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ASPLENIUM OBTUSATUM, Forst. 



From Coeur Island, Bass's Straits. 



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A. FALCATUM, Forst. 



Admiralty Islands, Little Kei Island, Humboldt Bay (New Guinea), Ton- 

 gatabu. 



A. cuneatum, Lam. 

 Admiralty Islands and Ternate. 



A. laserpitiifolium, Lam. 

 Aru Islands. 



A. (Diplazium) Brackenridgei, Baker. 

 Admiralty Islands. 



A. (Anisogonium) esculentum, PresL 



Admiralty Islands, Ternate (2000-4000 feet), Zamboangan (Philippines). 



A. (Anisogonium) decussatum, Sw. 

 Aru Islands. 



Aspidium repandum, 'Willd. 



Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, Prof. W. Thomson. 



Nephrodium (Eunephrodium) molle, Desv. 

 Admiralty Islands and Camiguen (Philippines). 



197*. N. (Eunephrodium) microchlamys, Baker, n. sp. Caudex 

 absent. Stipe \ foot, pale brown, scaleless, finely pilose. Lamina 

 oblong-laneeolate, 2-3 feet long, 12-15 inches broad, bipinnatifid. 

 Pinnae, below the small entire top ones, about 40-jugate, sessile, linear- 

 ligulate, the largest 7~S inches long, f-f inch broad, the lowest not 

 reduced, cut down to a broad wing into close, blunt, entire, rather 

 ascending lobes | inch broad, of which the lowest on the anterior side 

 is rather larger than the rest. Texture membranous. Both sides 

 finely pilose and densely dotted with minute pale-brown glands. 

 Veinlets 12-16-jugate, the lowest pair forming a deltoid arch midway 

 between sinus and costa, the next two pairs meeting at the sinus. 

 Sori round, minute, forming a regular row nearer the costa than the 

 edge of the lobes. Involucre minute, persistent. 



Little Kei Island. 



General habit of i\r. molle, with very different sori and veining. 



N. (Eunephrodium) pennigerum, Hook. 

 Aru Islands. 



N. (Eunephrodium) invisum, Carruth. 

 Tongatabu and Humbolt Bay, New Guinea. 



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