BY J. H. MAIDEN AND E. BETCHE. 801 



Flora von Neu-Kaledonien," in Engler's Bot. Jahrbiicher (Vol. 

 xxxix., p. 8, 1907). We have not seen Presl's description of A. 

 amcemim; his "Tentaraen Pteridographije " seems not to be in 

 Sydney, and we must rely on the correctness of Dr. Schlechter's 

 determination. Waller's Queensland specimens are quite iden- 

 tical with Schlechter's New Caledonian ones, and are very distinct 

 from the Australian form of A. unilaterale figured and described 

 by Mr. F. M. Bailey from Queensland, as A. resectum var. 

 attsiraliense. 



We give here a short description of A. anuenuni drawn up 

 from Mr. Waller's Queensland specimens, and Dr. Schlechter's 

 New Caledonian ones : — 



A tufted glabrous fern with simply pinnate fronds mostly 

 below one foot high, including the slender stipes, and 2 to 4^ 

 inches broad at the base, gradually narrowed towards the top, 

 mostly bulbiferous near the apex. Piunse lanceolate, unequal- 

 sided, the upper side broadly cuneate at the base, the lower side 

 narrowly cuneate and sometimes slightly cut away, bluntly 

 toothed or lobed on both sides, the incisions shallow towards the 

 ]joint of the pinnse, deeper near the base and cut down on the 

 upper side, nearly or quite to the rhachis in the lowest one or 

 two pairs of pinnaj, leaving thus a single pinnule on the base of 

 the lowest pinnse of the larger fronds. Texture thinly coriaceous. 

 Veins very oblique, forked. Sori in an irregular line on each 

 side of the midrib, the indusium opening towards the midrib. 



AsPLENiUM NOUMALE Don. New for Australia. 



Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, N. Queensland; on rocks and 

 dead log.s(Pv. F. Waller; 1909). 



A fern with a wide geographical distribution, recorded in van 

 Rosenburgh's " Malayan Ferns from Malacca, Sumatra, Celebes, 

 Philippines, China, North India and Hawaii." The Australian 

 specimens are much smaller than the Indian specimens(figured in 

 Beddome's " Ferns of Southern India" t.cxxxiii.), but they agree 

 well with the smaller forms from the Philippine Islands, though 

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