108 MR. J. G. BAKER OX THE POLYNESIAN FERNS 



Nephrodium (Eunephrodium) truncatum, Presl. 



Admiralty Islands. 



N. (Sagenia) latifolium, Baker, var. irregulare (Brack.). 

 Matuku, Fijis. 



Nephrolepis acuta, Presl. 



Matuku (Fijis), Camiguen and Zamboangan (Philippines), Banda and 

 Admiralty Islands. 



N. acuta, var. rufescens, Presl. 



Tongatabu, Admiralty Islands, and Api (New Hebrides). 



N. EXALTATA, Schott. 



Admiralty Islands. 

 N. ram os a, Moore. 



Malamaui (Philippines). 



Polypodium (Dictyopteris) difforme, Blume. 



Aru Islands. 



P. (Eupolypodium) decorum, Brack. 

 Admiralty Isles. 



P. (Goniophlebium) verrucosum, Wall. 

 Temate, 2000-4000 feet. 



P. (NlPHOBOLUS) ADNASCENS, Sw. 



Matuku (Fijis), Malanipa Island (Philippines), and Admiralty Islands. 



278*. P. (Niphobolus) macropodum, Baker, n. sp. Rhizome 

 woody, short-creeping, a line thick, clothed with minute, adpressed, 

 deltoid, black scales with a brown border. Phyllopode 3-4 lines, 

 * clothed with scales, just like the rhizome. Proper stipe bordered very 

 nearly to the base. Fronds all alike (barren and fertile), ligulate, 

 very thick and rigid in texture, 4-8 inches long, ^-f inch broad, the 

 fertile portion contracted, the point acute, the base narrowed very 

 gradually, the upper surface naked, the lower clothed with thin cot- 

 tony tomentum like that of P. adnascens. Veins entirely hidden. Sori 

 like those of P. adnascens, occupying continuously the contractedupper 

 half of the fronds, minute and immersed in the pale-brown tomentum, 

 6-8 in an erecto-patent row between midrib and edge, and each 

 showing distinctly on the upper side of the frond. 

 Aru Islands. 



Differs from i\T. adnascens, var. varium, by its much thicker and 

 more rigid texture, long phyllopode, and almost obsolete stipes. 



278*. P. (Niphobolus) pachydermum, Baker, n. sp. Rhizome 

 wide-creeping, 1 line thick, woody, flexuose, clothed with minute ad- 



