10 FILICES. [Hymenophyllum. 
Nov. Zel. i (1855) 15; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 355; Hook. and Bak. Syn. 
Fil. (1873) 61; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 42; Meld N.Z. Ferns (1890) 
62, t.17,f.4; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 935. Sphaerocionum glandu- 
liferum Presl Enim. (1849) 23, t. 12. 
Norra AND SourH Isnanps, CHatHaM Istanns: Moist forests from Hokianga 
southwards, not uncommon. Sea-level to 3000 ft. 
A distinct and beautiful species, easily recognized by the reddish hairs on the stipes, 
rhachis, and costae, and by the dark colour of the frond. It is confined to New Zealand. 
10. H. flabellatum Lab, Pl. Nov. Holl. ii (1806) 101, t. 250.—Densely 
matted, usually clothing the trunks of trees. Rhizomes long, wiry, creeping, 
often much branched and interlaced, more or less clothed with yellow-brown 
woolly hairs. Hronds very variable in size and shape, usually 3-9 in. long, 
but sometimes reduced to less than 1 in., at other times attaining a length 
of 12 in., the smaller specimens generally ovate and erect, the longer ovate- 
lanceolate to lanceolate or linear-oblong and pendulous, pale shining-green 
or yellow-green, membranous, glabrous or sparingly silky along the rhachis 
and sometimes on the margins, 2-3-pinnatifid. Stipes slender, terete, 
wingless, glabrous except a tuft of silky hairs at the base; main rhachis 
winged towards the top, wingless elsewhere, Primary pinnae often close 
and overlapping, short, rhomboidal-ovate or flabellate, acuminate ; 
secondary cuneate at the base, deeply pinnatifid. Ultimate segments 
linear, flat, entire. Sori small, terminal on the segments, usually on the 
lateral ones, slightly immersed at the base. Indusium orbicular or nearly 
so, 2-valved to below the middle; valves usually entire—Hook. Sp. Fil. i 
(1846) 111; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 15; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
355; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 61; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 
705; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 42; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) t. 19, f. 6; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 935. H. nitens R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 159 ; 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 94; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) 236; Raoul 
Chore (1846) 39. 
NortH AND SoutH Isuanps, Stewart IsnanD, CHatHam Is~AnDs, AUCKLAND 
Istanps : Not uncommon in woods throughout, Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
43; Mreld N.Z. Ferns (1890) 63, t. 15, f. 6; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906): 
936. 
