Dryopterrs. | FILICES. 35 
Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 83; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) LY, +t. 20,5. 2 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1004. Aspidium velutinum A. Rich. FI. 
“Nouv. Zel. (1832) 70; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 222; Raoul Choix 
(1846) 38. 
NorTH AND SoutH Istanps: Dry woods from the North Cape to Otago, but rather 
local in the South Island. Sea-level to 1000 ft. 
Allied to N. decomposita, 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 O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. ii (1891) 813.—Rhizome short. 
Stipes 1-2 ft. long or more, firm, erect, straw-coloured, sightly 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 9-12in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, the upper gradually smaller and narrower; secondary pinnae lanceo- 
late, deeply pinnatifid or again pinnate. Pinnules }-1in. 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, Fil. (1873) 284: Oheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1004. Cheilanthes setigera Blume Enum. (1828) 138. 
Hypolepis setigera Hook. Sp. Fil. ii (1858) 62. Nephrodium tenericaule 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv (1863) 142, t. 269; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx 
(1888) 178. 
KERMADEC ISLANDS: 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, 
India, China, and Japan. £ 
6, D punetata C. Christen. Ind. Fil. (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 
5-3 ft. long, 3-18 in. broad, ovate-deltoid to lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate, 
rather membranous, glandular-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 lanceolate, 
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 and covering the whole under-surface.—Polypodium punctatum 
Thunb. Fl: 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. 
Ferns (1890) 136, t. 15, £. 3; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1008. 
P. rugulosum Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. 11 (1806) 92, t. 241; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
ii (1855) 41; Hook. Sp. Fil. iv (1862) 272. P. viscidum Roxb. in Beats. 
St. Helena (1816) 319. P. viscidum Col. im Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci. ii (1846) 
164. P.rufobarbatum Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 347. Nephrodium 
punctatum Diels in Pflanzenf. Teil 1, abt. 4 (1902) 177. 
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