of some Neiv Zealand Ferns. 
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fourteen inches; breadth at base, nine inches; very remote 
from each other on caudcx ; 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, crcnate, and lobed : segments and lobes , 
bi. tri. and quadri-fid, acute and obtuse. Sort, 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. Scales , 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. 
llab. 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, 
Ray of Plenty, E. Coast; Jan., 1842. 
Ohs. This climbing Fern, by far the largest yet detected in 
New Zealand, (some fronds measuring, including stipe, near 
three feet in length) appeared to be 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. 
(>. A. PULC1IERR1MUM, n. sp. Plant, well fronded, tall, 
somewhat squarrosc, flaccid, terrestrial. Frond , lanceolate, 
bipinnate, sub-membranaceous, villous underneath, 24— 80 
inches. Pinnules ; primaries, linear-lanceolate, acute, mu- 
cronate, petiolate, alternate, remote, braehiate; 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- 
