Todea. | FILICES. 1025 
2. T. hymenophylloides, A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 97, t. 16.— 
Rhizome stout, erect, often produced into a short thick caudex. 
Stipes 6-12in. long, slender, wiry, erect, brownish-green, smooth 
and glabrous or more or less clothed with floccose tomentum. 
Fronds forming a crown at the top of the rhizome, 1-24 ft. long, 
6-12 in. broad, ovate-deltoid to lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate, trun- 
cate at the base, very thin and membranous, pellucid, dark-green, 
5-pinnatifid ; rhachis and cost more or less clothed with reddish- 
brown floccose hairs or nearly glabrous. Primary pinne rather 
close, 5-6 in. long, 3-14 in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, the lower ones not gradually reduced in size and becom- 
ing very small. Pinnules close-set,$—3in. long, about +1n. broad, 
linear-oblong, deeply pinnatifid. Segments linear, erecto-patent, 
acute, entire or forked or sometimes trifid. Sporangia on the mid- 
rib of the segments, usually confined to the lower half.—Hook. 
Gen. Ferns. t. 468; Garden Ferns, t. 54; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Ful. 
497; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns,93; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 148, t. 4, f. 38. 
T. pellucida, Hook. and Grev. in Bot. Misc. iii. 232; Hook. Ic. 
Plant. t.8. T. marginata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix. (1897) 
419. Leptopteris hymenophylloides, Presi; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
il. 48; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 384. 
NortH anpD SourH Isuanps, Stewart Is~tanp: From the North Cape 
southwards, not uncommon in forest districts. Sea-level to 3000 ft. 
Confined to New Zealand. A state with the pinne rather more closely 
placed, and with the lower ones more or less reduced in size, approaches 7’. 
superba, and is often distinguished as var. intermedia by fern-collectors. 
3. T. superba, Col. in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Scr. (1845) 28.— 
Rhizome stout, forming a thick erect caudex 1-3 ft. high, coated 
with densely matted fibrous rootlets. Stipes 1-4in. long, stout, 
erect, more or less densely tomentose. Fronds forming a hand- 
some spreading crown at the top of the rhizome, 14-4 ft. long, 
6-10in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, very gradually narrowed to 
the base, dark-green, thin and membranous, pellucid, 3-pinnatifid ; 
rhachis stout, densely woolly-tomentose, as are the secondary 
rhachises. Primary pinne very numerous, close-set, the longest 
ones about the middle of the frond, 3-6in. long, $—#in. broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate; the lower ones gradually 
diminishing in size, the lowermost minute. Pinnules very close, 
much overlapping, +-41in. long, linear-oblong, pinnatifid almost to 
the base. Segments narrow-linear, simple or forked. Sporangia 
much as in 7’. hymenophylloides.—Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 428 ; 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 94; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 149, t. 21, f. 4. Lepto- 
pteris superba, Hook. Ic. Plant.t.910; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 48 ; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 384. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLANDs, StEWART IsLanD: In dense moist forests from 
Te Aroha and Pirongia southwards, not uncommon, except in Marlborough, 
Canterbury, and the north of Otago, where it is rare and local. Crape-fern ; 
Prince of Wales’s Feather. Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
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