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VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA. 



and reaching nearly to the edge. — Mount Knutsford. Stands on 

 the line of boundary between Polypodium, section Grammitis aud 

 Gymnogramme, as understood in ' Synopsis Filicum.' 



P. diminution Baker? — Mount Knutsford and Mount Victoria. 

 Differs a little from the Lord Howe's Island plant in palea?, stipe 

 and sori, and is perhaps a distinct species. 



110.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) scabristipes Baker n. sp. 

 — Rootstock not seen. Stipe brown, wiry, scabrous, 2-3 in. long. 

 Frond simple, linear, entire, 5-6 in. long, ^ in. broad at the 



vj middle, thick, rigid, nearly glabrous, narrrowed to the base. 

 Veins forked, erecto-patent. Sori oblong, oblique, rather im- 

 mersed, -jL in. long, placed in a row nearer the midrib than the 

 edge. — Near the summit of the Owen Stanley range. Near the 

 Malayan P.fasciatum Mett. 



111.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) locellatum Baker, n. sp. — 

 Rbizome short-creeping, ^ in. thick, densely clothed with small 



u ovate-lanceolate pale-brown palea?. Stipes slender, naked, wiry, 

 erect, 2-3 in. long. Fronds simple, linear, entire, glabrous, thick, 

 rigid, 5-6 in. long, i in. broad at tbe middle, narrowed gradually to 

 the base and apex. Veins hidden. Sori oblong, oblique, im- 

 mersed in deep pits, forming a long row nearer the midrib than tbe 

 margin. — Mount Victoria. Very distinct in Polypodium, section 

 Grammitis, by its deeply immersed sori. 



133. * Polypodium (Eupolypodium) Musgravianum Baker, 

 n. sp. — Stipes tufted, very slender, nearly naked, -|-1 in. long. 

 Fronds linear, 1-1 \ in. long, | in. broad, firm, glabrous, cut down 

 to the racbis into ovate adnate erecto patent pinna?, with a single 

 large globose superficial sorus at the base. Veins forked. — Mount 

 Musgrave, 7000-8000 ft. Allied to P. trichomanoides and exiguum. 

 P. blechnoides Hook. — Near the summit of Owen Stanley range. 

 (Queensland and Polynesia). 



P. obliquatum Blume. — New Guinea highlands, 9200 ft. (South 

 India, Ceylon, Philippines, Malay isles). 



141.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) undosum Baker, n. sp. — 

 Rootstock not seen. Stipe naked, wiry, 1-1 \ in. long. Fronds 

 pendulous, lanceolate, glabrous, simply pinnate, coriaceous, 5-6 in. 

 long, ^ in. broad, cut down to the racbis into numerous adnate 

 non-contiguous obtuse subtrapezoid pinna?, T V-8 ha. broad, deeply 

 crenate, especially on the upper margin. Veins hidden. Soii 

 globose, superficial, wben mature filling nearly the whole surface 

 of the pinna?. — Mount Musgrave. Near P. Grammitidis R. Br. 



168.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) davalliaceum F. M. and 

 Baker, n. sp. — Rbizome short-creeping, J^ in. tbick, clothed with 



^ small brown ovate-lanceolate palea?. Stipes wiry, naked, 1-2 in. 

 long. Fronds coriaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, simply pinnate, 

 6-8 in. long, under an inch broad, cut down to tbe racbis into 

 adnate lanceolate or obliquely cuneate pinna? yv~t^ m - broad, 

 entire or obscurely crenate on the upper edge. Veins hidden. 

 Sori solitary, immersed near the tip of the pinna? with the edge 

 folded round tbem and tbe tip of tbe pinna protruding beyond 

 them. — Mount Victoria and near the summit of the Owen Stanley 



