298 FERNS OF FIJI. 



Veins -fiue, one main vein central in each ultimate segment, with 

 copious intervening irregular areolae with free included veinlets. 

 Sori small, globose, superficial, placed on distinct projecting teeth, 

 several to each ultimate segment (6-12 to a segment ^-^ in. long). 

 Common in the forests between Naquave and Nukusari, Viti Levu, 

 Home ! A scrap of this gathered by Milne has laid for many 

 years amongst the doubtful ferns of the Kew herbarium. It is a 

 most curious and anomalous plant with a close afiinity with the 

 New Caledonian Deparia [Cionidium) Muorei, but I cannot find any 

 vestige of an involucre. 



Puh/podiwn cucuUatum, Blume. — Damp shaded forests in the 

 district of Navosi, Viti Levu ; not uncommon, Home, 1026 ! New to 

 Fiji, but known already in Samoa, wdiere Mr. Home also found it. 



169."^'" PoLYPODiujr (Eupolypodium) Hornei, Baker, n. sp. — 

 Rhizome short-creeping ; scales small, dense, dull brown, lanceo- 

 late, cihated. Stipites contiguous, very short, densely pubescent. 

 Frond lanceolate, simply pinnate, 6-8 in. long, 1-1^ in. broad at 

 the middle, narrowed gradually to both ends, firm in texture, soon 

 curling up when gathered, green and nearly glabrous on both 

 surfaces, slightly hairy and furnished with a few black linear- 

 subulate scales on the midrib beneath, cut down to the rachis into 

 crowded adnate pinnae. Pinnae 40-50 on a side, linear, enth-e, 

 ^V-^ in. broad, narrowed gradually from the base to an obtuse 

 point, the lower ones gradually dwindling down to mere auricles. 

 Veins obscure, simple, erecto-patent, 15-16-jugate in the central 

 pinnae. Sori small, round, superficial, medial. Forests between 

 Nadrau and Babuca, Viti Levu, and also in the mountauis of 

 Ovalau, in both cases at about 1000 feet elevation, Home, 369 ! 

 Allied to hlechnoides and decorum. 



Fohjpodinm limjucBforme, Mett. — Common on Voma peak and 

 other mountains near Namosi, Viti Levu, Home, 768 ! 



361." PoLYPODiuM (Phymatodes) vitiense, Baker, n. sp. — ■ 

 Ehizome woody, flexuose, ^ in. diam., clothed when young with 

 round small imbricated peltate brown scales. Stipites 4-6 in. long, 

 distant, naked, stramineous. Frond rhomboid, 6-12 in. long, 

 3-6 in. broad, simply pinnatifid, cut down within ^-^ in. of the 

 rachis into 6-8 pairs of ascending entire acute lanceolate pinnae, 

 -I in. broad at the base, narrowed gradually to the tip, membranous 

 in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces. Veins fine, the 

 main ones not distinct more than half way from the midiib to the 

 margin, the ultimate areolae small, copious, with free included 

 veinlets. Sori small, superficial, forming a single row ^-^ in. 

 ai)art, nearer the midrib than the margin of the segments. Rocks 

 on the banks of the river at Nadrau, in Viti Levu, in a gorge about 

 600 feet deep. Home, 950! Near the Sainoan P. Foivellii, and 

 New Zealand P. BiUardieri. 



1."'' Meniscium Beccarianum, Ccsati, Fil. Beccar. Polyn., p. 8. 

 — Rhizome slender, woody, short-creeping. Stipites contiguous, 

 dull brown, 8-4 in. long, clothed with minute squarrosc linear- 

 subr.late scales. Lamina lanceolate, simple or with a imir of 

 .'etachc'd auricles at the base, 9-12 in. long, 1-2 in. broad at the 



