782 FERNS OF XORTH QUEENSLAND. 



determination, but its identity is undoubted. There are specimens 

 in the Sydney Herbarium, collected at Atherton by Miss Macken- 

 zie, and at Herberton by Mr. Waller. 



D. POLYPODIOIDKS Bl. 



Stoney Creek, near Cairns; July, 1913. 

 D. PROLIFERUM (Lara.) Thouars; Asplenium decussatum Sw. 



By Josephine Creek, Bartle Frere; July, 1913. 



This striking fern I found only at one spot. The name, decus- 

 satum, by which it has been commonly known, must give place to 

 the older proliferum. Van A. van Rosenburgh (Malayan Ferns, 

 p. 424) gives var. accedens{'^stiipes muricate or spinulose tlirough- 

 out"), and my specimens must, possibly, be placed under this 

 variety. Domin remarks similarly regarding his BeUenden Ker 

 specimens. 



A s P L E N I u M L. 

 A. NIDUS L. 

 Common in the Cairns district. 



A. SIMPLICIFRONS F.V.M. 



Throughout the Cairns district especially at Kuranda, in the 

 scrubs on the northern side of the river. Occasionally, the frond 

 is forked at the tip. Bailey, in Bot. Bull. xiii.,(1896) describes a 

 var. laciniatum. 



A. UNiLATERALE Lam.; A. resectum J. Sm. 

 Var. AUSTiiALiENSE Bail. 



Base of Bartle Frere ; July, 1913. 



A very rare fern. Previously recorded from Johnstone River 

 (leg. Kefford), and hills of Mulgrave River (leg. Bailey, 1889) ; 

 also found in the Evelyn Scrub by Mr. Waller, in 1908. I know 

 of no other records. The variety is apparently well-based; the 

 rhizome being shorter and the stipites closer together than in the 

 typical form, while the pinnae are less cut away on the lower side. 

 The figure of A. resectum in Beddome's "Ferns of Southern India" 

 (t. 132) may be compared with Bailey's figure of var. australiense 

 in his Third Supplement to "Syn.Qld.FL," and in "Liths." 



