92 PLANTS FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 
tAcipium. BALANSÆ Cornu ex Patouillard in Bull. Soc. Mye. Fr. 1887, 
173. Ignambi; 3500 ft.; on leaves of Agathis sp. and occasionally on the 
young shoots, causing slight hypertrophy. July. 1551. Malaya, Polynesia. 
TAYLARIA POLYMORPHA (Pers) Grev., Flor. Edin, 35. Mont. Canala ; 
3000 ft, June. 1213. Cosmopolitan. 
X. ANISOPLEURA Mont. Syll. Crypt. 204, n. 688. Mont Mou. March. 707. 
Ceylon, Tropical Africa, West Indies, South America. 
TX.1NvoLUTA Kl. ex Cooke in Grevillea, xi. 1883, p. 82. For synonymy 
see Bres., Ann. Mye. v. 1907, pp. 240-241. Mont Canala; 2000 ft. June. 
1212. Ignambi ; 3500 ft. Aug. 1591. 
The specimens are very fine, and being preserved in formalin they have 
retained their natural size and shape, so that the appearance is very different 
from that of dried specimens. 
Probably cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
X. FLABELLIFORMIS (Schw.) Berk. & Curt. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. x. 
(1868) 1869, 381. Ermitage Stream. Jan. 189. Ceylon, Malaya, 
Australia, Tropical Africa. 
HYPOXYLON ANNULATUM (Schw.) Mont. in Gay, Hist. de Chile, vii. 1850, 
449. Ermitage Stream. Jan. 217. Abundant. Malaya, Australia, New 
Zealand, Tropical Africa, South America, West Indies, Southern United 
States. 
* EK RETZSCHMARIA CENOPCS (Fr.) Sace. Syll. 1. 388. Ermitage Stream. 
Very common. Jan. 219. Ceylon, Malaya, Tropical Africa, West Indies, 
South America. 
TDALDISTA VERNICOSA (Schw.) Cos. & De Not. in Comm. Soc. Uritt. It. i. 
pt. 4, 1863, 198. Mont Dore; on dead branches of Casuarina ; 1000 ft. 
April. 685. 
The species differs from /. concentrica in the soft, whitish zones, separated 
by dark lines. Spores 13-15 x 7-9 u. 
Europe, India, West Indies, North America. 
f D. Escuscgorzn (Ehrenb.) Rehm in Ann. Mye. ii. 1904, 175. (D. con- 
centrica var. microspora (Starb.) Theissen; D. vernicosa var. microspora 
Starb.; probably D. cognata Har. & Pat.) Paompai; 100 ft. Sept. 1915. 
Theissen considers this merely as a variety of D. concentrica. The constant 
association of small spores with the conspicuous coppery or purplish incrus- 
tation, however, appears to the author to be a distinction sufficient to merit 
specific rank. The species varies from completely sessile to more or less 
