13(» PELL/EA. 



obsolete, involucre narrow when young involute, mature sori 

 forming a broad band just within the narrow involucre, 

 stipes and rachis stout erect clothed with chafty scales and 

 often spreading hairs. — Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 129. Pteris falcata, 

 Brown, Proch\ JJ- 154. Presl. Hook. Fit. FL N. Zeal. W.j). 24. 

 AUosorus falcatus, Kze. in Linncea, xxxm. p. 219. Platyloma 

 falcatum, J. Sm. in Hook. Gen. Fil. ^. 15 A. {wide)' the tiame 

 of Platyloma Brownii). 



/3. setosa ; stipes and rachis setose with copious spreading 

 ferruginous hairs, pinntE subhirsute, the hairs often arising 

 from little bulbs or tubercles. — Pteris seticaulis. Hook. Ic. 

 Plant. Par. iii. /. 209. Pt. alternifolia, JVall. n. 2182. 



7. nana ; small, pinnse sharply auriculated at the base and 

 strongly mucronate at the point. (Tab. CXI. B.) 



Hal). New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, Brown, Allan Cunningham. 

 (Blue Mountains), R. Gunn, Sieber. Darbin Creek, Dr. Mueller, llaoul Island, 

 Kennada Isles, and Sunday Island, Macgillivray, n. 952, and Milne, n. 03 (Voy. 

 of II. M.S. Herald, 1854, specimens having the pinnse quite like those of P. para- 

 doxa), Auckland, K. Zealand, Northern Island, Sinclair, n. 51. — /3. India, Dindi- 

 gul, and Neilgherries, Madras Presidency, Dr. Wight and G. Gardner. Penang, 

 Lady Dalhousie. — 7. Dry, leafy woods, Brisbane River, Allan Cunningham. — 

 Except the usually taller, but narrower, and more numerously pinnated fronds, 

 with narrower pinnje, and stipes and rachis squamuloso-hirsute, we see no dift'er- 

 tnce between this and the P. paradoxa : and certainly the specimen communi- 

 cated by Mr. Smith to the 'Genera Filicum,' and there figured (tab. 115 A.) 

 under the name of Platyloma Brownii (Pellaea paradoxa), belongs to the present 

 plant, as shown by the form of the pinna;, clothing of the rachis, etc. If I suc- 

 ceeded in showing a very close affinity between the present and preceding species, 

 it will not be more difficult, thanks to copious specimens, in the herbarium and 

 cultivation, to indicate as great a similarity between the present and the follow- 

 ing, Pellcea rotundifolia. 



7. V. rotundifolia ; caudex long creeping, fronds pinnate 

 linear rigid decumbent or suberect, pinnae (30-40) small oval 

 or subrotund rarely oblong-subovate subcordate at the base 

 obtuse or mucronate at the point glabrous, veins obsolete, 

 involucre when young narrow and involute, mature sori 

 forming a broad band never covered with the narrow invo- 

 lucre, stipes and rachis stout clothed with chaffy scales and 

 hairs which are often spreading. — Pteris rotundifolia, Forst. 

 Prodr. n. 420. Sw. Sijn. Fil. p. 102 and 297. Schkuhr, Fil. 

 t. 99. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 422. Hook. Fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal. ii. 

 p. 24. Platyloma, /. Sm. AUosorus rotundifolius, Kze. in 

 Linnaa, xxm. p. 219. 



(3. ohlongifolia ; pinnis cordato-oblongis. Pteris oblongi- 

 folia, Colenso, 3JS. in Herb. Nostr. 



Hab. Northern and middle and southern islands of New Zealand, and in Banks' 



