronds pinnatifid ; pin- 
nules very slender, 3-19 in. long. Involucre with torn edges. — Hook. Sp. 
Fil. iii. 3. t. 143 ; L. Colensoi, Hook. f. in Ic. PI. t. 627, 628 ; L. hetero- 
phgUa, Colenso. 
Mountainous parts of the Northern Island-. Waikare lake, Colenso Port Nicholson, 
Sinclair ; Mount Egmont (Mrs. Jones). Middle Island : Ship Cove, Lyall ; Otago, Hec- 
tor and Buchanan. Also found iu Java, India, and the Malay and Pacific Islands. 
8. L. lanceolata, Sprengel ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 29. Rhizome stout, erect 
or ascending, sometimes 2 ft. high. Fronds tufted, erect, pale-green, 1-2 ft. 
high, rather membranous, quite glabrous, narrow-linear or elongate, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, narrowed below ; barren fronds pinnatifid or pinnate at the 
very base ; stipes short, stout, with long black subulate scales at the base ; 
rachis and costa quite glabrous ; pinnules of barren fronds numerous, close set, 
