12 Glassification and . Description 
crenulately-serrulate, petiolate, opposite, remote, patent, 
slightly unequal at base, upper half largest, margin incras- 
sated, reyolute, 1| — 2f inches long*, 4- — 6 lines wide : termi- 
nal pinnule , very long, acuminate, serrate, 3J—5J inches: 
■ Veins, pinnate, opposite, simple, rarely forked. Sori, linear, 
thick, distichous, confined to upper pinnae, intra-marginal. 
Involucre, vaulted, glossy, slightly wrinkled, membranaceous 
at margin, brown-red, black at base. Rachis, sligfitly mar- 
gined, villous. Stipe, sulcated on upper surface, 4 — 5J 
ioch^fe, somewhat succulent, blackish-green. 
Hah . In ravines and dells among scoriae, on the dry vol- 
canic range of hills near Manukau Bay ; 1842. 
Ohs. In affinity this species of Asplenium approaches 
very near to A. obliquum, Forst., from which, however, it 
may at first sight be known, by its being a much smaller 
plant with narrower pinnae. That species is, moreover, de- 
scribed as possessing pinnules “ acutis basi oblique cuneatis 
obtuse serratis utrinque striatis.” I have never yet detected 
A. obliquum in any of my wanderings, A. Richard con- 
siders it as identical with A . lucidum, Forst. ; yet, A. Cun- 
ningham states, his having met with it “ in dense forests at 
Wangaroa.” — Vide, Comp. Rot. Mag., vol. 2, p. 364. 
§ . PTERiDEiE, Freyc. et Kaulf. 
■ Pteris , L. 
Sporangia apicibus venularum, in receptaculum nerviforme 
frondis marginem ambiens eombinatis imposita, sorum mar- 
ginalem continuum fqrmantia. Indusium margini frondis 
continuum, scariosum, introrsum liberum. Endl . 
13. i\ MONTANA, n. sp. Plant , few frooded, erect, 
glaucous, glabrous, somewhat coriaceous ; terrestrial. 
Frond, lanceolate, bipinnate, 12 — 18 inches. Pinnules; 
■primaries, ovate-triangular, acuminate, obtuse, sub-opposite, 
sessile, very remote ; uppermost pinnatifid, confluent ; ter- 
minal lobes acuminate and sub-caudate : secondaries , 
cuneate-falcate, obtuse, broadest at base, entire, sessile. 
