of some New Zealand Ferns . 
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fourteen inches ; breadth at base, nine inches ; very remote 
from each other on caudex ; colour, light green. Pinnules ; 
primaries , ovate or triangular-falcate, acuminate, acute, pe- 
tiolate, alternate, distant ; lowermost sub-opposite ; upper- 
most pinnatifid and decurrent : secondaries , oblong-lanceolate 
somewhat falcate, acute, not crowded, petiolate, sub-opposite ; 
upper ones sessile, crenate, and lobed : segments and lobes , 
bi. tri. and quadri-fid, acute and obtuse. Sori, semi-sphaer- 
oidal, very prominent, on extremities of smaller veins, not 
marginal, pitted, sub-opposite, not crowded. Indusium , 
peltate, corrugated. Capsules , numerous. Petioles and 
Rachis towards apex, margined and scaled. Seales , very 
long, light brown. Stipe , smooth, brittle, channelled, 
scaled, 12- — 14 inches long ; colour, light yellow-brown : 
base of Stipe and Caudex , densely clothed with large scales 
imbricated and adpressed. Caudex , creeping, succulent. 
Hob, On small living trees in the shaded dense and damp 
forests near Ruatahuna, a village in the mountainous district 
in the interior, five days journey S. S. W. from Wakatane, 
Bay of Plenty, E. Coast ; Jan., 1842. 
Obs. This climbing Fern, by far the largest yet detected in 
New Zealand, (some fronds measuring, including stipe, near 
three feet in length) appeared to he very scarce, a few plants 
only being seen. It has been named by the discoverer in 
memory of his much lamented friend, that amiable and inde- 
fatigable botanist, the late Allan Cunningham, Esq. 
6. A. PULCHERRIMUM, o. sp. Plant , well fronded, tall, 
somewhat squarrose, flaccid, terrestrial. Frond, lanceolate, 
bipinnate, sub-membranaceous, villous underneath, 24 — 30 
inches. Pinnules ; primaries , linear-lanceolate, acute, mu- 
cronate, petiolate, alternate, remote, brachiate ; uppermost 
much flaccid ; petiole , channelled and densely scaled : se- 
condaries, trapezio-rhomboid, slightly falcate, cuneate at 
base, acute, mucronate, cut-serrate, petiolate, alternate, re- 
mote, regular ; lowest lobes , bi-tri-serrate and obtuse ; upper- 
