1982 CLVI. FILICES. [Polypodium. 



small, not very close, forming a row very near the margin as in *'^® ^^^'j"" 

 Xephrolepu of Aspidium.—B. Br. Prod. 147; Bail. Litlio. Ferns Ql. 14-J ; 

 Arthropteris tenella, J. Sm. in Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. t. 82. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mw.ller, A. Cunningham and others ; Mount 

 Dryander, Fitzalan. 



Also in New Zealand, Norfolk Island and New Caledonia. 



7. P. punctatum (dotted), T/mnb. Fl. Jap. 337 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 764. 

 Frond 1 to 4ft. long on a stipes of 1ft. or more, broad in outline, twice or thrice 

 pinnate as in the section Lastrea of Aspidium. Pinnules oblong, i to l|in. long, 

 membranous or rather rigid when in full fruit, deeply pinnatifid with dentate 

 segments. Veins in each pinnule or segment pinnate with free forked branches. 

 Sori orbicular, in 2 rows on the smaller pinnules or longer lobes. — Hook, and 

 Bak. Syn. Filic. 812 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 143 ; P. rugosulum, Labill. PI. Nov. 

 Holl. ii. 92, t. 241 ; E. Br. Prod. 147 ; Sieb. Syn. Filic. n. 109 ; F. v. M. Fragm. 

 V. 129 ; P. rugulosum, Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 272 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 149 ; 

 Bedd. Ferns S. Ind., t. 170. 



Ilab.: Eookingham Bay, DaWac% ; Daintree River , Fitzalan ; Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, 

 F. V. Mueller. Common in southern localities. 



Extends over the tropical and southern extratropical regions of the Old World, reaching 

 northwards to Japan. Ifc requires some care to distinguish the specimens from those of 

 Hypolepis tenuijolia especially when the fructification is old, but the position of the sori on a 

 nerve at some distance from the margin, is very different from that ot Hypolepis, where it is 

 strictly marginal with the recurved iudusium very distinct when young. — Benth. 



8. P. pallidum (pale). Brack. Fil. U.S. Exped. 18. Rhizome short, slightly 

 creeping. Fronds 2 to 3ft., the stipites also 1 to 2ft., twice pinnate, the larger 

 pinnas 6 to 8in. long. Pinnules lanceolate, 1 to l^in. long on the larger pinnae, 

 very deeply pinnatifid with numerous lanceolate lobes, 1 to 3 lines long, all more 

 or less decurrent, ciliate on the margins as well as the principal veins and rhachis 

 with rigid white hairs or bristles. Veins branched in each lobe but free. Sori 1 

 to 6 to each lobe, small and distinct with few spore-eases. — Aspidium tenericaule, 

 Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 144 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Ceyl. 393 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 

 7S9. 



Hab.: 3-mile scrub near Brisbane ; Nerang and Toowoomba. 



9. P. aspidioides (Aspidium-like), Bail. Syn. Ql. Fl. 714. Shiny Fern. 

 Rhizome horizontal, thin, shortly creeping. Fronds 12 to 18in. long, usually 

 ovate-lanceolate in outline in the small forms, but more triangular-ovate in the 

 larger ones. Stipites slender, sulcate and densely covered at or near the base 

 with dark-brown ovate acuminate scales, bi-tri pinnate, the pinnte and pinnules 

 much elongated at the apex, the upper surface glossy ; rhachis and costules hairy. 

 Veins pinnate, ending beyond the margin in aculeate teeth. Sori medial. — Bail. 

 Litho. Ferns Ql. 145. 



Hab.: Scrubs of the Brisbane Eiver and other southern localities. 



Var. tropica. Fronds less divided, marginal teeth sometimes wanting, the obtuse pinnules 

 only crenulated, the whole frond covered with a soft reddish pubescence. — Bail. Litho. Ferns 

 Ql. 146. 



Hab.: The tropical scrubs. 



10. P. proliferum (proliferous), Fresl ; Hook. Spec. Filic. v. 13, Syn, Filic. 

 315 ; Benth. FL Aiustr. vii. 765. Fronds usually weak and spreading and often 

 proliferous at the end, 1 to 2ft. long when full grown, but some in full fruit much 

 smaller, pinnate. Pinnae lanceolate, 1 to 4in. long, shortly and regularly 

 pinnatifid with obtuse rounded lobes sometimes almost reduced to crenatures, 

 broadly truncate at the base. Veins pinnate to each lobe, the branches or 

 veinlets of adjoining lobes uniting in a vein leading to the sinus as in the section 

 Nephrodium. of Aspidium, Sori in 2 rows to each lobe, sometimes only at the 



