j 76 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. 
Hub. Shaded woods, in decomposing vegetable soil, in 
the Ruatahuna distret; with preceding; Jan., 1842. 
18. L. nigra, n.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, tomentose, 5—6^ 
inches: Stipe, channelled, hairy, 1^—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, 2£—3 
inches long: Rachis , tomentose and scaly, 3—4 inches : 
Stipe, cylindrical, fibrous, hairy, scaly at base, 3—4 inches* 
Root, fibrous. 
Ilab. 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, 
