(aoe a Pe, Pe, re FILICES. [Hymenophylium. 
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14. H. Malingii,Mctien. Abh. Sachs. Ges. Wiss. 7 (1864) 489.—Form) ng 
small patches on the trunks and branches of trees. Rhizome slender, 
creeping, sparsely clothed with reddish-brown hairs. Fronds 2-8 in. long, 
3-1} in. broad, narrow-oblong to linear, erect or pendulous, opaque, rigid, 
reddish-brown or greyish-brown, everywhere most densely covered with 
stellate hairs mixed with very minute close-set clavate papillae, 2-3-pinnatifid. 
Stipes 1-3in. long, very slender, almost filiform, not winged, densely 
tomentose. Pinnae close or distant, 4-2in. long, rarely more, the lower 
ones ovate-rhomboidal, the upper oblong, deeply pinnatifid; secondary 
divisions cuneate or flabellate, deeply pinnatifidly cut. Ultimate segments. 
very narrow-linear, obtuse, almost terete and coriaceous from the dense ° 
coating of tomentum, which entirely conceals the frond proper. Sori 
small, terminating the segments. Indusium hidden by the tomentum, 
orbicular, 2-valved rather more than half-way down; valves denticulate 
at the apex.—Hook. and Bak. Syn. fil. (1873) 66; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 
44; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 67, t. 7, £. 2; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906). 
938; Il. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 235. Trichomanes Malingii Hook. Garden 
Ferns (1862) t. 64; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 357. 
Nortu IsLanp : Summit of Te Aroha Mountain, Adams! 7. F.C. ; Mount Egmont, 
Mrs. Jones, T. F. C.;  Waimarino Plains, 7’. Ff. C., H. Phillips Turner! Ruahine 
Mountains and base of Ruapehu, H. C. Field. Souta Istanp: Nelson—Mountains 
behind Massacre Bay, Maling ; Takaka, Kingsley ; Motueka, Cockayne. Westland— 
Mountains near Greymouth, Hnys/ near Kumara, J. M. Brame! Franz Josef Glacier, 
Cockayne, Haast. Canterbury—Banks Peninsula, 7. H. Potts! Otago—Mount Cargill, 
Pine Hill, Buchanan ! Thomson ! 500-3500 ft. 
A most curious and remarkable little plant, confined to New Zealand. The peculiar 
indumentum of the frond is well worth careful examination. It is usually found on 
trunks of Libocedrus Bidwillit ; but Mr. Phillips Turner has noticed it on Dacrydiwn 
antermedium, and I have seen it on Nothofagus Menziesit. 
-— 15. Hi. Cheesemanii Bak. ex Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. edit. 2 (1873). 
_” 464.—Minute, forming cushions on the branches of trees, or creeping amongst 
/ mosses and hepaticae. Rhizome branched, wide-creeping, smooth and wiry. 
_ Fronds very small, }-1 in. long, simple or forked or digitately 3-5-fid, quite 
glabrous, dark-green, texture firm. Stipes very short, filiform 4-1 in. long. 
Segments about ;4, in. broad, linear-oblong or ligulate, obtuse, with a single 
stout dark-coloured costa in each; margins not usually conspicuously 
thickened, strongly ciliate-dentate ; teeth ascending, dark-brown or blacks 
sometimes caducous. Sori 1-3 to a frond, terminating the segments. 
| Indusium slightly sunk in the frond at the base, orbicular-oblong, dark 
| brownish-black, of a more compact texture than the frond, 2-valved nearly 
to the basg; valves smooth, convex, quite entire, recurved in age—lIe. 
Piant. (187 t. 1132 ; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. viii (1876) 829; Thoms. 
N.Z. Ferns (1882) 36; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 65, t. 5, f. 3;) Cheesem.. 
Man. N.Z. Fi. (1906) 938. f Sa, 
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Var. Armsirongii—Precisely similar in size and habit, but texture firmer, and 
margins strongly thickened.—H. Armstrongii 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x (1878) 
App. 43, t. 214; Bak. Ic. Plant. t. 1614. H. melanocheilos Ool. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xvii (1885) 255. ‘Trichomanes Armstrongii Bak. ex Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. edit. 2, 465.. 
Norte Istanp: Auckland—Mongonui County, H. Carse. Whangaroa, R. W.. 
Rowson! Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk! Whangarei, Coromandel, Thames, Waitakere, 
Hunua, 7. #. C.; Te Aroha Mountain, J. Adams/ Sours Istanp: Nelson—Moko- 
hinui, 7. Kirk! Canterbury—Upper Waimakariri and Arthur’s Pass, Armstrong! Enys tf 
T. Kirk! T. F.C. Westland—Hokitika, 7. Kirk ; Kumara, J. M. Brame! Okarito, 
A. Hamilton! Stewart Istanp : Ruggedy Mountains, 7’. Kirk. Sea-level to 3500 ft.. 
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