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A D E N O P H O R U S H YME N O P H Y L L O ID E S .
(A. MINUTUS in T a b u l a m . )
FIL IC E S .—G y r a t æ . Br. P o l y p o d i a c e æ . K a u lf. F i l i c e s veræ. Willd.
G e n . C i i a r . A D E N O P H O R U S , Gauclich. «Sbrì subrotundi, solitarii, subterininales, apici
venæ in receptaculum dilatato, irrcgulariter bilobo insidentes. Capsula glandulis stipitatis
interraixtæ. Indusium nullum. Frondes utrinque glandulosoe. Gaudich.
A d e n o p h o r u s hymenophylloides; frondibus oblongis seu lineari-oblongis bipinnatis, laciniis obovatis
decurrentibus, stipite gracillimo filiformi immarginato.
Adenophorus minutus. Gaudich. in Freycm.Voy. Bot. v . l . p . 3 6 5 . t. S . f 3 . (et Tab. nostr. 176.)
Polypodium hymenophylloides. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p . 118.
H a b . In O W a h u . Chamìsso.
R a d ix fasciculato-fibrosa [Gaudich.).
Caudex cæspitosas, paleis minutis lanceolato-subulatis ferrugineis tectus, fide Ka u lfu ssii.
Stip e s erectus, gracillimus, filiformis, nigricans, immarginatus v ix unciam longus, liic illic setoso-squamulosus.
F ro n s digitalis, oblongo-lanceolata v e l lineari-oblonga, bipinnata; p in n is brevibus approximatis oblongis obtusis.
P in n u læ seu laciniæ semper obovatæ, integerrimoe, coriaceo-membranaceoe, utrinque setis vcl squamulis oblon
g is clavatisque adspersis tectæ. R a ch is etiam squamosa, piano-dilatata.
F m c tifc a tio u t in duabus speciebus jamdudum descriptis.
Fig . 1. Pinna, f. 2 . Pinnula seu lacinia, f. 3. Capsuloe cum glandulis clavatis pedicellatis. f. 4 . Squamuloe
frondis. f. 5. Semina:— magn. auct.
This species appears very d istinct from the two figured and described at Tab. 174 & 175 ; and still
more so from th e A . tripinnatifidus o f Gaudicliaud, o f which we have specimens gathered by
Mr. Macrae, through the liberality o f the Horticultural Society, and which is th e tallest and largest
o f the genus ; well figured in the botanical part o f F reycinet’s Vo y a g e, t. 8. f. 1.
As in the genus Hymenophyllum and Trichomanes, it is often difficult iu the present one to say
whether th e fronds should be called bipinnate or bipinnatifid, the rachis b e in g flat and dilated, and
o f th e same substance as the pinnæ or laciniæ themselves ; while th e se latter are so distinct and
remote as to appear lik e true leaflets. In all the species, the colour, in the dried state at least,
borders upon brown.
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