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utrinque lepidotis, sterilibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis basi anguste attenuatis, fertilibus parvis 
oblongis obtusis basi leviter attenuatis; venis immersis, parallelis, furcatis.— Z/aphoglossum Feejeense, 
Brack. U. S. Expl. Exped. Filices, p. 72.—Viti islands, vicinity of Sandalwood Bay, on trees (U. 8. 
Expl. Exped.). 
2. A. obtusifolium, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. p. 102 ; rhizomate crasso, brevi, repente, paleaceo ; 
stipitibus semiteretibus, basi paleaceis; frondibus coriaceis, glabris, submarginatis, obscure lepidotis, 
obovato-oblongis, obtusis, basi attenuatis, fertilibus angustioribus et stipite longioribus; venis 
impressis, parallelis et furcatis.— Elaphoglossum obtusifolium, Brack. U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 72.— 
Viti Islands, Ovalau, on rocks and trees at an altitude of 2000 feet (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
XLVII. Lomariopsis, Fée, Hist. Acrost. p. 10.  Sporangia paginam totam inferiorem 
frondis fertilis obtegentia. Venæ simplices v. parallelo-furcatæ, liberæ.—Filices rhizomate scan- 
dente, frondibus diplotaxibus heteromorphis pinnatis. 
1. L. Brackenridgei, Carr. ms.; rhizomate stipitibusque paleaceis ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis 
alternis, brevi-stipitatis; sterilibus glabris, supra nitidis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi attenuatis, 
margine undulatis ; fertilibus linearibus ; venis prominentibus, simplicibus, raro furcatis.—Stenochlena 
variabilis, Brack. (non Fée) U. S. Expl. Exped. Filices, p. 76.—Viti (Seemann! n. 711; U.S. Expl. 
Exped.). Also from Samoan Islands (Powell !). 
2. L. variabilis, Fée, Hist. Acrost. p. 70 ; rhizomate repente, flexuoso, stipitibusque paleaceis ; 
frondibus pinnatis, pinnis stipitatis; sterilibus glabris, lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi oblique cuneatis, 
margine crenato-serratis; fertilibus linearibus, venis prominentibus.— Viti (U.S. Expl. Exped.). 
Also from Tahiti (Nelson !). : 
3. L. Seemanni, Carr. ms.; rhizomate scandente, cum stipitibus basi paleaceo; stipitibus 
teretibus, superne subalatis; frondibus pinnatis; pinnis glabris, sterilibus stipitatis, elongato- 
oblongis v. linearibus, apice abrupte acuminatis, basi acutis, fertilibus elongato-linearibus, apice 
abrupte acuminatis; venis simplicibus v. furcatis parallelis—L. cuspidata, J. Smith (non Fée), 
* Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 261.—Viti (Seemann! n. 712). Also from Aneitum, New Hebrides 
(M‘Gillivray !). 
XLVIII. Stenochlæna, J. Smith, Hook. Journ. 1841, p. 401. Sporangia paginam. totam 
inferiorem frondis fertilis obtegentia. Vena ad costam arcuato-anastomosantes, venulis parallelis, 
simplicibus v. furcatis, liberis.—Filices rhizomate scandente, frondibus diplotaxibus pinnatis, pinnis 
articulatis, basi glanduliferis.— Lomariobotrys, Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 45. 
1. S. scandens, J. Smith, 1.с.; rhizomate scandente, nudo; stipitibus glabris, subteretibus, 
suleatis; frondibus coriaceis, glabris, pinnatis; pinnis sterilibus, ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, basi 
cuneatis, margine spinuloso-serratis, serratis у. integris ; pinnis fertilibus elongato-linearibus, margine 
integro revolutis; venis prominentibus, approximatis, parallelis.—Lomaria scandens, Willd. Sp. РІ. 
vol. v. p. 293.— Viti (Seemann! n. 710). 
Stenochlena Feejeensis, Brack. U. S. Expl. Exped. Filices, p. 78. t. 11. f. 1, so exactly corresponds with 
the small barren pimpinelloid fronds of Lomaria filiformis, as pointed out by Sir W. Hooker (Sp. Fil. 
nm p. 34), that it seems to me there must be some error in referring the plant figured by Brackenridge 
to Viti. 
The following species from tropical Polynesia should be recorded here:—1. Olfersia gorgonea, Presl, 
Tent. Pter. p. 235 (Aconiopteris obtusa, Fée, Hist. Acrost. p. 80. t. 40. f. 2?), from the Sandwich Islands 
(D. Nelson! Menzies! Hillebrand! Macrae!). 2. O. Vieillardii, Carr. ms. (Acrostichum Vieillardii, Mett. 
Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4. vol. xv. p. 55), from New Caledonia (Vieillard). A E of Olfersia cervina, Kunze, 
said to be from the Sandwich Islands (Arch. Menzies) exists in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
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