XXXIII. HYI'OLEPIS. 
Mexico, aud other parts of South America. Fronds ovate-lanceolate, tripinnatc, one foot long, with copious soft 
haii'-like scales ; pinnules oblong ; segments small, roundish ovate, cuneate at the base, crenate, reflexed, and 
concave. Sori linear, consisting of a single row of spore-cases, partly concealed in the axis of the broadly reflexed 
margin of each segment ; indusium linear, continuous. Fronds terminal, adherent to a creeping rhizome. 
16. C. ELEGANS, Besvaiix (C. lexdigeiia, of gardens ). — An exquisitely beautiful evergreen stove Fern, a 
native of Chili, Mexico, the Peruvian Andes, and other parts of South America. Fronds lanceolate tripinnate, 
one foot long, clothed with copious brownish chaffy scales ; pinnules oblong-linear ; segments very small, 
ohovate, revolute and concave. Sori consisting of two or three spore-cases on each segment, partly concealed 
by the reflexed margin. Stipes, rachis, midrib of pinnae, and pinnules, densely covered with brown fringed 
scales. Fronds terminal, adherent to a short creeping rhizome. 
17. C. sPECTABiLis, Kaulfim (C. brasiliensis, Raddi ; Hypolepis, Hooker ). — A straggling-growing ever- 
green stove Fern, native of Brazil. Fronds slender, glabrous, oblong-acuminate, broad at the base, tripinnate, 
three to four feet long, light green ; pinnae linear-acuminate ; pinnules oblong-linear ; segments oblong-obtuse, 
slightly crenate, adnatc and decurrent throughout the whole frond. Stipes and rachis ebeneous, glossy, 
terminal, adherent to an erect fasciculate rhizome. Sori distinct, subsequently confluent. 
18. C. radiata. /. (Adtaxtum, Linnesus ; Hypolepis, ifbo/i;er). — A delicate and exceedingly beautiful 
evergreen species, native of the "West Indies and tropical America. Fronds glabrous, one foot high, digitate ; 
branches linear, pinnate, radiating; segments oblong-obtuse, subimbricate, petiolate, articulate at the base, 
auriculate, with a crenate margin. Sori distinct, often crowded throughout the frond ; indusium reniform. 
Eachis and stipes ebeneous ; terminal, adherent to an erect fasciculate rhizome. 
19. C. PTEROIUES, Swartz (Cassebebra, Fresl; Adiantum, Linneeus ; Pteris orbiculata, Houttgn ). — An 
ornamental evergreen warm greenhouse Fern, from the Cape of Good Hope. Fronds somewhat triangular, 
glabrous, one to one and a half foot long, bipinnate, light green ; pinnules ovate-elliptical, petiolate, round at the 
apex, slightly cordate at the base, and crenulate on the margin. Sori marginal. Indusium membranous, scale- 
like, contiguous. Stipes and rachis shining, especially w'hen dry. Fronds adherent to a somewhat creeping 
rhizome. The only cultivated frond of this plant we have seen, was communicated by G. Herman, Esq., of Hull. 
XXXIII. HYPOLEPIS, Bernhardi. 
Sori round, terminal, marginal, partly concealed by a reflexed indusioid crenule, and situate oppo- 
site the sinus of the segments. Veins forked or pinnate ; venules direct, free, the lower exterior one 
sporangiferous. Fro7ids from two to six or twelve feet high, bi-tri-pinnate, segments crenulated, 
smooth, or covered with glandulose hairs. — Name derived from /lypo, under, aud a scale; in 
allusion to the sori being placed under scale-like reflexed crenules. 
This genus, formerly placed near Cheilanthes, among the Pteridecs, was 
removed by Mr. J. Smith to the Polypodiece, and we had adopted Mi'. 
Smith’s view of its affinities. It appears to us, however, on a reconsidera- 
tion of the matter, that the plants which led Mr. Smith to this opinion, 
though analogous in habit to the genuine species of Plypolepis, cannot pro- 
perly be associated with them, no trace of an indusium being present ; and 
the other characters of the plants being altogether those of Polypodium. 
We have, consequently, referred back to Polypodium the Hypolepis 7-ugu- 
losa (J. Smith), and retain Hypolepis itself among the Pteridece, where it 
was oi'iginally stationed. Fig. 35 represents a pinnule of Hypolepis dick- 
sotiioides (nat. size). 
1. II. DiCKSONioiDES,ifoc4'er(H. REPENS, of gardgj/s, not of Presl ; Cheilanthes, 
Mndliclier ; Hypolepis Endlicheriana, Presf ;• Dicksonia uavallioides, 
— according to Kitnze). — A large coarse-growing evergreen greenhouse Fern, native 
of Norfolk Island. Fronds triangularly elongate, from three to six, or even twelve 
feet high, covered with glandulous hairs ; decompound, three or four times pinnate ; 
pinnules lanceolate-acuminate, with oblong-linear rather obtuse pinnatifid segments, which are somewhat con- 
vex, the lower pair distant ; margin crenulate. Sori round, terminal, and partly concealed by a reflexed marginal 
crenule. Fronds lateral, adherent to a scaly creeping rhizome. 
2. H. prava, M. and 3 . — A very singular-looking and deformed-growing evergreen warm gi'oenhouse 
or stove Pern, the origin of which is unknown. Fronds triangularly elongate, tripinnate, one to two feet 
long, dull green, and covered throughout with glandulose hairs ; pinnae lanceolate ; pinnules unequal, rugose, 
pinnatifid, with unequal segments, obtusely crenate. Sori very few, thinly scattered throughout the frond, which 
is lateral, adherent to a slender creeping scaly rhizome. Perhaps only a dwarf abnormal state of the former. 
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