

TAB. XCllI 



NIPHOBOLUS RUPESTRTS 



FILICES.— Gyratte. Br. Polypodiace^. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd., Spreng. 





Gen. Char. NIPHOBOLUS, Kaulf. Sari subrotundi, congesti, terminales, pilis stellatis 



obtecti. Spreng. 





Niphobolus rupestris; frondibus integerrimis tomentosis subtus incanis, sterilibus obovatis ob- 



lon^isve fertilibus linearibus, soris sparsis parum confluentibus, surculo squamoso radicante 



A 3 ^ 



ramosissimo. Br. 



Nipbobolus rupestris. Spreng. Syst. Ve. 



P 



Polypodium rupestre 



Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. I. p. i 46 



Hab. Apud Port Jackson, Nov. Holl. Br., D. Fr 

 Bot. Glasg. 



Radix e fibris numerosis nigro-fuscis ramosis. 



In Nova Zeeland 



Cult. in Ho 



i 





Caudex repens 



u 



ramosissimus," squamis minutis dense ob 



Stipes biuncialis, basi squamosus, dein nudus 

 Frondes coriacese, ubique densissime piloso- 



tomentosae, dorso virides, subt 



steriles* nostris 





speciminibus, nunc fere exacte ovales, obovatae vel oblongae, integerrimae 

 Hneares, vel lineari-lanceolatae, sterilibus duplo longiores, integerrimae, 

 omnes costatae, costa subtus prominente. 



basi 



sesquiunciam longae; fertiles 

 tenuatae, apice obtusiusculae ; 





Sori praecipue versus extremitatem frondis prominentes, fusci, approximati et subconfl 



Cajpsulce, pili stcllati stipitati et semina fere omnino ut in N. bicolore. 



Yw. 1. Pili frondis. f. 2. Pili e soris. f. 3. Capsulae. f. 4>. Semina:— magn. auct. 



y 





Mr. Brown has already observed, that this plant is allied to Polypodmm stellatum (N. bicolor of 

 this work) and to P. adnascens ; and all are downy with the same curiously stellated pubescence. 



to Mr. Lindley for some of our specimens of this plant, and which are marked 



We are indebted 



coming from New Zealand ; but we know not by whom gathered 



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