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acuminate, cimeate at the base, all simple, the side ones erecto- 

 patent, the upper rather decurrent on the racliis, the lowest pair 

 shortly stalked. Main veins ascending, distinct to the edge, J-^ in. 

 apart, enclosing copious small areolae with a few included free 

 veinlets. Sori small, irregularly biserial ; involucre small, 

 glabrous. SiDCcial station not quite certain, probably on the 

 Rewa river, Viti Levu, Home ! Allied to N. Barteri, pachyphyllum, 

 and the last species. 



43.* PoLYPODiuM (Phegopteris) alsophiloides. Baker, n. sp. — 

 Stipe dull brown, .naked, above half a foot long. Frond deltoid, 

 tripinnatifid, 1^-2 feet long, moderately firm in texture, green on 

 both sides, pubescent on both sides on the rachises and principal 

 veins. Pinnae oblong-lanceolate, the lowest the largest, 6-9 in. 

 long, cut down throughout to a very narrowly-winged rachis into 

 lanceolate pinnules -| in. broad, with regular oblong contiguous 

 tertiary segments, which are confluent at the base only. Veins 

 pinnate in the tertiary segments, with simple erecto-patent 3-4- 

 jugate veinlets. Sori small, medial on the ultimate veinlets. 

 Densely Avooded ravine in the mountains between Waiwai and 

 Lomaloma, Vanua Levu, Home, 645 ! Cutting of an Alsopliila, 

 like latehrosa or lunxdata, with a smaller frond and fewer veins to a 

 segment. 



43."^^ PoLYPODiuM (Phegopteris) Gordon:, Baker, n.sp. — Stipites 

 tufted, about a foot long, dull brown, thinly paleaceous up to the 

 top. Frond lanceolate-deltoid, tripinnatifid, l-|-2 feet long, mem- 

 branous, dark green and glabrous on both surfaces, minutely scaly 

 on the main ribs and rachises. Pinnae lanceolate, those two-thirds 

 of the way down the largest, half a foot long, cut down throughout 

 to a distinct narrow wing to the rachis into equal-sided lanceolate 

 pinnules ^ in. broad, with numerous deep linear-oblong obtuse 

 contiguous tertiary segments. Veins pinnate in the tertiary seg- 

 ments, with 2-3-jugate erecto-patent sim^Dle veinlets. Sori small, 

 medial on the veinlets, usually one only to each tertiary segment. 

 Damp, shaded forests in the mountains round Namosi, Viti Levu, 

 Home, 785 ! Eesembles in general habit the small less compound 

 forms of Nephrodium Bonjanum. 



Polypodium ruyulosum, Lab. — Clefts of rocks on the side of 

 an old Fijian fighting -village called Koro Levu, in Walau, at 

 1500-1800 feet. Home, 206 ! Just the ordinary Australian form 

 of the pla,nt. 



Polypodium omatum, Wall. — Fiji ; the special locality not quite 

 certain. 



90.* Polypodium (Dictyopteris) deparioides, Baker, n. sp. — 

 Stipites tufted, a foot long, nearly black, very glossy, quite free 

 from hairs or scales. Frond deltoid, 3-4-pinnatifid, 3-4 feet long, 

 moderately firm, green and glabrous on both surfaces, all the 

 rachises dark brown-black and glossy. Pinnae deltoid, upper 

 sessile, the lowest the largest, distmctly stalked, 1-1^ feet long, 

 ■with stalked deeply i)innatifid lower pinnules, with the lowest 

 tertiary segments again deeply lobed ; ultimate divisions confluent 

 in a broad wing to the rachis, with toothed acute lanceolate lobes. 



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