Dryopteris. | FILICES. 35 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 83; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 132, t. 20, f. 2; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1004. Aspidium velutinum A. Rich. FI. 
“Nouv. Zel. (1832) 70; A. OCunn. Precur. (1836) n. 222; Raoul Choix 
(1846) 38. 
NortH AND Soutr Istanps: Dry woods from the North Cape to Otago, but rather 
local in the South Island. Sea-level to 1000 ft. 
Allied to N. decom: posita, but easily separated by the more membranous and flaccid 
reddish-brown fronds, densely clothed with a short velvety pubescence. Apparently 
confined to New Zealand. . 
5. D. setigera 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. i (1891) 815.—Rhizome short. 
Stipes 1-2 ft. long or more, firm, erect, straw-coloured, slightly paleaceous 
at the base, smooth and glabrous above. Fronds tufted, 1-3 ft. long, 
9-18in. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pale-green, mem- 
branous, 2—-3-pinnate ; main rhachis stramineous, naked towards the base, 
densely clothed with fibrillose hairs above, as are the secondary rhachises ; 
under-surface of frond and veins hispid with long white spreading needle- 
like hairs. Lower primary pinnae 9-12 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, the upper gradually smaller and narrower; secondary pinnae lanceo- 
late, deeply pinnatifid or again pinnate. Pinnules 4-}in. long, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, deeply lobed or pinnatifid, the margins usually recurved. 
Sori small, copious, 6-10 to a pinnule. Indusium small, soon deciduous.— 
Nephrodium setigerum Hook. and Bak. Syn. Pil. (1873) 284; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1004. Cheilanthes setigera Blume Hnum. (1828) 138. 
Hypolepis setigera Hook. Sp. Fil. 11 (1858) 62. Nephrodium tenericaule 
Hook. Sp. Fu. iv (1863) 142, t. 269; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx 
(1888) 178. 
KerrmaDeEc Istanps: Ravines on the north side of Sunday Island, not uncommon, 
T. F. C.; in forest and near fumaroles, W. R. B. Oliver / 
Abundant throughout Polynesia, and ranging from tropical Australia to Malaya, 
Hee China, and Japan. 
6. _D- punctata C. Christen. i Fal. (1905) 287.—Rhizome long, creeping, 
villous with rufous spreading hairs. Stipes 6-18 in. long, firm, erect, red- 
brown, densely glandular-pubescent and viscous, rough with minute raised 
points. Fronds scattered along the rhizome, very variable in size, from 
1_3 ft. long, 3-18 in. broad, ovate-deltoid to lanceolate- deltoid, acuminate, 
rabher membranous, olandular- pubescent on both surfaces, 3-pinnate ; 
rhachis viscid- pubescent like the stipes. Primary pinnae in rather distant 
pairs, 2-10 in. long or more, 1-6in. broad, narrow-deltoid to lanceclate, 
acuminate ; secondary oblong or linear- oblong, acute or obtuse, deeply 
pinnatifid or again pinnate. Pinnules or segments oblong, crenate or 
angulate-dentate or pinnatifid. Veins free, once or twice forked. Sori 
rather large, orbicular, in 2 rows in each pinnule, close to the margin, often 
copious aad covering the whole under-surface.—Polypodium punctatum 
Thunb. FI: Jap. (1784) 337; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 312; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vii (1872) 764: Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 86 ; Field N.Z. 
nm “2e——————-——_ | “oegenne om = Nie FL. W106). FOOS. 
1806) 92, t. 241; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
2) 272. P. viscidum Roxb. in Beats. 
ryopte "pundh te C,Chr. ol. i Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci. ii (1846) 
: ".Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 347. Nephrodium 
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bt. + “177. 
is RUGOSULA t. 4 (1902) 177 
(Tabill) J. Smith. 
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