101 VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA. 



the expedition collected was not Bellis perennis, but doubtless 

 either the new Olearia, or one of the two endemic Vittadinnias. 



The following is a complete enumeration of the Vascular 

 Cryptogamia obtained during the expedition, with descriptions of 

 the new species. I have added in brackets a general outline of the 

 distribution of the species already known, and the numbers pre- 

 fixed to the names of the novelties indicate their position accord- 

 ing to the sequence followed in our ' Synopsis Fihcum.' 



GlEICHENIACE/E. 



Gleichenia dicarpa R. Br. — The type on Mount Knutsford, and 

 also a variety resembling the Javan G. vulcanica Blume, with 

 larger and more copious palene and frond covered beneath with 

 ferruginous tomentum. (Australia, New Zealand, Malay Isles, 

 New Caledonia). 



G. flaijdlaris Spreng. — The type. Mount Musgrave, alt. 7000- 

 8000 ft., and near the summit of the Owen Stanley Range. A 

 variety with much narrower segments, resembling the Javan G. 

 bracteata Blume, on Mount Knutsford. (Polynesia, Malay, and 

 Mascaren Isles. 



G. (Uchotoma Hook. — Mount Knutsford. (Cosmopolitan in 

 tropical and subtropical zone). 



CYATHEACEiE. 



48*. Cyathea Macgregorii, F. M. Record, p. 40. — Caudex not 

 above 2 ft. long. Frond bipinnate, rigid in texture, the largest 

 pinnae in our specimens being 4 inches long by an inch broad ; 

 rachises densely or thinly clothed on the upper surface with an 

 intertangled coat of brown paleae ; young fronds clothed copiously 

 with a similar covering and large ovate-lanceolate whitish or brown 

 membranous scales on the rachises. Mature pinnules lanceolate, 

 at most an inch long, £ in. broad. Tertiary segments round or 

 oblong, bullate, rigid, with much recurved rigid edges, enclosing a 

 single large central sorus, with a fragile globose indusium. — Mount 

 Knutsford, with Ranunculus amerophyUus and Decatoca Spencerii ; 

 also Mount Victoria and near the summit of the Owen Stanley 

 range. A most distinct and interesting novelty. The habit and 

 bullate tertiary segments with recurved edges recall the very rare 

 Cheilanthcs speciosissima A. Br. (Plecosorus mexicanus Fee). 



60* Cyathea Mueller! Baker, n. sp. — Fronds ample, tripinnate t 

 moderately firm in texture ; rachis and both surfaces naked, except 

 the midrib of the pinnules above ; upper surface dark green, lower 

 pale green. Lowest pinnae in our specimen oblong, a foot long. 

 Pinnules lanceolate, under an inch broad. Tertiary segments 

 linear-oblong, | in. broad, adnate to the rachis, deeply crenajte, the 

 edge not at all recurved. Veins deeply forked in the lower lobes of 

 the segments. Sori 8-10 to the largest segments. Indusium a 

 persistent subentire cup. — Mount Knutsford. Allied to C. medul- 

 aris Sw. 



