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/idum C. Muollor. The fronds ;ire ratlier small, roacliJno- about IvS cm. in 

 Icngl-Ji including tlio stipe. Mascarene Island,^, IropicarAsia, New South 



Wales. 



Trichomanes elongatum Cnnn. 



Mt. Mou ; terrestrial ; hioh forest ; 



serpentine; 3800 ft. 496. Sclilechtor's 1479G from the Yalioue Mountains, 

 sub nom. 7\ dentatum, is this species. New Zealand. 



T. FERPvUGiNEnii van den Bosch. Prcsqu'ile Bogota ; frequent in scrubby 

 Spermolepis woods on serpentine ; 1000 ft. 1312. 



Curious little plants 

 who.^e crown of coriaceous leaves is lifted off the ground, sometimes to tlie 

 height of a foot, by a cylindrical nieslnvork of stiff black roots. 



T. FLAVO-FUSCUM van den Bosch. Mt. (janala; high forest, climbing on 

 trce^runks; 3000 ft. Mt. Arago; high forest, climbing on trunks ; lOol) ft. 



Iffnambi 



^ 1 ; mgii forest, frequent on trunks ; 3000-4000 ft. 1410, 1550. 



hi oil 



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35) makes this a variotv of 2\ caudati 

 distinct enough to deserve specific rank. 



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T. FiUNCii Christ. Mt. Mou ; on troe-trunks in cloud-forest ; 3800 ft. 

 G14. The present is llio only known locality. The plants described and 

 iigured by Christ, and Rosenstock's Fil Nov. Cal 14 (coll. Franc), all came 

 from the summit of Mt. Mou. 



T. MAXIMUM Blume. Mt. Canala ; high forest ; 2500 ft. 1217. Malaya, 

 Polynesia, Queensland. 



T. PELTATUM Baker, Erinitage Stream ; clinging to tree-trunks in'molst 

 forest near stream ; 300 ft. 800. Polvnesia. 





T, PUMILUM van den Bosch. Mt. Panic ; under rocks in moist forest ; 



gneiss; 1500 ft. 1784, 



T. SAXIFRAGOIDES Prcsl. Ermitago Stream; 300 ft. lo-nambi: stream- 

 side forest, forming largo soft mats over gneiss boulders, interwoven with 

 bryophytes; 1000 ft. 182, 1044, 1850. Java, Philippines, Melanesia, 

 Fiji. 



T. TRiCHOPHYLLUM T. Moora. Tguambi ; high forest; terrestrial in shelter 

 of large gneiss boulders; 3000 ft. lf)18. Borneo. 



T. ViEiLLARDii van don Bosch. Mt. Canala ; on vertical rock-surface in 

 forest-stream ; schists ; 2500 ft. 1209, 1535. 



New Caledonian gatherings of this species are very uniform. I agree with 

 van Jen Boscli and Fournier in regarding it as a distinct species, though 

 Hooker and Baker unite it with 1\ pyxidiferum L, 



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