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range. A very distinct and curious plant, receding from typical 

 Polypodium in the direction of Davallia, section Prosaptia. 



212.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) bipinnatifidum Baker, 

 n. sp. — Eootstock not seen. Stipe very slender, 1A-2 in. long, 

 clothed with fine spreading brown hairs. Frond oblong-lanceo- 

 late, bipinnatifid, pendent, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 5-6 in. long, 

 an inch broad. Pinna? distant, linear, cut down to a narrowly- 

 winged rachis into small ovate or oblong lobes, each containing a 

 single vein and a single globose superficial sorus. — Near the summit 

 of the Owen Stanley range. Near P. turulosum Baker in Hook., Ic. 

 t. 1673, and P. pozozuense Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 1672. 



P. nigrescens Blume. — Mount Musgrave. (India to Queensland 

 and Polynesia). 



P. Dipteris Blume. — Mount Knutsford. (Malay and Polynesian 

 isles). 



P. triquetrum Blume ? — Near the summit of the Owen Stanley 

 range. (Malay and Polynesian isles). A plant gathered at 

 9200 ft. on Mount Musgrave with large uniserial sori filling up 

 nearly the whole under surface of a paleaceous lanceolate fertile 

 frond under half an inch broad, may be a contracted montane 

 variety of this species. 



Gymnogramme caudiformis Hook. — Mount Knutsford. (India to 

 Tahiti). 



Vittaria elongate), Sw. — Near the summit of the Owen Stanley 

 range. (Tropical regions of the Old World). 



V. liveata Sw. — Mount Musgrave. (Warmer regions of both 

 hemispheres). 



Tcenitis blechnoides Sw. — Mount Knutsford. (India to Poly- 

 nesia). 



Acrostichum bicuspe Hook. — Mount Knutsford. (Java and 

 Formosa). 



ScHIZCEACE.E. 



Schizcea dichotoma Sw. — Mount Musgrave. (Widely spread in 

 both Old and New World). 



LYCOPODIACE.2E. 



Li/copodium Hamiltonii Spreng. — Near the summit of the Owen 

 Stanley range. (India, Ceylon, West China). 



371 . Lycopodium Macgregori Baker, n. sp. — Stem slender, 

 pendulous, copiously dichotomously forked, a foot or more long. 

 Leaves lax, ascending, lanceolate, acute, moderately firm, bright 

 green, £ in. long. Sporangia placed in the axils of the unaltered 

 upper leaves. — Mount Knutsford. Nearest the common Tropical 

 American L. linifoiium L. 



L. vertirillatuia L. — Mount Musgrave. (Widely spread in both 

 hemispheres). 



L. squarrusum Forst. — Mount Musgrave. (Tropics of the Old 

 World). 



L. varium B. Br. — Mount Musgrave. (Australia and New 

 Zealand). 



