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centre of the frond 2-3 inches deep, H-2 inches broad at the base, erecto-patent, narrowed 

 gradually to an acute point ; those near the base more shallow. Pinnae each with a dis- 

 tinct costa and erecto-patent main veins 3-4 lines apart, distinct to the edge, connected by 

 several distinct cross-bars, as in Campyloneuron ; the final areola; quadrate, minute, fur- 

 nished with copious, knobbed, free, included venules. Fertile portion of the frond extend- 

 ing over the upper half-foot of the rachis, which bears about twenty pairs of subulate 

 lomarioid pinnae 1^-2 inches long. Eachis brown-stramineous. Both surfaces quite 

 destitute of hairs and scales. 



Admiralty Islands. — Of known species only near Acrostichum drynar ioides, from 

 which it differs in its membranous texture and much smaller size. 



Lygodium dichotomum, Swartz. 



Lygodium dichotomum, Swartz; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. Ill; Hook, and Bak., 

 Synopsis Fil., p. 437. 



Admiralty Islands. — -Throughout the Malayan Archipelago, South India, and South 

 China ; and besides the Admiralty Island specimens there is another in the Kew Herbarium 

 from Polynesia, but without any more definite locality. 



Ophioglossum pendulum, Linn. 



Ophioglossum pendulum, Linn. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. Ill; Benth., Fl. Austr., 

 vii. p. 689 ; Seem., FL Vit, p. 378. 



Admiralty Islands. — Eastern Australia to the Philippines, Assam, Ceylon, and the 

 Mascarene Islands, and eastward in Polynesia to Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands. 



LYCOPODIACE^E. 



Lycopodium cernuum, Linn. 



Lycopodium cernuum, Linn. ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. Ill ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. 

 p. 676; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 328. 



Admiralty Islands.— This is spread nearly all over the tropics, both in America and 

 in the Old World, including New Zealand and Polynesia, from the New Hebrides to Tahiti 

 and the Sandwich and Marianne groups. It also occurs in the Azores. 



Selaginella canaliculata, Baker. 



Selaginella canaliculata, Baker in Journ. Bot., 1885, p. 21. 



Selaginella incequalifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 112, rum Spring, fide Bakeri. 



Admiralty Islands. — Generally dispersed in Tropical Asia, including Western 



Polynesia. 



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