464 HYMENOPHYLLUM. 



62*. .H. pumilum, C. Moore ; rhizome capillary, wide-creeping ; St. filiform, 



J4 in. ; fr. i-| in. 1., roundish in upper, cuneate in lower half, flahellato- 



bipinnatifid ; divisions ligulate, close, 1-veined, \ lin. br., obscurely denticulate, 



Tipper simple, lower deeply forked or trifid ; surfaces naked ; sori one to a 



' frond, terminal ; inv. deeply cleft with ovate entire Ups. 



Hab. Mount Tomali, New South Wales, C. Moore. 



62*. H. Moorei, Baker ; rhizome capillary, wide-creeping ; st. filiform, naked, 

 J-J in. ; fr. ^ in. 1., rounded in upper, cuneate in lower half, flabellately bipin- 

 natifid ; segm. ligulate, J lin. br., distinctly toothed^ close, 1-veined, upper erecto- 

 patent, simple, lower deeply 2-3-fid ; surfaces naked ; sori 1-3 to a frond, 

 usually free, lateral rarely terminal, immersed at the base ; iwe, 1 lin. deep, the 

 toothed rounded lips exceeding the short cup-shaped tube. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, Q. Moore. 



62*. H. minimum, A. Rich. ; rhizome filiform, wide-creeping ; 'S*. filiform, 

 J-| in. ; fr. oblong-deltoid, ^-| in. 1., with several close spreading distinctly- 

 toothed pinnse, the upper simple, ligulate, the lower often forked ; sori solitary, 

 terminal on the main rachis only ; inv. free, cut about halfway down the valves, 

 toothed. — Foi/. Astrol. t. li.fiff. 2. 



Hab. New Zealand and Auckland Isles. — Differs from all the forms of Timbridgense 

 by its solitary terminal sori. 



62*. H. Cheesemamni, Baker; rhizome filiform, wide-creeping; st. filiform, 

 ■^ in. 1. ; fr. forked or palmately 3-4-fid, J-J in. 1., with ligulate oiliato-dentate 

 one-veined lobes, j-1 lin. br., narrowed at the base, rarely simple ; sori terminal 

 on the lobes ; inv. immersed at the base only, the entire rounded valves much 

 exceeding the very short tube. — HA. Ic. t. 1132. 



Hab. Titiranja range. New Zealand, T. F. Cheesemcm; discovered in 1870. 



63*. H. hhasianvm, Baker; rhizome capillary, wide-creeping; sl.\-'\\m,, 

 winged upwards ; fr. lanceolate, tripinnatifid, 2-3 in. 1. ; pinnce close, deltoid, 

 ascending, cuneate-truncate at base on lower side ; hbes close, ligulate, 1-veined, 

 distinctly toothed, the upper simple, the lower forked ; main rachis winged 

 throughout ; surfaces naked ; sori copious, free, terminal, the ovate toothed lips 

 reaching down nearly to the base. — Leptiocionium flacoidum, V. D, B. Suppl. 

 p. 65. 



Hab. Khasia, Griffith, Eh. jU. & Thomson. 



XVII.— TRICHOMANES. Page 71—08. 



14*. T. emguvm. Baker ; rhizome filiform, wide-creeping ; st. very short ; /*■. 

 J-^ in., linear-oblong, narrowed at the base, blunt, repand, rarely deeply piii- 

 natifid, the edge ciliated with minute stellate bristles ; central vein distinct from 

 hase to apex ; veinlets fine, ascending, usually simple, with a few spurious venules 

 interspersed ; sorus solitary, terminal ; lip rounded, half as long as the immersed 

 cuneate tube. — Hymenophyllum, Bedd. Fern. Brit.^Ind. t. 276. 



Hab. Hills of west side of Indian Peninsula and Ceylon. 



24*. T. assimile, Mett. ; rhizome slender ; st. 1^ in. 1., winged upwards ; fr, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2^ in. 1., 1 in. br., tripinnatifid, proliferous from the stem 

 or rachis ; rachis winged throughout ; lower pinnce ovate-rhomboid, with 



