68 FILICES. [ Cheilanthes. 
Norre Istanp: Auckland— Mount Maunganui, near Tauranga, Mrs. Heiley! 
Hawke’s Bay—Mohaka, 2. Craig! Petane, A. Hamilton! im various localities, 
Colenso! Wellington—Near Wanganui, H. C. Field. Sourn IstanpD: Canterbury— 
Banks Peninsula, Lyall, Armstrong, T. Kirk! Otago—Mountains near Lake Wakatipu, 
Buchanan ; Lake Wanaka, Mrs. Mason ! Sea-level to 2500 ft. 
Extends northwards through Australia to the Malay Archipelago, India, and 
China. The typical state is easily distinguished from the following species by the 
broad deltoid frond. but intermediates are occasionally seen. 
9. ©. Sieberi Kunze in Pl. Preiss. ii (1847) 112.—Rhizome short, 
stout, creeping, clothed with chestnut-brown scales. Stipes 3-9 1m. long, 
densely tufted, erect, wiry, dark chestnut-brown, polished, glabrous or 
with a few fibrillose scales. Fronds 3-9 in. long, ?-14in. broad, linear- 
oblong or linear, erect, rigid, glabrovs, 2—3-pinnatifid ; rhachis smooth, 
glossy. Primary pinnae 3-15 opposite pairs, ascending, the lower rather 
remote, 4-lin. long, ovate-deltoid. Pinnules oblong, deeply pinnatifid ; 
segments entire or cuneate, margins much recurved when dry. Sori 
roundish or oblong, distinct, or ultimately confluent and continuous round 
the margins of the pinnules. Indusium usually elongated, narrow ; margins 
pale, entire or minutely denticulate-——Hook. Sp. Fil. 11 (1858) 83, t. 97B; 
Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 187; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1883) 58; 
Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 87, t. 21, f. 1; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
967. C. tenuifolia A, Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 83; A. Cunn. Precur. 
(1836) n. 210; Raoul Choix (1846) 38; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 23 
(for the greater part, but not of Swartz). C. tenuifolia var. Sieberi Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 362. C. erecta Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii 
(1896) 619. | | Fer 
NortuH sav™ 
in drv - 
Nps: From the North Cape southwards, not uncommon 
d also found in New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines. 
