Prats 64. 
TRICHOMANES Matter, ooh. 
Mr. Maling’s Trichomanes. 
TricHoMaNes Malingii ; caudex long, slender, filiform ; stipites scattered on the 
caudex, rarely more than an inch long, slender; fronds two to four inches 
long, oblong-lanceolate, tri-quadripinnate, or rather perhaps pinnatifid, 
destitute of any wing or foliaceous portion, consisting of rachis alone; the 
ultimate branches are often forked, and in the fertile fronds almost all 
the branches are soriferous at the apex, and the whole frond is clothed with 
a dense stellated pubescence of a ferruginous colour on one side and a pale 
grey on the other; involucres terminal, subhemispherical, of a thick and 
firm texture, obscurely two-lipped, and with the lips lobed; column scarcely 
exserted, thick, fleshy, fusiform. 
Has. Mr. Maling,* it appears, is the fortunate discoverer of this remarkable 
Hymenophyllaceous Fern on the ranges of Golden Bar, Middle Island, New 
Zealand, and Mr. Brunner, Surveyor General, Middle Island, on the ‘‘ moun- 
tain-range between Blind Bay and Massacre Bay” (possibly the same 
locality). 
This is one of the most distinct of all the kinds of Zrichomanes 
with which I am acquainted; a genus of which the species are 
in general distinguished by the membranous expansion of the 
frond, of so delicate and beautiful a nature as of late years 
greatly to recommend the species for cultivation in our ferneries. 
In the Zrichomanes now under consideration, however, all appear- 
ance of membrane is absent, and the plant seems reduced to that 
portion denominated rachis, —in other words, the continuation of 
the stipes and rachis. Yet it must not be forgotten that we have 
a structure of nearly the same kind in my Zrichomanes Pluma, 
from Borneo, figured in the‘ Century of Ferns,’ t. 97. But there 
the whole texture is conspicuously (for so small a plant) cellular. 
I have no hesitation in placing it in the same genus. Another re- 
* In a letter from my valued correspondent W. T. Luke Travers, Esq., dated 
Christchurch, New Zealand, 6th July, 1861, I received my first specimen of this 
plant, stating that it was obtained by Mr. C. Maling, who found it on the 
“ranges of Golden Bay, Middle Island, New Zealand,” after whom I at once 
proposed to name the species. In a subsequent letter from D. Rough, Esq., 
dated Nelson, New Zealand, 6th November, 1861, to Dr. Hooker, that gentleman 
sends specimens gathered by Mr. Brunner, Surveyor-General, gathered on “the 
mountain-range between Blind Bay and Massacre Bay.” Possibly the same 
range is meant in both cases. 
APRIL lst, 1862. 
