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954 brown, smooth, densely pilose on both surfaces with soft brownish hairs. Primary pinnæ 4–10 in. long, l½–2½ in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate or almost caudate; secondary ¾–1½in. long, ¼–½ in. broad, linear or linear-oblong, pinnatifid or pinnate at the very base. Segments rather close, falcate, acute; the barren ones larger and broader, almost flat, acutely coarsely toothed; fertile smaller, contracted, concave, obtusely pinnatifid. Sori very numerous, covering the whole under-surface of the frond, small, 3–6 to each segment or 1 to each lobule.—''Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 68, t. 23b; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 461; Field, N.Z. Ferns, 51, t. 10, f. 5, and'' t. 25, f. 1. D. antarctica. ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' ii. 10; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 351; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 31 (not of Labill.''). D. intermedia. ''Col. ex Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil.'' 461. D. Sparrmanniana, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xii. (1880) 364. D. microcarpa, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' XX. (1888) 214.

3. D. lanata, ''Col. in Tasmanian Journ. Nat. Sci.'' (1845) 21.—Candex usually long, prostrate and rooting, as thick as the wrist; more rarely short, stout, erect, and attaining a height of 3–6 ft. Fronds few, 3–6 ft. long, 1–3 ft. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2–3-pinnate, thick and coriaceous but hardly rigid, yellowish-green above, paler beneath. Stipes from half as long to as long as the frond, pale, smooth, clothed at the base with long purplish-brown or yellowish-brown fibrillose scales, when young more or less covered (together with the rhachis and costæ) with soft woolly deciduous hairs, almost glabrous when mature. Primary pinnæ 6–12 in. long, 2–4 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; secondary 1–3 in. long, ⅓–⅔ in. broad, pinnate or pinnatifid. Segments or pinnules rather closely set, slightly falcate; barren oblong or ovate, obtusely or acutely toothed or lobulate; fertile smaller and narrower, deeply pinnatifid. Sori copious, 6–12 to a segment or 1 to each lobule.—''Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 69, t. 23c; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' ii. 10; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 351; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. 461; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns, 31; Field, N.Z. Ferns,'' 53, t. 11, f. 1a, 1b, 1c. D. lævis, ''Ileward ex Hook. Sp. Fil.'' i. 69.


 * Hilly forests from Mongonui to Cook Strait, not common. : Nelson—Massacre Bay, Travers; Pakawau, Kingsley! Westland—Okaiito, A. Hamilton! Canterbury—Banks Peninsula, Armstrong. Sea-level to 2000 ft.