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over rocks and up trees ; serpentine. lie Mouac ; abuiiJant on groiinJ nt 

 sea-level in Niaouli association ; schists. 515, 924, 2348. Malaya, Polj- 

 nesia, Queensland. 



Davallia tenuifoliaSw, Ignanibi ; liigli forest, especially along tracks ; 



gneiss ; 2000-3500 ft. 



1G17. 



Ja[)an, China, tropical Asia, Polynesia^ 



Comoro and Mascarenes, Madagascar- 



LiNDSAYA ALUTACEA Mett. Pic la ; in rock-crevices and among sedges 

 by stream-sidej scrub area, frequent ; serpentine ; 500 ft. 8G3. 



Mt. Mou ; on ground in moist gully, Niaouli 



L, CHEiKOlDES Pourn, 

 region ; 800 ft. 541. 



Great confusion exists in the nomenclature of this and related specics. 

 My specimen exactly matches plants at Kev^ and the British Mut^eum 

 collected at Wagap by Vieillard (1540), Now Vicillard 1540 from Mt. Dore 

 was Mettenius^s type-specilnen for the name L. nervosa : but Metteniiis s 

 description of his L. nervosa clearly refers to a different plant from mine 

 and from the Wagap specimen. Further, Fournier quotes Balansa 2094 as 

 L. nervosa along with Vieillard's 1540 from Mt. Dore; but the Balansa 2G94 

 wliich I have seen is not the same plant as Vieillard 1540 from Wagap. I 

 therefore conclude that Vieillard's two gatherings from Wagap and Mt. Dore 

 Tv^ere united under one series-number in error, though I have not been able 

 to see the Mt. Dore specimens. Pournier's L, cJieiroides seems to have been 

 identical with my plant, and this opinion is shared by liosenstock (FiL JVov. 

 CaL 33j coll. Franc) and by Christ (Bonati cxs. 365, coll. Franc). 



L. DELTOIDEA C. Chr. Ermitago Stream ; streamsidc forest ; serpentine ; 

 300 rt 209, New Hebrides. 



L, McGfLLiVRAYi Carruth, Nekando ; in Spermolepis forest; serpentine; 



500 ft. 



990. 



My specimens match McGillivray's P. IG in ITerb. Kcw. 

 The specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit, is larger and corresponds more closely 

 with Hooker and Baker's description. 



L. NEOCALEDONICA ConiptoUj sp* nov. liliizoma sub solo AMgenSj elongata 

 horizontalis ramenta brunnea tenuia ferens. Stipes 50 cm. long, basi teres 

 rainentis paucis instructus superne quadrangulus glaber, Bubrubicundus. 

 Frons bipinnata : pinncc subopposila3 subcontigua3 paten tes inferiores 

 19x4 cm. superiores 11x3 cm.: apex producta, apicem versus sensini 

 angustior dentataque ; segmentum terminale pinnulis 14 x 3 cm. instructum. 

 Pinmihv contigucc breviter petiolulaise adiantiforuies ovafo-quadralse saturate 

 virides tenues sed non pellucida3 intermedia^ 15x10 mm. intcrduni 18 nun. 

 long., margo posterior rectus vel paullo recurvatiis integer: margu inieiior 



