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Archipelago to the Himalayas, and westward to Madagascar. There are also specimens in 

 the Ivew Herbarium from the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides, but not from the 

 Fijis. 



Davallia elegans, Swartz. 



Davallia elegans, Swartz; Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. Loud., xv. p. 106; Benth., FL Austr., 

 vii. p. 715. 



Admiralty Islands.— Widely diffused in Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, and Poly- 

 nesia, where it extends eastward to Harvey Island and Tahiti. 



Lindsaya lobata, Poir. 



Lindsaya lobata, Poir. ; Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 106 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis 

 Fil., p. Ill ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 720. 



Admiralty Islands. — North-eastern Australia to Samoa and the Fijis, aud the 

 Malayan Archipelago to Southern India. Baker unites Lindsaya billardieri, Lindsaya 

 pulchra, Lindsaya harveyi, and Lindsaya seemanni, Carruthers (Seem., Fl. Vit., pp. 337 

 et 338) with this. 



Asplenium nidus, Linn. 



Asplenium nidus, Linn. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 106; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 

 744; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 353. 



Admiralty Islands. — Very widely spread in the warmer parts of the Old World, and 

 in Polynesia ranging from New Caledonia to Mangaia, Tahiti. Elisabeth Island, and the 

 Sandwich Islands. It inhabits the islands of the Indian Ocean, including Madagascar, 

 Johanna, the Seychelles, and Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago, but not Continental Africa. 



Asplenium falcatum, Lam. 



Asplenium falcatum, Lam.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 107; Benth., FL Austr., 

 vii. p. 746; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 354. 



Admiralty Islands. — -This species ranges from New Zealand to India and Africa, and 

 in Polynesia it extends to the Fijis, Samoa, and Tongatabu. Recently, too, Mr Jenman 

 has sent a specimen of a fern from Jamaica, which is not distinguishable from this. 



Asplenium cuneatum, Lam. 



Aspilenium cuneatum, Lam. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 107 ; Hook, and Bak., Syno] 

 Fil., p. 214 ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 355. 



Admiralty Islands. — A common Tropical American species, also found in South 

 and Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands, Hong Kong, Java, and other part* of the 

 Malayan Archipelago ; the other Polynesian localities represented in the Kew Herbarium 

 are the Fijis and the Sandwich Islands. 



