Colenso. — On some New Ferns. 399 



Hab. Interior deep damp forests at Dannevirke, County 

 of Waipawa ; March, 1894 : W. G. 



Obs. A highly curious species, differing much from any 

 other of this genus known to me ; its bushy decumbent dark- 

 green spreading aspect is most striking. It was plentiful 

 there in two spots ; but. though I brought away many speci- 

 mens, I have not detected any male flowers save one old 

 anther tit che base of a spikelet ; and, on seeking fresh speci- 

 mens in the following summer season, I found the whole 

 forest had been felled and burnt, thus destroying much 

 valuable timber ! 



Art, XLVII. — A Description of Two Neio Ferns and One 

 New Lycopodium, lately detected in our New Zealand 

 Forests. 



By W. Colenso, F.R.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 12th November, 



1894.] 



Genus 2.* Hemitelia, Br. 

 1. H. microphylla, sp. nov. 



Trunk erect, 9ft. to 10ft. high, stout, girth nearly equal 

 throughout, at base 20in., near top 21in., with numerous old 

 and dry bleached stipites (without their pinnae) hanging 

 down from below crown. Fronds, rather few, 15, spread- 

 ing, horizontal, sub-oblong-lanceolate, broadest above middle, 

 5ift.-6ft. long, 2ft. Gin. wide, bipinnate, grass-green above, 

 pale-green below, softish, densely clothed with light-brown 

 scales and hairs ; rhachis dark mahogany-brown and glossy 

 below, w T ith a pale continuous raised line above, lateral from 

 pinna to pinna; stipe short, sub 5in., very scaly, scales long. 

 Pinnae linear-oblong, tip very acuminate, loin, long, 3Jin. 

 wide near base, 3^in. apart on rhachis, opposite, leafy to base ; 

 pinnules regular, close but not imbricate, Ifin. long, ihi. 

 wide, broadest at base, lower pair of segments pinnate and 

 overlapping rhachis. Segments linear-oblong, entire, some- 

 times slightly crenulate, sub-serrate-crenate at tip ; tip acute 

 submucronate. Sori orbicular, regularly disposed at base of 

 lowest pair of forked veins, 2-4 on a segment. Involucre 

 rather large, concave, three-fourths round sorus, gaping, per- 

 sistent, closed on costal side, pale, with dark centre, margin 



* In " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora " included in Cyathea. 



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