\ 
80 COPELAND. 
10. A. obtusatum Forst. 
No. 120. 
Australia to Chile. 
My spocimen U insufficient for positive determination, but is accompanied by 
this name. The rachis is broadly winged. 
11. A, Lauterbachfi Christ. {A. ohtusilohum Hook, non Desv., A. oceanicum 
C Chr.) 
No. nt, Goodenough Bay, altitude 1200 m.; .Vo. 35-), Lakekamu. 
Polynesia to Celebes. 
A'o. 554 has on the same plants typical fronds of A. Lauterhachii and of A 
oceanicum. This is an example of the not rare event that au author, believin- 
he describes a new species, really gives the first valid name to one alreadv lon^ 
known. ' ^ 
12. A. scandens J. Sm. 
No, 342, Lukekanui. 
Fiji to Luzon. 
STENOCHLAENA J. Smith. 
1. S. palustris (Burm.) Bedd. 
No. 167, Ambasi. 
Polynesia to the Asiatic continent. 
2. S. Kingii Copel. 
merme, 
^0 cm longo, paleaceo dein glabrescente ; pinnis froncTis sterilis multi- 
jiigis, ca. 16 cm longis, 20-22 mm latis, brevissime stipitatis, articulatis, 
basi cuneat.^, acuminatis, erennlatis, coriaceis, glabris, siecis supra atrovi- 
ridibus, infra olivaceis ; pinnis fertilibus 20 cm longis, 2 mm latis, stipiti- 
bns caruni 5 mm longis, validis. 
No. 285. 
sta^To/*t.l° f rr'-"'" ^""Y'""- ^'- *"■ ''' ^"^^ "^"' "»■«- "-1 --h stouter 
alks of the fertile pinnae and without the peculiar episporium. Of specie, in 
the sa.e part of the-world. .. Bra..enrM,U '^^ ^^^ l^^^Z 
abrupt y narrowed to long stalks, and S. Novae-Caledoniae (Mett.) Underw has 
broad fertile pinnae and sterile pinnae stalked and not acuminnto. 
ARTHROPTERIS J. Sinitli. 
1. A. Kingii Copel. spec. nova. 
r JoHrT'' ''^u''' ' ""^ '"'''"' °^°^™' P^^^^^ ^''^^'^''-' ^tipitibns 
remohs, 3- cm altis, nigns, ca. 3 cm supra rluzoma articulatis; fronde 
12-20 cm alta, 40-45 mm lata, acuminata, deorsum vix angustata ; rliaclii 
ngra, brevissime cmereo-pubenila ; pinnis horizontalibus, sessilibus, arti- 
£ n^r -''/T-r^'"' '^''^^^'' ^i'^^i^ nigrescentibus ; indusiis 
aiiqiiantum persistentibus. 
No. 332, Lakekamu. 
»ne niKldle of the stipe. Dryoptens orientalis is like it in this respect. 
