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PoLYPODiUM Brownii Wickstr, Mt. Humboldt ; frequently climbing 

 over trunks in sireaniside forest ; 1000 ft. 1034. Australia, Fiji. 



P. CUCULLATUM NoGS & 



Mou 



3700 ft, Tgnanibi ; on rocks by stream ; gnoiss; 3000 ft. 483, 1533. 

 CeyloHj Malaya^ ^Jj^- 



My sj)ecimens apparently belong to the f. minor Fournier. A minute and 



remarkable plant ; the small fertile pinnae are folded lengthwise over the 

 solitary sorij the sterile pinnjx} being flat. 



P. DErLANCHEi Baker. Mt. Mou ; high forest ; epiphytic ; 2500 ft. 

 Ignambi ; high forest; creeping on tree-trunks ; 4000 ft.. 578, 1659. 



P. GLABRUM Mett. Tonghoue Mts. ; creeping over rocks by stream ; 

 crelaceous ; 500 ft. Mt, Moii ; clim1)ing up trunks in forest margin and 

 Niaouli association. 169, 447. Australia, Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, 



New Zealand. 



The New Caledonian material I have seen has the fronds not dimorphic, 

 some inches long^ and lacking ferruginous tomentum ; in these respects it 

 differs from P. conjlnens^ to which Prince Roland Bonaparte and Schlechter 

 refer New Caledonian gatherings. 



P. LANCEOLA Mott. Mt. Mou ; on trunks in conifer forest ; 3500 ft. 

 lo-nambi ; on trunks in conifer forest; 3500ft, Ignambi; on trunks in liigh 



tt 



forest; 3500 ft, Mt. Panie ; on mossy bark in forest ; 1500 ft. 494, 1504, 



1786. 



I cannot agree with Fournier's subdivision of this species (^SelUgiua 



lanceola Ponrn.) into three varieties — selllgneoldes^ intermedia^ and i^olypo- 



dioides; all these states can be found on the same individual, as my specimens 



show. Schlechter 3 4998, issued as P, lanceola ^ is P. Brownii (Herb. Mus. 



Brit.). 



P. LASTOSTirES Mctt. Phune des Lacs ; stream-bed in gully forest; 

 serpentine ; 1300 ft. Comboui-Ngoye watershed ; on trunks in Casuarina 

 forest ; 3000 ft. 299, 1004. 



P. riTYMATODES Linn. Mt. Mou; forest-margin; cretaceous; 1000 ft. 

 He Mouac ; maritime cliffs; schists. 466^ 2390. Tropics of the Old AVorld. 



P. rsEUUArsTRALE Fourn. Mt. Mou ; high forest; on tree-trunks ; 3500 ^t. 

 629. 



Fournier desoi'Ibod this fern as Grammitis 2:)seudavstrale in 1869 ; in 1873 

 he included it in the genus Poly podium. This is the P. nanum Yieill. 

 (H. B. Syn. p. 507), as appears from the description and from Vieillard^s 

 specimens. As the name P, na?ium already existed (Fee, Gen. 238, 1850-2), 



