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Polypodium (Eupolypodium) decorum, Brack. 



Poli/podium (Eupol 'y podium) decorum, Brack. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. LonJ., xv. p. 108,'llook. 

 and Bak., Synopsis Fil., p. 331. 



Admiralty Islands. — Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, and in Polynesia 

 eastward through the Fijis and Samoan Islands to Tahiti, and northward to the Sandwich 

 group. 



Polypodium (Niphobolus) adnascens, Swartz. 



Polypodium {Niphobolus) adnascens, Swartz; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. LonJ., xv. p. 108; Seem., 

 El Vit., p. 367 (sub Niphobolo). 



Admiralty Islands. — Spread nearly all over the warmer parts of Asia ; also occurring 

 in Western Tropical Africa ; and in Polynesia it extends eastward through the Fijis to the 

 Society Islands. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) irioides, Poir. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) irioides, Poir. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 109 ; Benth., 



Fl. Austr., vii. p. 771. 

 Pleopeltis irioides, T. Moore ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 367. 



Admiralty Islands. — North-eastern Australia to Chusan and North India, the 

 Mascarene Islands, and West Africa ; in Polynesia it ranges from New Caledonia to the 

 Fijis and Tahiti. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) linguseforme, Mett. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) lingumforme, Mett. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud., xv. p. 109 ; Hook, 

 and Bak., Synopsis Fil., p. 358. 



Admiralty Islands. — Also from Amboina, New Guinea, the Solomon and Fiji Islands. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) rampans, Baker. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) rampans, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 109. 



Rhizome very wide-creeping, ^ line thick, clothed only with a few minute, adpressed, 

 linear, dark-brown scales. Stipes naked, very short. Lamina simple, lanceolate-ligulate, 

 4-6 inches long, f to l£ broad at the middle, acute, narrowed gradually to the ends, 

 membranous, both surfaces quite naked. Main veins erecto-patent two-thirds of the way 

 to the edge, then uniting in an arch ; areolae rather large, very distinct, each with an 

 included knobbed free veinlet. Sori not present. 



Admiralty Islands. — A next neighbour to Polypodium lycopodioides. 



