1942 OLVI. FILICES. [Trichomanes. 



diameter, unequally palmatifid, the deeper lobes reaching below the middle, all 

 obtuse or emarginate. Son terminal. Indusium with an oblong tube aiinost 

 entirely imbedded in the margin, with a very short slightly spreading boraer. 

 Receptacle included or shortly exserted.— Bail. Ql. Ferns, 60 ; Bail. Mtno. i^ erns 

 Ql. 22. 

 Hab.: On rooks and logs in damp scrubs in both North and South localities. _ 

 Also in the Mascarene lelands, the Malayan Archipelago, East tropical Asia and the South 

 Pacific Islands. 



7 T. digitatum (finger-like), Swartz; Hook. Spec; Filie. i. 119 ; Syn. Filic. 

 76 • Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 702. Ehizome filiform. Fronds on a rather long 

 capillary stipes, i to iin. long, deeply and unequally divided into 8 to 6 broadly 

 linear obtuse entire or notched lobes, bordered by a few small teeth. Indusia 

 broader than in most species, but imbedded in the apex of the lobes, with a very 

 short open entire bordsr.— T. lanceum, Bory ; Hook, and Grev. le. Filic. t. 33 ; 

 T. calvescens, V. de Bosch in Hook, a-nd Bak. Syn. Filic. 77 ; 8w.; Bedd. Ferns 

 Brit. Ind. PI. 301. 



Hab.: Found in southern localities with T. parvulum. 



Spread over the Maacarene Islands, the Malayan Archipelago and the Pacific Islands. 



8. T. cuspidatum (pointed), WiUd.; Spec. PL; Hook, et Baker, Syn. Filic. 

 73. ' Fronds distinctly but very shortly stalked, about ^in. broad, the outer edge 

 rounded and more or less lobed, the base truncate or more or less cuneate ; 

 spurious veins distinct. Indusia 1 to 6, the tube sunk in the frond, the mouth 

 dilated, but scarcely 2-lipped. — Syn. Filic, I.e. 



Hab.: On the Daintree River.— P«ntz7ce, F. v. M. Sou. Sei. Kee. 1883. 



Also in Asia and Africa. 



I have not seen Queensland specimens of this species. 



9. T. Kurzii (after S. Kurz), Bedd., Ferns of Brit. Ind. PL 286. Ehizome 

 filiform, more or less fcomentose. Fronds with stipites scarcely exceeding Jin. 

 long, simply pinnately lobed ; base of stipes scaly-hairy ; lobes of frond 

 narrow-linear, obtuse or almost acute, with costules but no lateral veins. 

 Indusium sunk in the end of the lobe, mouth slightly lipped. Receptacle short. 

 —Bail. Bot. Bull. iv. 19; Litho. Ferns Ql. 22. 



Hab.: Daintree Eiver, C. J. Wild. 



The Australian plant only differs from the above in the greater regularity of the lobing of the 

 fronds, which resembles a minute pinnate leaf. 



10. T. minutum (very small), Blume, Filic. Javan.; Spec. Filic. 1, 118. 

 Rhizome filiform, creeping. Fronds densely matted on long slender stipites, the 

 segments much cut or divided ; but seems only to differ from T. proliferum in its 

 much smaller size.— 3rd Suppl. Syn. Ql. Fl. 88 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 23. 



Hab.: On wet rocks, Whelanian Pools, Bellenden-Ker. 



11. T. proliferum (proliferous), Blume, Filic. Javan.; Spec. Filic. 1. 118, t. 

 39. Rhizome creeping, densely matted. Fronds on long stipites, forked or 

 branched and entangled, 2 or more inches long, segments deeply palmate or 

 digitately divided into linear obtuse lobes. Indusium sub-cylindrical, mouth 

 obscurely 2-lipped.— 3rd Suppl. Syn. Ql. Fl. 88 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 23. 



Hab.: Whelanian Pools, on damp rooks. 



12. T. Wildii (after C. J. Wild), Bail. Bot. Bull. iv. 19. Rhizome slender, 

 tomentose, forming dense masses on bark. Frond including stipes about lin. 

 high, pinnate, with pinnatifid pinnae, stipes flattened as in T. Barnardiana, with 

 a few dark hairs at the very base. Pinnas few, distant, with 3 or 4 linear lobes. 



