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nummularifolia Hook. f. and 0. cymbifolia Hook. f. (Compositae) . 

 The inflorescence and florets are alike in both species, but the 

 leaves are apparently most distinct, those of the former species 



Fig. 3 Colony of Hymenophyllum Mali ngii. Photograph by A. Hamilton. 



being virtually flat, and those of the latter boat-shaped, through 

 their strongly revolute margins. In free nature these distinc- 

 tions hold and the two species may grow side by side in the same 



