1970 CLVI. FILiCES. [Asplmiufn^ 



several on each pinna, linear when young, often confluent when o^^--^?; J* 

 Prod. 150 ; 8ieb. Fl. Mixt. n. 236; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. n. 145 ; F. v. M. J^ragm. 

 V. 131 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 102. 



Hab.: On rocks near Stanthorpe and other southern localities. 

 Also in New Zealand. 



5 A. paleaceum (scaly). B. Br. Prod. 150; Benth. FL Austr. vii. 746. 

 Ehizome tufted. Fronds decumbent, 6in. to 1ft. long, simply pinnate, sometimes 

 proliferous at the end, the stipes rhachis and often the principal veins scaly- 

 hirsute. PinniB shortly petiolate, ovate ovate-lanceolate or fan-shaped, mostly 

 4 to ^in. long, irregularly denticulate and sometimes obscurely 3-lObed, pro- 

 minently stristt/e with the radiating forked veins more or less joining m a midrib. 

 Sori linear, often long but not reaching the midrib.— Hook. Spec. Filic. in. lb^, 

 t. 199, Syn. Filic. 208 ; F. v. M. Fragm. v. 131 ; Bail. -Litho. Ferns Ql. 103. 



Hab • Broadsound, R. Brown; Frankland Islands, M'Gillivray : YoA Peninsula, W. Taylor .- 

 Eockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Eockhampton, Botvman, O'Shanesy, Thozet ; Maokay. 



0. A. resectum (cut off), 8m.; var. australiense, Bail. 1st Suppl. Syn. QL 

 FL 64. Rhizome shortly creeping. Stipes close together, slender, 4 to llin. 

 long, glossy,' nearly black. Frond pinnate, membranous, 6 td IBin. long, with a. 

 rather long, caudate, serrate apex ; lower pinnse 8 or 4in. long, and about |in. 

 broad at the base, from which they gradually diminish in size until they reach the- 

 tail-hke apex of the frond. Pinnse distinctly petiolulate except at the apex, where 

 the fronds become pinnatifid, subfalcate, and the sterile ones often obtuse, but;, 

 the fertile ones usually with elongated points, superior base, truncate, parallel 

 with the rhachis, never auricled, inferior base for a third or more of their length 

 cut off as it were in a curved line, so that the costule here becomes the margin, 

 the whole of the rest of the pinnaj evenly serrated, veins forked. Sori oblong, 

 occupying the centre of pinna, about an equal distance from the margin as- 

 from costule.— Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 107. 



Hab.: Johnstone Eiver, W. B. Kefford. 



7. A. falcatum (falcate), Lam. ; Hook. Spec. Filic. iii. 160, Syn. Filic. 208 ;. 

 Benth. FL Austr. vii. 746. Rhizome tufted. Fronds from under 1ft. to 3ft. 

 high including the rather long stipes, glabrous or sparingly scaly-hirsute, simply- 

 pinnate. Pinnse shortly petiolate, oblique, lanceolate^ acuminate, serrulate, and. 

 usually more or less distinctly pinnatifid with short broad dentate lobes and 

 sometimes auriculate at the base, IJ to 4in. long, coriaceous, prominently striate,, 

 the veins very oblique diverging from the base and from the midrib. Sori linear, 

 long and nearly reaching the margin, or a few quite short. — R. Br. Prod. 150 ;, 

 F. V. M. Fragm. v. 131 ; A. caudatum, Forst.; Hook. Spec. Filic. iii. 152, Syn.. 

 Filic. 209 ; ^3ail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 104. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller; Eookhampton,. 

 O'Shanesy ; Eockingham Bay, Dallachy, 



Widely spread over tropical Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. — Beddome- 

 Perns S. Ind. t. 141 and 143, figures A. falcatum and A. caudatum from specimens much morfr 

 paleaceous than any Augtralian ones, but all appear to represent one species. — Benth. 



Var. Whittlei. So far as known this form differs only in its smaller size and having the 

 apex of the frond much and deeply laoiniated. 



Hab.: Eockhampton, Bob. Whittle. 



8. A. "Wildii (after C. -J. Wild), Bail. Bat. Bull. iv. 20. Ehizome long„ 

 creeping, slender. Fronds distant or somewhat csespitose, very weak, often 

 flexuose, 7 to Sin. long including the filiform stipes which occupies half its length.. 

 Stipes mahogany-brown, glossy and slightly scaly at the base. Pinfase quite 

 membranous, from, very few to 12, th6 lower ones free, the upper ones forming a 

 pinnatifid apex which i^ sometimes slightly elongated, horizontally approximate,^ 



