Hypolepis. | FILICES. 69 
1-2 ft. high or more, strong, erect, brown or yellow-brown, slightly rough 
with minute points, naked or pubescent, usually scaly towards the base. 
Fronds 1-3 ft. long, 4-2 ft. broad, ovate-oblong to broadly deltoid, pale- 
ereen, membranous or subcoriaceous, 4-pinnatifid ; primary and secondary 
rhachises more or less tomentose with ecrisped hairs, rarely glabrous. 
Primary pinnae 8-20in. long, 4-10 in. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate; secondary and tertiary lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Ulti- 
mate divisions linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, crenate-toothed ; costa and 
sometimes the under-surface more or less pubescent. Sori numerous, rounded, 
placed in the sinuses between the teeth or lobes. Indusium composed of 
the reflexed scale-like tip of a lobule of the frond, sometimes covering the 
sorus when young, often very inconspicuous when old.—Hook. Sp. Ful. 
ii (1858) 60, t. 89c and 904; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 22; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 361; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 129; Benth. FI. 
Austral. vii (1878) 746; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 56; Field N.Z. Perns 
(1890) 84, t. 24, f. 3, and t. 27, £4; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 965. 
H. dicksonioides Hook. Sp. Fil. ii (1858) 61. H. Petrieana Carse in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. 1 (1918) 64. Cheilanthes ambigua A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 
(1832) 84; A. Cunn. Precur, (1836) n, 211; Raoul Choi (1846) 38. 
©. arborescens Swartz Syn, Fil. (1806) 129, t. 336. C. pellucida Col. on 
Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci. ii (1846) 178. Lonchites tenuifolia Forst. f. Prodr. 
(1786) n. 424. 
KerMADEC ISLANDS, NortH AND Souts IsLanps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM 
Istanps: Abundant throughout. Sea-level to 2000 it. 
Also in Norfolk Island, Australia, the Pacific islands, and Java. A most variable 
fern; in habit and general appearance often so close to Phegopteris punctata that the 
suspicion naturally arises that the two species may be forms of one plant, a view which is 
rendered more probable by the fact that the indusium is sometimes so feebly developed 
that the technical distinction separating Hypolepis and the Phegopteris section of Dry- 
opierix is obliterated. Usually. however, Polynodium punctatum can be distinguished by 
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