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Lomaria.]

3. L. vulcanica, ''Blume, En. Fil. Jav.'' ii. 202.—Rhizome short, stout, woody, erect or inclined, densely clothed with the remains of the old stipites. Stipes 4–9 in. long, lender, pale yellow-brown, clothed towards the base with dark-brown shining subulate scales, smooth and polished above. Sterile fronds 4–14 in. long without the stipes, 2–5 in. broad at the base, lanceolate-deltoid, not narrowed below, acuminate, coriaceous, dull-green, glabrous or the surfaces and margins sprinkled with soft white hairs, pinnate at the base, pinnatifid above. Pinnæ 1–3 in. long, ½–⅓ in. broad, spreading, lanceolate or ensiform, broadest at the base, acute or obtuse at the tip, falcate, lowest pair deflexed; margins thickened, entire or minutely crenate-undulate. Veins free, forked. Fertile fronds usually exceeding the sterile and with a longer stipes, pinnate in the lower half; pinnæ 1–2 in. long, linear, distant, with a dilated adnate base. Sori continuous; indusium with lacerate margins.—''Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 969; Sp. Fil.'' iii. 12; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' ii. 29; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 367; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 176; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 735; ''Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 65; Field, N.Z. Ferns,'' 99, t. 27, f. 5, 5a. L. deitoides, ''Col. in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Sci.'' (1845) 17. L. deflexa, Col. I.c. 18. L. paucijuga, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xx. (1888) 222. Blechnum vulcanicum, Christ.

4. L. Norfolkiana, ''Heward in Lond. Journ. Bot.'' (1842) 122.—Rhizome short, stout, erect or inclined, clothed with the bases of the old stipites mixed with dark-brown chaffy scales. Stipes short, stout, 2–4 in. long, scaly at the base. Sterile fronds numerous, forming a crown at the top of the rhizome, erect or spreading, 1–3 ft. high, 3–6 in. broad, lanceolate or narrow elliptic-lanceolate, gradually tapering from the middle to both ends, acuminate, dark-green, firm but scarcely coriaceous, quite glabrous, deeply pinnatifid or pinnate at the base. Pinnæ numerous, close-set, horizontally spreading, 1½–3 in. long, ⅓–⅔ in. broad, lanceolate, tapering from a broad adnate base to an acuminate point, subfalcate, the lower ones