CHEILANTIIES. 83 



Lobb, from Java and Sincapore : and our figure above quoted will give a 

 better idea of the plant than whole pages of description can do. 



11. Ch. Preissiana, Kze. ; " frond coriaceous glabrous 

 short-oblong bipinnato-pinnatifid or tripinnate, pinnic trian- 

 gular-oblong inleiior ones ascending remote, pinnules or la- 

 ciniaB from a cuneate base ovate (in young cultivated fronds 

 trapezio-ovate) rather obtuse incised or pinnatifid, sori sub- 

 continuous, involucres at length inciso-laciniate, rachises 

 flexuose and as well as the longish stipes purple-cbeneous 

 paleaceo-villous, rhizoma short horizontal fusco-paleaccous." 

 Kimze, in PI. Preiss. ii. p. 112. 



Hal). Rocky places, York district, Swan River, Herb. Preiss. n. 1308. 

 Island of Bouron, LahiUardierp. New Zealand, Lesson. — " Antea," says 

 Kunze, /. c, " banc plantam Cheilanthis ambigua, Rich. (Voy. de I'Astrol. 

 Bot. i. p. 83) credidi ; sed nunc filicem eandeni Lessouianain, quam ex 

 aniicaj manu Merattii acceperam, a Richardo nejjlectam, et Cli.ambiguam 

 vix veraui generis speciem esse vero similius mihi videtur. Hanc nondiim 

 vidi. Nostra babitu Ch. temiifolue, Sw., baud absiniilis ; differt rachibus 

 pilosis, stipite longiori et suris conlinuis.'' Kze. I. c. — I regret to say that 

 rich as is my herbarium in Swan River Ferns, and in those from New Zea- 

 land, I do not find any that I can satisfactorily refer to Kunze's Ch. Preis- 

 siana. The Cheilanthes ambifjua, Rich., I have bad reason to suppose might 

 be possibly Hi/polepis ieindfolia, Bernbardi, and of this work, or else a Po- 

 li/podium with the habit of Hypolepis (Pol. viscosum, Spreng. — P. rugu- 

 losum, Br. P). The comparisons drawn by Kunze make it more difficult 

 to comprehend the species in question. 



12. Ch. Sieberi, Kze. ; caudex creeping setaceo-paleace- 

 ous, stipites 2 — 6 inches long and as well as the rachises 

 ebeneous, fronds quite glabrous subcoriaceous linear-oblong 

 erect rigid bi-tripinnate, primary ones short pointing upwards 

 lower ones petiolale subtriangular acuminate, pinimles ob- 

 long decnrrent lower ones inciso-pinnatifid upper ones entire 

 or sinuated the margins much recurved especially when dry, 

 sori punctiform and semiorbicular or more or less combined 

 and continuous, the edge pale and membranaceous toothed. 

 (Tab. XCVII. B.) Ku»ze, Ind. Sem. Horl. Lips. an. 1839, 

 et in Plant. Preiss. ii. p. 112. Ch. tenuifolia, Sieb. Syn. Fit. 

 w. 116. Fl. Mixt.n. 250. Link, Fit. Sp. Uort. Berol. p. 

 64, (excl. syn.) 



Hab. N. Holland ; Sydney, Sieber, Fraser. Subtropical interior, Cul. 

 Mitchell. Endeavour River, Allan Cunningham. Swan River, Drum- 

 mond, Preiss. — New Zealand, nortbern island, Mr. Colenso, J. D. Hooker, 

 Dr. Logan. Middle island, Akaroa, Raoul. Houraki Gulf, Dr. Lyall. — 

 I retain this, with much hesitation, as a species distinct from Ch. tenuifo- 

 lia : true indeed there are some specimens which in the narrow fronds and 

 erect rigid habit are much at variance with the ordinary form of tenuifolia; 



