NOTHOCHL.ENA. 115 



Caled. p. 5. /. 8. Kze. PL Preiss. ii. p. 110. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Nov. Zeal. ii. p. 47. Hook. Ic. PL t. 980 {or Cent, of Ferns, 

 t. 80). Cheilanthes, Metten. CheiLp. 25 [excL var. profusa ?). 



Hab. Australia; probably general throughout the country; Port Jackson, 

 Brown and others ; Logau River, Bathurst county, Fraser ; Port Stephens, Kin^ ; 

 Western Australia, Drummond ; subtropical N. Holland, /. Stuart, Mitchell; N. 

 Australia, Mueller. New Caledonia, Labillardiere. Isle of Pines, Milne. New 

 Zealand, northern island, Colenso, J. I). Hooker. — A species remarkable for its 

 narrow linear-oblong fronds, hairy above, paleaceous beneath, and the uniform 

 ramification. 



15. N. (?) nud'mscula, Desv. ; "fronds pinnated pubescent 

 on both sides, pinnee pinnatifid, pinnules linear entire lowest 

 ones subincised, involucres extremely narrow (angustissimis)." 

 Desv. Mem. Soc. Linn. vi. p. 221. — Fteris, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. 

 Holl. p. 155. PellcEa?, Hook. Sp. Fil. supra, v. 2. p. 161. 



llab. Tropical N. Holland, /Jro(r«. — Of this little-known plant I possess a solitary 

 named specimen from the late Captain Carraichael, which had been given him by 

 Mr. Brown ; but unfortunately it does not entirely tally with the published charac- 

 ter : so that I thought it better in an early volume of this publication to place 

 it in the P^em-group. under Pellcea, and mention its near affinity with our No- 

 thochlana pilosa {N. hirsuta, Desv.). More copious and more varied forms of 

 this latter I have since received, which rather tend to confirm my view of its 

 proximity to the latter species : nevertheless, this N. hirsuta i have never seen 

 from any part of Australia, common as it is in other countries. Brown's cha- 

 racter accords sufficiently well with the superior portions of the specimen from 

 Carmichael, but the lower portion is clearly tripinnate. 



16. N. glabra, Brack.; "caudex?, stipes slender 6-10 

 inches long glabrous glossy dark-brown with a furrow in 

 front, fronds glabrous on both sides 3-6 inches long triangu- 

 lar-ovate bipinnate or even tripinnate, primary and secondary 

 divisions ovato-oblong and obtuse the ultimate divisions or 

 segments 2-3 lines long and 2 lines broad oblong irregularly 

 cut into obtuse lobes or crenatures, caj)sules in an advanced 

 state projecting beyond the margin of the segments." Brack. 

 FiL U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 21. 



Hab. Fiji islands, Brackenridge. — My solitary specimen, for which I am in- 

 debted to the author, has no fructification upon it, and its general aspect is very 

 much like that of some forms of Cheilanthes tenuifolia. 



17. N. semiglabra, Kze.; "frond subcoriaceous opaque 

 one-coloured elliptical or oblong obtusely acuminated nearly 

 glabrous above beneath on the costee and veins pale lineari- 

 paleaceous pinnato-pinnatitid or bipinnate, pinnae remote 

 short-petiolate patent obliquely ovato oblong obtuse the ul- 

 timate ones confluent, pinnules or segments from a cuneate 



