966 FILICES. [Hypolepis. 
3-9 in. broad, broadly ovate or deltoid to ovate-lanceolate, pale- 
green when fresh, firm or almost rigid, 4-pinnatifid; rhachis and 
cost more or less clothed with scattered crisped hairs. Primary 
and secondary pinne ovate-lanceoiate, ascending ; tertiary +-Lin. 
long, ovate or oblong, cut down almost to the rhachis into several 
entire or sharply-toothed lobes; under-surface glabrous or slightly 
hairy. Sori numerous, small, roundish, placed under a small 
lobule in the sinuses of the pinnules. Indusium composed of the 
reflexed and almost unaltered tip of the lobule.— Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. u. 23; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 361; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 130; 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 56; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 85, t. 3, £. 2. 
NortH Is~tanp: East Cape district, Bishop Williams; base of Ruapehu, 
H. C. Field! Mount Egmont, Buchanan, H. C. Field, T. F. C.; Ruahine Moun- 
tains, Colenso! Field; Manawatu Gorge, A. Hamilton; Tararua Mountains, 
W. Townson. SovutH Istanp: Not uncommon in mountain districts through- 
out. CAMPBELL IsLAND, ANTIPODES ISLAND, Kirk. Usually from 1500 to 
4000 ft., but descends almost to sea-level in the south of Otago. 
Well distinguished from any of the forms of H. tenwifolia by the finely and 
deeply cut pinnules. 
3. H. distans, Hook. Sp. Ful. ii. 70, t. 95c.—Rhizome long, rigid, 
branched, clothed with red-brown linear scales. Stipes 3—9 in. long, 
slender, flexuous, fragile, red-brown, glossy, naked, minutely muri- 
cate. Fronds 6-15in. long, 3-6in. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, rigid, brownish-green or reddish-brown, 2-pinnate; rhachis 
slender, red-brown, glabrous or nearly so, scabrous like the stipes. 
Primary pinne 2-3in. long, about 4in. broad, opposite or nearly 
so, distant, spreading at right angles, lanceolate; secondary (pin- 
nules) tin. long, sessile, lanceolate, rigid, deeply pinnatifid. Ulti- 
mate segments ovate, spreading, toothed or incised. Sori 2-8 toa 
pinnule, placed in the lower sinuses. Indusium composed of the 
inflexed tip of a lobule, small, membranous.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
il. 23; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 362; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 129; Thoms. 
N.Z. Ferns, 56; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 85, t. 28, f. 6. 
NortH AnD SoutH Is~tanps, CHATHAM Is~ANDsS: From the North Cape to 
the south of Otago, not common, usually at low elevations. 
Small and slender forms of Polypodiwm punctatum are easily mistaken for 
this; but in its usual state it isa smaller and more slender plant, with more 
distant pinne, and the frond is never densely hairy or viscid-pubescent. It is 
confined to New Zealand. 
13. CHEILANTHES, Swartz. 
Rhizome short and tufted, or long and creeping. Fronds 
usually small, erect, 2-3-pinnate; texture subcoriaceous. Veins 
free, forked, not anastomosing. Sori marginal, terminating the 
veins, small, rounded or oblong, at first distinct, afterwards more or 
less confluent. Indusium roundish or oblong, consisting of a more 
