-jgg FILICES. 



incko-pinnaiifidis vel serratis bad cuneatis de^rrentibus, ladniie 

 lineari-oblongis subfalcatis bi-tridentatis ; sons brevibus mbmargma- 

 libus. 



Asplenium hulbiferum, Forst. ex Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 84; Willd. Spec. PL 5, p. 345; 



A. Rich. Bot. Voy. Astrol. p. 75; A. Cunn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 2, p. 364;, 



Montag. Bot. Astrol. & Zelee (1844), t. 3, f. I. 

 A. laxum, Montag. Bot. Astrol. & Zelee (1844), t. 3, f. J. 



Hab. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand : in moist and* 

 shady forests. 



Stipes 10 to 16 inches in length, smooth, half round and furrowed 

 in front, bearing- narrow chaffy scales near their base, and together with 

 the rhachis of a straw colour. Fronds twice the length of the stipe, 

 smooth and somewhat membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 and bipinnate. Pinnae spreading and subopposite at the base, while 

 towards the apex they are more alternately arranged; the costa proli- 

 ferous on the upper side near the apex, and with short, brown, reticu- 

 lated scales on the under side. Pinnules oblong, acute or obtuse, and 

 serrated or incisely pinnatifid, the base wedge-shaped and decurrent on 

 the costa, the lower and superior one the largest. Segments linear- 

 oblong, somewhat falcaie in form, and bi-tridentate. Sori short, some- 

 what marginal, and quite numerous on the upper half of the frond. 



In the Botany of the Voyage of the Astrolabe & Zelee (1^44), we 

 find the present species figured on the same plate with a plant named 

 A. laxum of R. Brown. If the latter be a correct delineation of Mr. 

 Brown's plant, then we must unite the two species, as A. Richard, in 

 the Botany of the Astrolabe, has already done. The slight difference, 

 in the two figures referred to, consists in the fronds and pinnae of A. 

 laxum terminating in a short and sharp acuminate point, and perhaps 

 in the presence of a greater number of slender paleas on the rhachis, 

 as well as in the absence of the proliferous buds, usually present on 

 A. bulbiferum. 



50. Asplenium strictum 1 , Sp. Nov. (Tab. 23.) 

 A. stipitibus teretibus marginatis; frondibm erectis lineari-lanceolati* 



