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AsPLENiCM NIDUS Linn. Abundant every wliere in lowland forest, on tree- 

 trunks and rocks, throughout New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines. Tropical 

 Asia, Polynesia and Australia, E. Africa, 



A. NOV.^>CALRDONi^ Hook. Mt, Mou ; on ground in Yalley-forest ; 

 1500 ft. Kuakue ; rock-crevices near river ; 50 ft, Mt. HuniLoldt ; 

 stream-side in high forest, among stones ; 1000 ft. E. Ngoye ; in rock- 

 crevtces near river and along streams ; 400 ft. Taom ; among rocks in open 

 scrub. All on serpentine ; 1000 ft. 432, 952, 1031, 20G3, 2306. The frond 

 vary greatly according to situation ; sometimes they are long, soft, and 

 drooping, sometimes short and stiffly erect^ according as the plants are 

 growing on the ground in moist forest coiulitionSj or in rock-fissures in 

 exposed situations. 



A. onLiQUUM Forst. Mt. Canala ; on rocks in high forest; scarce; 

 schists ; 2000 ft, R. Ngoj^e ; in Spermolepis forest near river ; in hollows 

 'of tree-trunks; 400 ft. 1229^ 2101. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctic 

 Islands, S. Chile. 



Var. INTEGRA R.Bonaparte (pro sub-var.). Mt. Humboldt; high forest by 

 stream-side ; serpentine ; 1000 ft, lOOG. Sarasin and Roux, as well aa 



Balansa, also collected this fern on Mt. Humboldt ; my notes refer to it as 

 the ctunmon form in this district* It seems dcPiuite euouuh, therefore, to be 

 regarded as a, possibly local, variety. 



Prince R. Bonaparte mentions Fournier as the authority for the name 

 Integra. Fournier, however, merely writes : "^ S-var. frondibus integris v. 

 ternatis (Junius). Messioncoue pr. montem Humboldt^ 700 m. (Bal. 855).^^ 



A. roLYPHYLETicuM Compton, sp. nov. Rluzoma copiose radicanSjranjentis 

 lincaribus acumijiatis fusco-brunneis indutum, primo gracile et frondes 

 steriles inter se satis distantes gerens, deiude crassior et apice frondibus 

 fertilibus majoribus approximati instructum. Frons adnlta lanceolata bi- 



pinnata circa 60 cm. long. 18 cm. lat, ; vhacliis basi copiose ramentifera 

 alibi sparsim, fusco-brunnea ; pinme 20-30-jng5e, pauca3 basales mediocriter 

 ilistantes, ceterpe approximatoe, angnlo circo GO^ ex rhachi orientes plus miims 

 aperloo arcuatre ajqualiter pinnulatc^e, pinnuljie proximales apice 2-3-fida3, 

 distales integroe lineari-oblong{)e acutcT, frond nm sterilium semitranslucentes 

 leviter crispatee, frondum fertilium subopacse glabra} saturate virid( s, quseque 

 niargine exteriori soro unico apicem vix attingente instructa. 



Mt. Canala ; forest, creeping over ground and climbiiig trunks ; schists ; 

 2000-3000 ft, Mt. Arago ; moist forest^ climbing on rocks and trunks; 

 1000 ft, 1125, 1440. 



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