02 HVPOLF.PIS. 



on both sides (move copiously beneath) glanduloso-pilose tri- 

 pinnato-pinnatifid less divided at the apex, pinnie subopposite 

 and as well as the primary pinnules ovato-oblong acuminate, 

 secondary ones oblong obtuse pinnatifid, segments shortly ob- 

 long subtruncate at the apex iuciso-serrate, the base above or 

 on both margins soriferous, sori solitary, stipes and rachis fur- 

 rowed above and as well as the creeping caudex reddish- 

 yellow glanduloso-pilose." Kze. — Cheilanthcs dicksonioides, 

 Encll. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 15. Kze. in Schkh. Fil. SuppL 

 i. p. 13, t. 8. Hypolepis P^ndlicheriana, Presl, Tent. Pterid. 

 p. 162, — ^. phyUochlcena ; indusio (spurio) frondoso. Kze. 

 in Linncea, t. 17, p. 275. 



Hab. Norfolk Island, Bauer, (Kunze). — /i. Neilgherries, (A'm»i2<'). — 

 Kunze in the work just quoted gives as synonymes, Endlicher's Cheilan- 

 tlies dicksonioides and Presl's Hypolepis Eiidiicheriana, and in ' Linnaea,' 

 xxiii. p. 243, he adduces Dicksonia davallioides, Br. Prodr. p. 158, (Sitolo- 

 bium, J. Sm.) : but, judging from the figure, for I have never seen an au- 

 thentic specimen of the species, I do not at all see how this plant differs 

 from the New Zealand state of what I have considered a slight variety (13.) 

 of Hifpolepis tenuifolia. At any rate it must be very closely allied to it, and 

 I place it near to that, although its author compares it with H. repens, a 

 species, as far as I know, confined to the New World. In the ' Linnaea' 

 above quoted, too, Kunze gives his C. dicksonioides as a native of N. Hol- 

 land. — Kunze again in the ' Linnaea,' xvii. p. 275, in describing the Ferns 

 of the Neilgherry hills, notices a Cheilanthes (Hypolepis) which he does 

 not distinguish from the dicksonioides except by the (spurious) frondose 

 indusiura. 



4. H. amni(rorachis ; "frond membranaceous piloso-sca- 

 brous ovate acuminate bi- or tri-pinnato-pinnatifid less di- 

 vided at the apex, pinna) petiolate divergent ovato-oblong 

 acuminate the lowest ones opposite, primary pinnules de- 

 current oblong obtuse, secondary ones sinuato-incised the 

 segments nearly entire soriferous on both sides, involucres 

 (spurious) herbaceous, rachises and stipes asperous purple- 

 brown, rhizoma creeping branched squarrose with brown 

 chaffy hairs." Kze. — Cheilanthes amaurorachis, Kze. in Lin- 

 ncea, 1850, p. 242 {natne) and p. 300 (de.scr.) 



Hab. New Holland, Kunze, who compares the species with his Cheilan- 

 thes (Hypolepis) dicksonioides ; but remarks, " minus composita, minor, 

 rachi stipiteque purpurascenti-fuscis, laciniis subinlegerriniis nee inciso- 

 serratis." 



5. H. seiiyera; " frond below tri- above bi-pinnatifid mem- 

 branaceous, the costa and secondary rachises upon the up- 

 per side pubescent, pinnules sessile lanceolate acute deeply 

 pinnatifid confluent towards the apex, segments oblong rather 

 obtuse toothed, sori solitary at the interior margin of a tooth, 



