TAB. CLXXVI. 
ADENOPHORUS HYMENOPHYLLOIDES. 
(A. MINUTUS in TasuraM.) 
FILICES.—Gvnarz. Br. Porvropiaczzm. Kaulf.  FiricEs vere. Willd. 
Gzw. CHag.. J4DENOPHORUS, Gaudich. Seri subrotundi, solitarii, subterminales, apici 
venz in receptaculum dilatato, irregulariter bilobo insidentes. ^ Capsule glandulis stipitatis 
intermixte. —Zndusium nullum. Frondes utrinque glandulose. Gaudich. 
ApENoPHORUSs /uymenophylloides ; frondibus oblongis seu lineari-oblongis bipinnatis, laciniis ob- 
ovatis decurrentibus, stipite gracillimo filiformi immarginato. 
Adenophorus minutus. Gaudich. in Freycin. Voy. Bot. v. 1. p. 365. t. 8. f. 3. (et Tab. nostr. 176.) 
Polypodium hymenophylloides. —.Kau/f- Enum. Fl. p. 118. 
Has. In O Wahu. Chamisso. 
Radix fasciculato-fibrosa (Gaudich.). 
Caudex csespitosus, paleis minutis lanceolato-subulatis ferrugineis tectus, fide Kaulfussii. 
Stipes erectus, gracillimus, filiformis, nigricans, immarginatus vix unciam longus, hic illic setoso-squamulosus. 
Frons digitalis, oblongo-lanceolata vel lineari-oblonga, bipinnata; pinnis brevibus approximatis oblongis obtusis. 
Pinnulz seu làcinise semper obovatee, integerrimse, coriaceo-membranaces, utrinque setis vel squamulis ob- 
longis clavatisque adspersis tectee. — lachis etiam squamosa, plano-dilatata. 
Fructificatio ut in duabus speciebus jamdudum descriptis. | 
Fig. 1l. Pinna. f. 2. Pinnula seu lacinia. f. 3. Capsule cum glandulis clavatis pedicellatis. f. 4. Squamule 
frondis. f. 5. Semina:—magn. auct. 
This species appears very distinct from the two figured and described at Tab. 174 & 175 ; &nd still 
more so from the 4. tripinnatifidus of Gaudichaud, of which we have specimens gathered by 
Mr. Macrae, through the liberality of the Horticultural Society, and which is the tallest and largest 
- of the genus; well figured in the botanical part of Fr eycinet s Voyage, t. 8. f. 1. 
As in the genus ZIymenophyllum and Trichomanes, it is often difficult in the prole one to say 
whether the fronds should be called bipinnate or bipinnatifid, the rachis being flat and dilated, and 
of the same substance as the pinne or laciniz€ themselves; while these latter are so distinct and 
remote as to appear like true leaflets. In all the species, the colour, in the dried state at least, 
borders upon brown. 
