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TjOMARia Dkplanchei Baker. Mt. Mou ; Iiigh forest ; terrostriar; ser- 

 pentine ; 2500 ft. 570. Iiosetistock's7''i/. Tor. (a/. 45, sub Eom. Blechaim 

 opacum, is Lomar'ta Deplanchei (collected by Franc on Mt. Mon). 



L. DlVERsiFOLiA Baker, Mt. Panie ; abundant on ground in high forest ; 

 o-neiss ; 1500 ft. 1783. 



L. GIBBA LabilK Mt. Koglii, Mt, Mou, Taoni, etc. ; coniuion by streams 

 In forest areas all over New Caledonia. Shortly arborescent, the trunk 

 roacliing three or four feet in Jieight. New Hebrides. 



L. Lenoioiandi Baker. 

 4000 ft. 15(52, 



Ignambi ; frequent in high forest ; gneiss ; 



Forma AFRICA Coinpton, form. nov. The fronds are reduced in ai/e and 

 firmer in texture, closelj resembling those of L. diversifolia, from which it 

 differs in the tomentose rliachis. 



Ignanibi ; in a clearing, the type being at hand in the forest; 4250 ft. 

 15G2a. 



I suspect that L. diversifolia var. paleaceo-setosa Rosenstock (in Fedde, 

 Report. X. 75, coll. Lo Rat on Mt. Poindiniie) is really this reduced 

 L, Le}torf)iandiy which owes its special cbaracl eristics to growth in open 

 situations. 



L. OBTUSATA Labill. Plaine des Lacs ; in stream-bed in forest ; serpen- 

 tine; 1000 ft. 357. New Hebrides. 



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L. OPACA Fourn. Mt. Canala ; wettest parts of high forest; terrestrial; 



schists ; 2000-3000 £t. 1231. 



My specimens agree M'ith Mettenius's original desc^ription (sub nom. 



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JJlecluium oj)acum) and match his type-specimen, Viei third 1533. 

 description in Hook. & Bak. Syn. 176 (wdiich is the first use of the combina- 

 tion Lomarla opaca) does not apply to these specimens. Rosenstock's FH* 

 jy^ot\ CaL 45, sub nom. />. ojt^ac?/???, h^is no anastomosing veins and differs from 

 his species in other respects ; it is L, Beplancliei Baker. Polynesian 



L. riioCEKA Spreng, Mt. Mou; forest margin; serpentine; 3500ft. 

 Ignambi ; abundant in moister parts of higli forest; gneiss ; 3000 ft, 572, 

 170(3. Soutli Africa, Perak, ? Malaya, Polynesia, ? Tropical America, etc. 



L. ViEiLLAiiDii Baker. Mt. Canala; among rocks by stream in high 

 forest; schists; 1500 ft. Mt. Arago ; abundant by stream-side in high 

 forest ; schists ; 800 ft. 1189, 1405. 



Var. siMi*LEX Fourn. Ouendjam Forest ; abundant near stream ; shales ; 



500 ft. lUyO. It seems likely that this is the plant referreil to by Fournler 



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