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Illawarra, Guil. Macarthur, Eques ; Berrima, C. Moore ; McLeay's 
River, Beekler; Richmond's River, C. Moore ; Rockingham's Bay, 
Dallachy. 
Caudex prglongus altissime truncos ràmosque arborum circum- 
scandit, Planta Hookero eximie definitata ob frondem sspe pilo- 
sulam zgre in diagnosin Brownii quadrat. Pinns sorigerz 3-18" 
longs.  Varietas major glabro-pinnata a planta Ceylonica baud 
distingui potest. Vence spatio longiusculo simplices, superne seepe 
dicladz, in fronde minuta omnes indivisa, 
Aspidium exaltatum, Swartz Synops. Filic. 45 ; Nephrodium 
exaltatum, R. Br. Prodr. 148 ; Nephrolepis exaltata, Schott Gen. 
Fil 15; Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 152. (Sect. Nephrolepis.) 
Dunk Island, MeGillivray ; Teviot River, Fraser (conf. Hook. 
l. e.) ; Edgecombe's Bay, Fitzalan ; Rockingham's Day in rupibus 
passim inundatis secus amnes, Dallachy. 
Pinnz tenui-chartacez, interdum ad semipedem longs. Vene 
utplurimum fere e basi divise, ramo altero simplice sorigero non- 
nunquam seorso, altero szpe ramuloso. Sori in pinnis luxurian- 
tibus a margine evidenter remoti. 
Comparavi plantam Sandvicensem Hillebrandi, Ceylonicam 
Thwaitesii, Hong Kongensem Hancei et plura specimina culta. 
Aspidium tuberosum, Bory de St. Vinc. in Willd. Spec. Plant. v. 
234; Nephrolepis tuberosa, Pres! Tentam. ; Hook, Spec. Filic. iv. 
161. (Sect. Nephrolepis.) 
Teviot River, Fraser sec. Hooker; Brisbane's River, F. M. ; 
Clarence's River, Wilcox & Moore, ubi frequens ; MeLeay's River, 
Beckler. 
Congruit cum planta ex insula Norfolciana e collectione ami- 
cissimi Woolls ; Borboniea ex herbario Sieberi, insule St. Nicolai 
e coll. Ballei, Khasyana Hookeri et "Thomsoni, Hong Kongensi 
Hancei, Ceylonica 'Thwaitesii, Caracasana Moritzii. 
Ven plerzque supra basin dicladz., 
Aspidium decompositum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. 109 ; A. acu- 
minatum, Lowe Filie. t. 11 ; Nephrodium decompositum, R. Br: 
Prodr. 149; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. ii. 39, t. Ixxix ; Hook. 
Spec. Fil. iv. 146; N, tenerum, R. Br. Pr..149 ; N. microsorum, 
Endl. Fl. Ins. Norf. 9; N. glabellum, A. Cunn. in Hook. Compan. 
to Bot. Mag. ii. 267 ; Lastrea acuminata, T. Moore. (Sect. Las- 
trea.) ; 
Ad pagum Penola, J. E. Woods; in fissuris rupium calearearum 
prope Blanchetown, Forde; tunc e vicinia promontorii Cape Otway 
per Australiam felicem et orientalem sinu Rockinghamii tenus, sil- 
varum humidiorum incola. 
Specimina hujus filicis polymorphz sine formis transientibus 
haud facilead unam gregem ducenda, multis etiam exemplaribus 
ad Polypodium segregata, quum indusia ssepe haud evalvantur. 
