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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



[Filices. 



funde pinnatifidis pinnatisve v. dissectis, segmentis glaberrimis glanduloso-puberulisve ultimis minimis 

 obovato-oblongis basi angustatis sabstipitatis crenato-serratis rarius elliptico-obloBgis integemmis raclnbus 

 et stipite glanduloso-pubescentibus scaberulisque.-A Rich. Mot. p. 82. t. 11. A. Cmm. Prodr. HooL 

 Sp. Fil. 1.93A. P. microphylla, A. Cmm. Prodr. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands : frequent as far south as Akaroa. 



A very distinct and pretty species, easily recognized by its much-divided frond and minute coriaceous pinnules : 

 it is found in New Zealand only.— Rhizome stout, woody, creeping, hairy and often scaly. Stipes very stout erect, 

 often a span or more long, glandular and covered with red-brown hairs. Frond a span to a foot long, broadly 

 ovate or elongated and contracted, tripinnate; ultimate segments 1 line to | inch long, very coriaceous, pale 

 yellow-o-reen, quite glabrous or glandular-pubescent, entire or toothed, generally obovate, stalked, blunt, sometimes 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, and entire, and then auricled at the base. Sort generally surrounding the whole pinnule. 

 RacAis stout, fiexuose, yellow-red, hairy and glandular. 



§ 3. Litobkochia. — Feins more or less anastomosing. 



6 Pteris (Litobrochia) Fespertilionu, Lab.; fronde glaberrima elata ampla bi-tripinnata subtus glau- 

 cescente membranacea, pinnis primariis ovato-lanccolatis, secundariis lineari-lanceolatis acutis saspius sessili- 

 bus rachive adnatis, pinnulis late oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve rarius lanceolatis obtnsis mtegemmis v. 

 obtuse lobatis erenatis pinnatifidisve, venulis furcatis basi plerumque anastomosantibus, costa nexuosa, 

 rachi stipiteque glaberrimis pallidis nitidis antice sulcatis.— Lab. Flor. Nov. IIoll. v. 2. p. 96. t. 245. Br. 

 Prodr. Flor. Antarct. p. 110. P. Brunoniana, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Eoll. A. Cmm. Prodr. P. mon- 

 tana, Col. in Tasm. Phil. Joiirn. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands; not uncommon on the margins of woods, etc. (Cultivated at 



Kew.) 



An Auckland Island, Tasmanian, Norfolk Island, and New Holland plant; also found in the East Indian 

 Islands at the Mauritius, South Africa, and Tristan d'Acunha, in Brazil, Juan Fernandez, and the West Indies.- 

 Fronds perfectly glabrous, tall (2-4 feet), ample, broadly deltoid, membranous, glaucous below, bi-tnp innate ; small 

 specimens are sometimes simply pinnate. Primary pinnce ovate-lanceolate ; secondary linear, sometimes pmnatifid; 

 Lmdes broadly oblong or rounded, quite entire, achate and decurrent, rarely linear ; costa fiexuose; ^forked 

 often joining at the base in the lower pinnules. Stipes and raclm very pale yellowish or brown, channelled m front, 

 shining, often glaucous. 



7 Pteris (Litobrochia) macilenla, A. Eich. ; fronde tenuiter membranacea llaccida glaberrima v. in- 

 ferne sparse puberula elata ampla bi-quadripinnata, pinnis primariis secundariisque longe stipitatis remotis 

 sparsis pinnulis paucis remotis inferioribus stipitatis superioribus adnatis decurrentibus pinnatifidis basi 

 pinnatis, segmentis ovato-oblongis acutis argute grosse inciso-serratis lobatisve, costa flexuosa, venis rarius 

 furcatis 'nunc basi anastomosantibus, soris sinubus latis continuis, stipite rachique pallidis gracilibus.— 

 A. Rich Flor. p. 82. t. 12. A. Cunn. Prodr. 



Hab. Throughout the Northern Island, in dark groves, If Urville, etc. 



One of the most beautiful New Zealand Ferns, found nowhere else, extremely variable in size, from 1 to nearly 

 5 feet high.-Frond broadly deltoid, bi-quadri-pinnate, very delicate, membranous and flaccid, with the pinnae scat- 

 tered along the slender raehis, quite glabrous, or with a few white, soft, short, scattered hairs below Pinnules 

 1-4 inches long, lower stalked, upper adnata, pmnatifid; the lobes oblong, sharp, sharply coarsely toothed towards 

 the tip, or lobed. Son continuous in the hollows, but not extending to the tips of the segments. Stipes and 

 racHs very slender, pale, shining, quite glabrous or sparingly pubescent. 



8. Pteris (Litobrochia) comans, Porst. ; fronde ampla membranacea llaccida bi-tripinnata glaberrima v. 



