726 CXLVII. FILICES. 
23. HYPOLEPIS, Bernh. 
Rhizome creeping. Fronds Tehe, usually large, n pinnules 
Een id marginal, short, in the sinus of the teeth ofthe 
nules. usium a small scale SB DhrDE with the margin, 
cepe over she sorus, the spore-cases attached at its base. 
The genus oe but few species dispersed over the tropical and subtropical 
regions of mes w and the Old World, the only Australian species being limited to 
the Old Wor 
1. H. tenuifolia, Bernh. ; Hook. Spec. Filie. ii. 60, t. 89,90, Syn. 
Filic. 129.— Fronds 4 to 5 ft. high including the stipes and often above 
ft. broad, 3 or 4 times pinnate. Tertiary pinne lanoso deeply 
pinnatifid or pinnate; fruiting pinnules or segments 2 to 4 lines long, 
crenate-toothed. Rh: achis and under side of the segments usually 
EF hairy. Sori few or atea to ene segment in the sinus of the 
, the reflexed seale-like indusium at first often covering the sorus 
iei in an ees stage almost concealed under the sorus or quite 
withered away. 
gegen Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
N.S, Wales. — River, C. Moore; Lord Howe's Island, very abundant, 
C. Moore, Sawa and other 
Also in t e Malayan Archipelago, ed South Pacific Islands and New Zealand, 
but not in ond ani The fronds, especially in an advanced state of M 
bear a "gd resemblance to those of Polk ypodium — and are icing es 
erent it in herbaria, but, if the insertion of the sori be carefully ex oa 
ts will I believe always be readily distingui 
24. CHEILANTHES, Swartz. 
Rhizome tufted or creeping. Fronds usually small, twice or thrice 
pne ate ue small lobed poginanta. Sori snus and distinct at the 
of the veinlets or oblon by the S e or more, 
PL the slightly altered eae or lobes bent over han and forming 
an indusium with the NUS eMe. inserted at their base as in Pteris. 
ign forked from a central n 
nsiderable genus widely or over the eg and teenporn regions of de 
Now aad the ea aipe sorely differin ng from Peris in the greater distinctness 0 
the so of species one is diti, the other, if truly dist tinct, i$. 
. 
lonis e. 
Ultimate lobes of the fronds obovate » an. 1 to 2 lines d 
. long, or rarely ovate-lanceolate an er . 1. C. tenuifolia. 
Pinnules 8 ending in a linear lobe eai sad hit in. long . . . 2. C. caudata. 
| (See also NorzorxNa, where the margin forms a spurious indusium.) 
* f yg reece) Swartz; Hook. Spec. Filic. ii. 82, t. uf 
: Filic. —Rhizome horizontal or shortly creeping often k notty. 
zt Fronde E. 2 or 3 in. to nearly 1 ft. high, from narrow lanceolate to 
