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Hypolepis.]

1. H. tenuifolia, ''Bernh. in Schrad. Neu. Journ. Bot''. ii. 34.—Rhizome long, stout, creeping, densely clothed with red-brown linear scales. Stipes 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, ½–2 ft. broad, ovate-oblong to broadly deltoid, pale-green, membranous or subcoriaceous, 4-pinnatifid; primary and secondary rhachises more or less tomentose with crisped hairs, rarely glabrous. Primary pinnæ 8–20 in. long, 4–10 in. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; secondary and tertiary lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. Ultimate 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. Fil.'' ii. 60, t. 89c and 90a; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' ii. 22; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 361; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 129; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 726; ''Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 56; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 84, t. 24, f. 3, and t. 27, f. 4; H. dicksonioides, Hook. Sp. Fil.'' ii. 61. Cheilanthes ambigua. ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 84; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 211; Raoul. Choix,'' 38. C. arborescens, ''Swartz, Syn. Fil.'' 129, t. 336. C. pellucida, ''Col. in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Sci.'' (1845) 13. Lonchites tenuifolia, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 424.

2. H. millefolium, ''Hook. Sp. Fil''. ii. 68, t. 95b.—Rhizome long, slender, creeping, naked or nearly so. Stipes 3–9 in. long, rigid, erect, yellow-brown, glossy, smooth or slightly scabrous, glabrous or sparingly pilose with crisped hairs. Fronds 6–18 in. long.