TAB. XLIV. • 





FILICES. 



NIPHOBOLUS 



BICOLOR. 





GyraTVE. Br. 



OLYPODiACEiu. Kaulf Filices veree. Willd., Spren 



g 



Gen. Char. NIPHOBOLUS, Kaulf. 



tecti. Involucrum nullum. 



Sori subrotundi, congesti, terminales, pilis stellatis ob- 



Niphobolus bicolor 



fronde lineari-lanceolata obtusa bas 



1 



in stipitem attenuata, subtus stellulato 



prominente, soris subdi 



Niphobolus bicolor. 

 Polypodium stellatum 



Kaulf. Enum. Fil.p. 128 

 Vahl. Symb. 3. p. 104. 



i 



Spreng. Syst. Veg. v.A.p 



P 



5 



Schkuhr* Fil 



Swartz. Syn. Fil. p 



Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. 



CC 



Polypodium serpens. Forster, Prodr. n. 435 



95 



Polypodium stoloniferum 



Gmel. Linn. v. 2. p. 1305 



Hab. In Nova Zeelandia. Forster. 



Caudex repens, flexuosus, pennae corvinae crassitie, squamis numerosis arcte appressis tectus, inferne hic et illic 



radiculosus. 



Stipes duas ad tres uncias longus, pilis minutis radiatis obsitus. 



Frons digitalis ad palmarem, coriacea, lineari-lanceolata, basi attenuata, apice obtusa, margine omnino integerrima, 



costa subtus prominente, facie superna viridi pilis radiatis sparsa, subtus dense stellato- vel radiatim 



costata, 



pilosa, albo-tomentosa. Hae stellulse e pilis pellucidis 



10. 



Sori in parte superiore frondis numerosi valde convexi fere hemisphaerici, fusci, approximati, vel discreti 

 Cajpsulce longe pedicellatae, ovato-sphaericae, lato annulatae, pilis radiatis longe stipitatis peltatis immixtae 

 Semina reniformia, subangulata, flavo-virescentia. 



Fig 



Pili stellati e dorso frondis 



f. 2. Pili stellati stipitati 



f. 3. Capsulae. f. 4. Semina 



magn 



Whether or not the genus Niphobolus, (so called from the snow-like covering of down which 



invests several of the species,) be founded 



we do not at present pretend to determine 



Perhaps it may be better 



porate its species, as well as those of P/eopeltis, as had previously 



been done, with Polypodium. Indeed, with Pleopeltis our genus has much affinity ; the stellated 

 or radiated hairs in Niphobolus being exactly analogous to the little peltate scales of that genus. 



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