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— stipe 200 cm., frond 220 cm., total length 420 cm. ; girth of stipe at 

 bottom 64 mm. ; length of lowest pinna 131 cm. 



Dry forest, ngaio scrub, buft'alo-grass meadow, landslip (Denham Bay), 

 Mariscus slopes, Sunday Island. Ravine in Macauley Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 Malaya. 



Adiantum diaphanum, BI. 



Fronds 15-20 cm. long, branching near the base into 2 to 5 tapering 

 subfalcate pinnae. 



Dry forest, Sunday Island. Clifis, Macauley Island. 



Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Polynesia, 

 Asia (trop.). 



Adiantum hispidulum, Sw. 



Dry forest, cliffs (crater), Sunday Island. Macauley Island (Cheeseman). 

 Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 Malaya. 



Adiantum affine, Willd. 



Forest, Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Australia, 



Pteris comans, Forst. f. 



Forest, ngaio scrub, Mariscu% slopes, pohutukawa forest (crater), land- 

 shp (Denham Bay), Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia. 



Pteris tremula, R. Br. 



Dry forest, Sunday Island. Scrub, Meyer Island. Cliffs, Macauley 

 Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji. 



Histiopteris incisa (Thbg.), J. Sm. 



Swamp, dry forest (rare), Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, tropics. 



Pteridium esculentum (Forst. f.), Cockayne. 



Dry forest, buffalo-gi-ass meadow, Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 southern regions. 



Polypodium diversifolium, Willd, 



P. Billardieri, Cheeseman (not R. Br.), Manual N.Z, Flora, 1013, 

 Forest, swamp, warm ground (Denham Bay), Sunday Island, 

 Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia. 



Cyclophorus serpens (Forst. f.), C. Chr. 



Forest, inland rocks, cliffs (crater), epiphyte in pohutukawa forest (craterK 

 Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Polynesia. 

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