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a light-brown scarious appearance: ovary large for the plant, ovate obtuse, 
succulent, green, slightly marked above with three sutures: style, 0: stigma 
sessile, trifid, finely penicillate and spreading: anthers (infertile) opposite 
segments, long and linear, almost subulate. 
Hab.—In the forests about Kopua and Norsewood, North Island, 1878- 
1881: flowering in December. Often found in a leafing state on trees and 
logs, but perfect specimens are rarely met within reach. This, however, in 
those parts, is mainly owing to the settlers’ cattle, which seem very fond of 
this plant, apparently preferring it to much other good green food around. 
This is an interesting little species, by far the smallest of all the epiphy- 
tical ones of this genus; and, indeed, the smallest of all our known New 
Zealand ones, save the smaller alpine one (A. linearis), found by me on the 
summits of the Ruahine mountain range ;* and by Dr. Sir Jos. Hooker in 
Auckland and Campbell Islands. This species is so very distinct, that 
(although I have not yet detected a perfect male plant) I have ventured to 
describe it from the female ones. Some leafing states of it remind one at 
first sight of a large species of Luzula. 
3 Class III. Cryprogamma. 
Orver 1. FILICES. 
Genus 22. Ponypoprum, Linn. 
Polypodium (Grammitis) paradoaum, n. sp. 
Plant small, cespitose, suberect, 4—6-fronded, with a compact mass of 
large light-brown scales at base; roots many, long, filiform, rich dark-brown 
and very hairy; fronds thin, submembranaceous, sub-sessile, linear-lanceo- 
late or ligulate, subfalcate, very obtuse at apices, 2-3} inches long, 1-14 
lines broad (broadest part about middle), decreasing very gradually quite to 
base, light-green above, lighter below, villous on both sides with long red- 
dish hairs, margin entire but slightly undulated, ciliated with stout long red 
hairs; midrib black-purple, flexuose, scarcely continued to apex; veins alter- 
nate, rather distant, simple, and only once forked on the inside, not pro 
duced to the edge; sori separate, oblique on inner fork of veins, rather 
nearer the midrib than the margin, rich red-brown, from close to apex dowB- 
wards throughout two-thirds length of the frond, at first linear-oblong after 
wards elliptic, completely hidden by long villous adpressed whitish hairs 
growing from each side of the sori and permanent ; scales, at base, large, 
ovate-acuminate, 1-1} lines long, thin, shining, finely reticulated, chesaut 
brown. 
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* Not, however, “in swamps” (Handbook New Zealand Flora,” p. 284), but on the 
open hill-tops, with Caltha, Shae revoluta and eR —— pummulart- 
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