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Polystichum. FILICES. Foarwn “31% 
Norts Istanp: Tongariro, Dieffenbach ; Mount Egmontf Mrs. Jones, T. F. C. : 
fararua Mountains, Buchanan. Sout Istanp: Not uncoyfmon in alpine districts 
throughout. Stewarr Istanp: Mount Anglem, Cockayné. AucKLAND ISLANDS: 
T. Kirk. 3000-5500 ft. 
A very distinct little species, easily recognized by the stout soft stipes and rhachis 
densely clothed with large pale scales, the narrow frond, and large bladdery indusia. 
A form with a firmer frond and dark-coloured scales on/the stipes is occasionally seen. 
6.2. hispidum J. Sith in Journ. Bot. iv (1841) 195.—Rhizome long, 
stout, creeping, densely clothed with subulate red-brown scales. Stipes 
9-18 in. long, stout, erect, brown, everywhere hispid with long rigid linear 
spreading bristles with a swollen base. Fronds 9-18in. long or more, 
6-12 in. broad, broadly ovate or triangular, acuminate, brownish-green, 
coriaceous, 3-4-pinnate ; primary and secondary rhachises bristly like the 
stipes. Primary pinnae 3-8 in. long, ovate-lanceolate or the lowest deltoid, 
acuminate, the lowest pinnule larger than the others. Secondary pinnae 
oblong-lanceolate, again 1- or 2-pinnate. Pinnules 1-4in. long, narrow- 
lanceolate, acute, deeply and acutely toothed or almost pinnatifid, the teeth 
often pungent. Sori large, copious, one to each of the ultimate segments 
or lobes. Indusium orbicular with an indistinct sinus, flat, brown.—Aspi- 
dium hispidum Swartz Syn. Fil (1806) 56; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 
69; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 221: Raoul Choix (1846) 38. Nephrodium 
hispidum Hook. Sp. Fil. iv (1862) 150; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
378 ; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 286; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 
160; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 83; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 182, t. 3, 
1.3; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1004; Jil. N.Z. FI. ii (1914) t. 245. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLanps, Stewart Istanp, CHatTHam IstANDS: Abundant in 
forests throughout. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
A very distinct species, at once recognized by the finely divided frond and the 
numerous stiff spreading bristles on the stipes and rhachis. It is also found in Victoria, 
where, however, it is rare and local. 
%, BP: adiantiforme J. Smith Hist. Fil. (1875) 220.—Rhizome long, 
stout, creeping, covered with large tawny subulate-lanceolate silky scales. 
Stipes 1-2 ft. long, stout, erect, more or less densely clothed with deciduous 
scales. Fronds scattered along the rhizome,~9-18in. long without the 
stipes, 6-12in. broad, ovate-deltoid, acuminate, very coriaceous, rigid, 
glabrous or the under-surface slightly paleaceous, 3-pinnate; rhachis 
deciduously scaly. Primary pinnae erecto-patent, stipitate, lanceolate or 
lanceolate-deltoid, 2-pinnate; the lowest pair the largest, 4-8in. long, 
2-3 in. broad, the basal secondary pinna on each side of the frond longer 
than the others. Ultimate segments oblong, obtuse or subacute, shortly 
and bluntly lobed or almost entire, not mucronate. Sori copious, in 2 rows 
near the midrib, often covering the whole under-surface. Indusium large, 
orbicular, sometimes with a distinct sinus.—Aspidium capense Willd. Sp. 
Plant. v (1810) 267; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 254; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. vii (1878) 758; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 80; Field N.Z. Ferns 
(1890) 129, t. 6, f. 2; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 1000. Aspidium 
coriaceum Swartz Syn. Fil. (1806) 57; A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. (1832) 71; 
A. Cunn. Precur, (1836) n. 223; Raoul Choix (1846) 38; Hook. Sp. Fil. iv 
(1862) 32; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 376. Aspidium Cunnine- 
hamianum Ool. in Tasm. Jour. Nat. Sct. ii (1846) 166. Polystichum 
coriaceum Schott Gen. Fil. ad t. 9 (1834); Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 
37. Polypodium adiantiforme forst. f. Predr. (1786) n. 449. 
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