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FLORA OP NEW ZEALAND. 



[Filices. 

 spurious, and Icena 



grooved, setose with soft scale-like hairs. Roots fibrous, densely matted. (Name from vo6 

 ( x Xoivo), a cloak; from the false involucre formed of the margin of the frond.) 



1. Nothotena distant, Br.; frondibus squamoso-hirsutis dense c.spitosis rigidis pinnatis, pnms 

 brevibus distantibus oppositis deltoideis breve stipitatis lobatis pinnatifidisve, pmnuhs oblongrs.-^. Frodr. 

 Lab Sert. Aust. Caled. v. 5. t. 8. Booh. Ie. Plant, t. 980. 



Hab. Northern Island, on exposed basalt rocks : Bay of Islands, East Coast, Cape Kidnapper, etc., 

 Colenso, Sinclair, etc. (Cultivated at Kew.) 



Gen. XXVIII. STENOCHL2ENA, /. 8m. 



Frondes biformes. Sorus superficialis, continuus, paginam totam frondis fertilis contract* obtegens, 

 nudus v. margine frondis tenuiter reenrvo obtectus. Fena simplices v. furcate; venuhs paral lehs, ma 

 ginem pinnaa attingentibus.-Khrzoma alte scandens. Brondes alterna, pinnate, ™**T^ 2£ 

 cum rachi continuo. Hm» brent* stipitate, rachi articulate, steriles serrulate; fertnes contractors 

 lineares v. filiformes. 



A remarkable genus, chiefly of tropical scandent Ferns; the species resemble Lonaria in fructification but 

 have 1 Z involucre, 'several species! and the New Zealand one especially, bear fronds of «J«Wta- 

 on different parts of the same plant. L. MeronorpM climbs lofty trees by means o a stout woody hrsome as 

 thick as the finger, and covered with squarrose chaffy hairs.- W* pendulous 6 mches to 3 fee bug, al e na^ 

 pinnate, not jointed on to the rhizome. Finn., in many pairs, Jointed on the raelus, m young plants and the bwe 

 parts of old ones oblong or rounded, blunt, deeply and coarsely crenate or serrate, 3 hues to an ^^Z 

 branous, rounded at the base, stipitate; upper fronds linear-lanceolate, ^^.«7^r* 

 falcate, 2-3 inches long, *-| inch broad, finely crenulate or serrate, tapered from the base to a Ion ,^ P « ; 

 truncate or cordate, obscurely auricled at the base, shortly stipitate ; lowermost pmme smaller often o b cu 



run el at the base'. Costa stout; veins forked, free, parallel. Stipes rigid, often P^^^J^f^ 

 upper surface. Fertile pinnce on separate fronds, or on the upper part of barren ones, fihform. (Name from ^vo S , 

 narrow and x \aiva, a cloak ; from the narrow, spurious involucre.) 



1 Stenochlama heteromorpha, J. 8m.; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis stipitatis junioribus parvrs mem- 



branaceis oblongis rotundatisve grosse crenato-serratis, senioribus coriaceis e basi truncata cordata subaun- 

 ata elongatolnceolatis gradatim in apicem longe acuminatum angnstatis serrulatrs, pmms fer zhbus 



filiformibus, stipite paleaceo v. glabrato, rhizomate valido alte scandente pale, squares sub ursuto. 



U Sm. L Bool, It. Joum. vA.p. 149. Lomaria filiformis et L. propnqua, A. Cunn Frodr L pm- 



pmelMolia, Nob. in Booh. Lond. Joum. Bot. v. 3. p. 412. Osmunda reptans, Banks el Sol. MSS.- 



Variat pinnulis apice basique proliferis lobatis. 



Hab. Northern and Middle Islands, as far south as Banks' Penmsula. (Cultivated at Kew.) 



Tribe V. $cmzM*M.-Sori arranged in imbricated spihes, or on resupimte divisions of Ue frond. 

 Capsules sessile, striated at the apex {the horizontal ring being terminal). Gen. XaIA., AJ , . 



Gen. XXIX. LYGODIUM, Sw. 

 Indusia biseriata, in spiculas dorso frondis mutatee adnatas imbricata, superne libera. Sporangia 

 quovis indusio solitaria, sessilia, ovoidea, resupinata, reticulata, apice striata, latere inserta.— Brondes 

 glaberrimce, alte scandentes. Pinnse conjugate, divism v. composite. 



A very remarkable genus of climbing Ferns, with very slender wiry stems, found in all tropical countries. 



