956 FILICES. [Davallia. 
Norrtu Isuanp: Three Kings Islands, abundant, 7. F’. C. 
Very close to the northern D. canariensis, L., but stouter and more coria- 
ceous, and not so finely cut. 
2. D. Forsteri, Carruthers in Seem. Fl. Viti. 339. — “‘ Stipes 
6-8 in. long, naked, stramineous. Frond rhomboid, 4-pinnate, 6 in. 
long; pinne and pinnules ascending, rhomboid, stalked, the lowest 
the largest, cuneate-truncate on the lower side at the base; final 
segments ligulate - cuneate, 2-4 lines long, under 4 line broad; 
texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked ; sori minute, terminal, with 
the lamina produced on each side as a border.’—Bak. Syn. Fil. 
(edit. 2) 470; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 49; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 74. Adian- 
tum clavatum, Forst. Prodr. n. 459. 
Souru Isuanp: Dusky Bay, Forster. 
Only known from Forster's specimens preserved in the British Museum 
Herbarium. Mr. Baker remarks that it is very near the New Caledonian 
D. scoparia, but the sori are smaller and bordered. In all probability it was 
collected by Forster in some locality in Polynesia, and accidentally mixed with 
his New Zealand plants. 
3. D. novee-zealandie, Col. in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Scr. (1845) 
22.—Rhizome long, branched, wide-creeping, as thick as a quill, 
clothed with yellowish-brown linear scales. Stipes 6-18 in. long, 
red-brown, firm, erect, rough and bristly at the base, smooth and 
polished above. Fronds 1—-2ft. long, 6-12in. broad, ovate-oblong 
to deltoid, acuminate, firm but scarcely coriaceous, tripinnate ; 
rhachis flexuose, channelled above, glabrous or pubescent at the 
axils. Primary pinne oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; secondary 
about the same shape, pinnate below, pinnatifid at the tips. 
Pinnules about 4in. long, ovate-lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid ; 
ultimate segments or lobes very narrow, acute. Sori very 
numerous, placed at the tip of a short lateral veinlet on the 
lobes of the pinnules. Indusium broadly ovate or almost 
orbicular, membranous, jagged, attached to the tip of the 
vein under the sorus, its sides quite free—Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 158, 
t. o1B ;, Garden Ferns, t. 51; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Ze ioe 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 358; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 91; Thoms. N.Z. 
Ferns, 49; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 74, t. 18, f. 2. D. hispida, Heward 
MSS. ex Hook. Sp. Ful. i. 158. Acrophorus hispidus, Moore, Indea’. 
Fu. Leptolepia nove-zealandize, Metten. ex Kuhn. 
NorrH AnD SoutH IsntANDS: In woods from the Bay of Islands south- 
wards to Foveaux Strait, but often local. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
A very handsome and distinct species, with an unusually finely cut frond. 
It has been referred by turns to the genera (or divisions of Daraliia) Lew- 
costegia, Microlepia, and Acrophorus, and has been made the type of a new 
genus (Leptolepia) by Mettenius. 
