Trichomanes.] OLVI. FILIOES. 1948 



veinless except the central costa. Indusium almost free on the upper side of the 

 pinnsB some distance from the axil, mouth spreading but scarcely lipped. — Bail 

 Litho. Ferns. Ql. 27. 

 Hab.: Near Cairns, C. J. Wild. 



18. T. pyxidiferum (box-bearing), Linn.; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 124 ; Syn. 

 Bilic. 81 ; BfiUh. Fl. Austr. vii. 703. Fronds 1 to 2in. long, ovate or oblong in 

 outline, pinnate. Pinnules ovate, deeply pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, the lower ones 

 usually distinct, the upper ones connected by a winged rhachis ; lobes few, linear, 

 1-nerved. Indusia occupying nearly the whole of short lateral lobes, often several 

 to each pinnule, oblong, with a broad orifice scarcely 2-lobed. Eeceptacles either 

 very long or scarcely exserted.— Hook, and Grev. Ic. Filic. t. 206 ; Bail. Litho. 

 Ferns Ql. 27. 



Hab : York Peninsula, N. Taylor : Bellenden-Ker Range, Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



Widely spread over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. 



14. T. Filicula (small fern), Bory. Rhizome filiform, clothed with short 

 dark hairs, densely matted. Fronds 1 to Sin. high, pinnatifid, somewhat ovate 

 in outline ; segments linear, sometimes acute. Indusium cylindrical, tapering 

 towards the base, the mouth with two narrow, prominent acute lips. — Bail. 

 Litho. Ferns Ql. 27. 



Hab.: On wet rocks of the rivers of Tropical Queensland. 



15. T. Barnardianum (after G. Barnard), Bail. 8rd Suppl. Syn. Ql. Fl. 

 89. Rhizome filiform, bearing short, stiff, dark-coloured, hair-like scales. Fronds 

 mostly under lin. long, somewhat ovate to nearly palmate in outline, dark-green, 

 glabrous except for a few minute fuscous elongated scales on the rhachis, pinnate 

 with pinnatifid or bipinnatifid pinnae, or the whole frond bi-tripinnatifid ; ultimate 

 segments narrow-linear, obtuse, with entire margins, decurrent at the base, 

 forming wings to the short stipes ; wings ciliate with a fringe of prominent 

 linear dark fuscous hair-like scales ; cells throughout very minute. Indusium 

 rather large for the size of the frond, several towards the apex of the frond, 

 urceolate-eylindric, the mouth spreading. Receptacles 8ften long exserted and 

 falcate. — Bail. Litho. Ferns, Ql. 27. 



Hab.: On wet rooks. Palm Camp, Bellenden-Ker, 4,000ft. 



This pretty little fern closely approaches the smaller forms of T. pyxidiferum, from which it 

 may be easily distinguished by wider fronds, their very minute cell areolation, and ciliated wings 

 of stipes. 



16. T. venosum (veiny), R. Br. Prod. 159 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 702. 

 Rhizome woolly-scaly. Fronds on a filiform stipes, of a very delicate texture, 2 

 to 4in. or rarely longer, pinnate. Pinnules linear or lanceolate, mostly J to lin. 

 long, toothed or with a few short unequal lobes near the base, the veinlets of 

 each pinnule pinnate, with simple or forked branches, the midrib fiexuose. 

 Indusium embedded in a short lobe near the base of the pinnule on the inner side, 

 oblong, with a short spreading entire border. Receptacle usually exserted. — 

 Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 132; Syn. Filic. 82; Hook, and Grev. Ic. Filic. t. 78 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 135 ; F. v. M. Fragm. v. 116 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 23. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



17. T. pallidum (pale), Blume, Filic. Javan. Rhizome creeping, filiform, 

 densely matted, tomentose. Stipes 1 to 2in. long, wiry. Fronds 2 to 4in. long, 

 1 to 2in. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bipinnatifid, just divided down to a 

 narrowly-winged rhachis ; lower pinnse ovate-rhomboidal, divided more than 

 half-way down, and the lobes again slightly cut ; substance firm, glaucous on 

 the under side and more or less clothed with light-brown hairs. Indusium 



