THE MONTANE FLORA OF FIJI. 187 
Potypopium Ноокевт, Brack. in Bot. U.S. Expl. Exp. xvi. 4 (1854). 
Summit of Mt. Victoria, 4000, on trees in moss forest. Sept. 793. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau), Samoa, Rarotonga, Hawaii, E. Australia 
and Lord Howe's Island. 
This species was collected by Seemann on Ovalau at 2000 ft., by Cheeseman 
at 1800 ft. in Rarotonga, and several other high elevations are given on 
specimen-labels in the Kew Herbarium. 
POLYPODIUM LINGUÆFORME, Mett. in Ann. Lugd.-Bat. ii. (1866) 228. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, running up trunks of trees, forest, Sept. 672. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu), Treasury Island, Solomon Islands, Philippines, 
New Guinea, Borneo, Sumatra. 
This plant is very interesting, being one of the few polypodiaceous ferns in 
which the fronds are modified for the retention of moisture. In this case the 
basal portion of the frond is dilated and in that portion a dense cushion of 
hairy roots aggregates, very like the scattered bunches on the rhizome of 
P. accedens, В]. These leaf-bases also collect humus as a secondary function. 
The rhizome, on the young plant collected, ran vertically up a tree-trunk, the 
fronds occurring at regular intervals on 1, the whole frond being adpressed 
to the trunk. 
Looking through the specimens at the Kew Herbarium and at the British 
Museum, in most cases, the fronds in drying had become displaced, so that the 
cushion of roots, always present, did not appear to be in strict correlation with 
them, or a frond would be pulled singly from the rhizome. In no case did 
I find a collector's note on this interesting biological point, nor is there any 
mention of it in the original description or subsequent literature. 
PoLyPoDIUM LOXOGRAMME, Мен. Pol. 112, n. 216, t. 3. f. 25 (1827). 
Nadarivatu, 2700, on trees in forest, pendent. Sept. 712. 
Distrib. North and South Pacific Islands ; Japan, S. China, tropical Asia, 
Africa and adjacent islands. 
SCHIZZEACE E. 
GLEICHENIA LINEARIS, С. В. Clarke, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 
(1880) 428. 
Koro Levu ridge, 2500, open reed country. Sept. 837. 
Distrib. Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, Marquesas, New Zealand. Tropies 
and sub-tropics generally. 
SCHIZÆA DICHOTOMA, Sm. in Mém. Ac. Turin, у. (1793) 422, t. 9. f. 9, 
Nadarivatu, 2700, common every where in forest. Sepi. 685. 
Distrib. Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga. Tropics of both hemispheres. 
