Gymnogramme?) 
I. FILXCES. 
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1. G. leptophyila, Desvaux ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 45. Annual; roots fibrous; 
fronds tufted, 1-8 in. high, perfectly glabrous, flaccid, membranous, pale 
green, shining, oblong-lanceolate, 2- or 3-pinuatifid ; outer barren, smaller 
than the inner which are more fertile ; stipes slender, brittle ; pinnules small, 
obovate-cuneate, 2- or 3-fid or lobed, lobes obtuse, decurrent ; veins dicho- 
tomous. Sori simple or confluent, oblong. — Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 136 ; Hook, 
and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 25 ; Grammitis novae- Zelandire, Colenso. 
Northern Island: hills on the east coast, Colenso, Sinclair; summit of Mount 
Wellington {Mrs. Jones'). A very widely diffused fern, found in various parts of all the 
continents and in many of the oceanic islands. 
2. G. rutsefolia, Br. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 45. Ithizome very short, stout, 
ascending, perennial. Fronds tufted, 1-3 in. high, densely glandular and 
villous, rather membranous, linear-oblong, obtuse, pinnate ; stipes brittle, 
rather slender ; pinnules alternate, rather distant, f in. long, obovate or 
obliquely rhomboid or flabellate, cuneate at the base, and tapering into a 
short petiole, variously lobed or pinnatifid, segments cuneate ; veins flabel- 
late, dichotomous. Sori oblong or linear, simple or forked. — Hook. Sp. Fil. 
v. 137 ; Fil. Exot. t. 5. 
Northern Island : Cook’s Straits, on cliffs, very rare, Colenso. A very common 
Australian and Tasmanian plant, also found in the Pyrenees and in Bourbon, but hitherto in 
no other countries. 
G. involnta, Don {Grammitis scolopendrina, Bory), is stated by Bory to he a native 
of New Zealand, but erroneously ; in the Flora of New Zealand I had supposed it to be the 
same with Polypodium austral e {G. australis). 
24. NOTHOCHL^iNA, Br. 
Rhizome short, or long and creeping, scaly. — Fronds 2- or 3 -pinnate, 
usually small, stiff, erect. Pinnae small. Sori marginal, rounded, oblong or 
linear, confluent, often partially covered by the recurved margin of the frond, 
veins simple or forked. Involucre 0. 
A considerable genus of tropical and temperate ferns, very closely resembling Cheilanlhes, 
but with no true involucre. 
1. BT. distans, Br. ;—Fl. N. Z. ii. 45. Rhizome very short, stout, 
suberect or prostrate, scaly; roots matted. Fronds tufted, erect, rigid, 4-10 
in. high, coriaceous, covered with subulate, ferruginous, piliferous scales 
below, hirsute above, linear-oblong, obtuse, 2-pinnate; stipes stout, dark 
red-brown, shining ; primary divisions stipitate, opposite, 1 in. long, 
erecto-patent, deltoid, ovate, the lo wer distant ; pinnules in few pairs, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, lower pinnatifid at the base, margins recurved. Sori con- 
tinuous. — Hook. Sp. Fil. vi. 114, Ic. PI. t. 980; Labill. Sert. Nov. Caled. 
t. 8. 
Northern Island: common on basaltic rocks, Colenso, etc. A native of Australia, 
Tasmania, and New Caledonia. 
25. TODEA, Willdenow. 
Rhizome very stout, erect. — Fronds tufted at the top of the rhizome, large, 
2-pinnate, very coriaceous. Veins simple or forked. Sori on the under- 
