452 PLANTS FROM \E\V CALEDONIA. 



the earliest tenable specific name \s pseudaitstrale ; there was no need for the 

 subsequent coining of P. pnmUio Hioron* (under wliicli nimie Kosenstock \\v\-s 

 issued Fih Nor. CaL cxs. 46), 



PoLYFODIUM PUXCTATUM Sw. I'aonipiii ; OH rocks by shady stronm ; 

 shales; 200 ft. Iv. Comboui ; on trunk in Callitrls forest^ near river ; 400 ft. 

 Isle of Pines; very abundant on ground in banyan forest; corah 1881,211)7. 

 Tropics of Old World, Polynesia. 



"When terrestrial (h(^ fronds are tAvo feet long, rising vertically from the 

 soil, and are almost covered witli the minute sori; as an epiphyte they are 

 mucli shorter and the sori are confined to the distal i)art. 



P, ViEiLLARDli Mett. Plaiiie des Lacs ; on bases of tnmks in kaori forest ; 



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800 ft. Mt. Mou ; on rocks in damp gully; cretaceous; 800 ft. M(.Can;il:i ; 

 in crevices of bark ; high forest; 2500 ft. 3D7, 542, 1124. 



Panchcr's plant under this name in Herb. Mus. Brit, is 1\ l)eplanclieL 



Drynabia higtdula Bedd. Tonglioue Mts., Ermitage Stream, ]\[t. Mou, 

 Isle of Pines, etc.; up to 1500 ft.; epiphytic, 213. Tropical Asia, 

 Australia, and Polvnesia, 



ELAPnoGLOSSUM IGNAMBIENSE Compton, sp. nov. PJanta ei)iphyilca. 

 Rldzoma super arborum truncos breviter rcpens, radicibus advenliliis dense 

 vostitum. Frondis steriUs stipes 2-5 cm. long. 2 mm. lat. ; lamina oblont'o- 



olliptica circa 15 cm. lung. x4 cm. lat. rigida coriacea opnca glabra mediocrifor 

 viridip, apice rt)f(mdato-obtusa, basi in slipite attenuata; casta media pallida 

 ad apicem baud uttingens ; renuhv laterales angiilo GO^ exgi-edientes, non 

 vol simpliciter furcatre, marginem laminaj ;ittingentes. Frons fcriilis 

 similis, stipes circa 10 cm. long,^ lamina 10x3-5 cm. facie inferiore maro-ine 

 et parlibus lamina? ad costam mcdiam approxiniaiis exceptisj sporan<dis 

 dense vestita. 



Ignambi ; frequent in forest, creeping over tree-trunks ; o000"1250 W. 

 15 ()5. 



Belongs to the same group as K. amforme Schott, E, feejeen^e Brack., 

 and F, Vieillanlii T, ]\Ioore, but is sufliciently disiinet Ihei'efrom to merit 

 separate treatment. I have been unable to maicli my specimens at Kew 

 or the British Museum. From E. VielUardii it differs in havino- Uie fertile 



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and sterile fronds aj^proximiitely equal in length (ihough the proporli(»ii of 

 stipe and lamina is different), and in tlie distinctly thickened margin and the 

 thicker sid)«tunce of the lamina. 



E. NEOCALEDONICUM Coiuptou, sp. uov. Jiluzonia brevitcr icpcns radicil)ns 

 dense vestitunu Frondes steriles opaca? saturate virides rigid;e in saxis 

 procumbentes ; stipes 5-10 mm. long. 1 mm. diam.^ paucis romentis tectus ; 



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