300 NOVUM ARISTOLOCHIE.E SPECIEM. 



Fil., vol. v., -p. 152, tab. 298, a plant kuowu only in a barren state, 

 is an abnormal form of this species. 



Acrostichum Blumcanum, Hook. — The type and also a fully 

 bipinnate variety in clamp shady forests at Vienuga, Yiti Levu, 

 Home, 807 ! Mr. Home's specimens materially extend the range 

 of variation known for this species, and render it almost certain 

 that my Acrostichum cultratum (Syn. Fil. edit., p. 524), from the 

 Solomon Isles, is an abnormal form of it, with the pinnae cut 

 down to the rachis into round- quadrangular segments. 



Acrostichum f/orgoneiwi, Kaulf ? — "Woods near Navusa, on the 

 Eewa river, Viti Levu. The specimens are not in fruit, and it is 

 likely may prove to be a distinct sx)ecies from the Sandwich Island 

 plant, a near ally of which [A. savaiense, Baker) has lately been 

 discovered in Samoa. 



Selaiiinella latifolia, Spreng. — Forests in the mountains of 

 Koro-i-vono, Vanua Levu, and on the Navua river, Viti Levu, 

 Home, 538 ! 842 ! New to Polynesia. 



S. viridangula, Spreng. in Obs. Plant. Nov. Herb. Van Heurck, 

 p. 29. Gathered in several places. Home, 417 ! 468 ! 537 ! 



Mr. Home has also added Marsilea to the Fijian flora, but I am 

 not certain as to the species. 



NOVAM ARISTOLOCHI^ SPECIEM 



describit Henr. F. Hance, Ph.D., e Societate Linnaeana 

 Londinensi, etc. 



ARisTOLOcmA (Sijjhisia) mollissima, sp. nov. — Caulibus scanden- 

 tibusincano-lanosis, foliis cordato-ovatis obtusiusculis sinu angusto 

 obtuso auriculas rotundatas separante supra sericeo-tomentosis 

 subtus cano lanatis basi i^edati- superne peuni-nerviis lucique ob- 

 versis dense reticulatis 2|-3^ poll, longis li-2f poll, latis petiolo 

 pollicari, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis sericeo-lanosis petiolo 

 brevioribus supra medium bractea ovata supra pubescenti subtus 

 Icinosa ad auctis, flore erecto pollicari, ovario clavato dense lanoso, 

 pcrigonii extus lanosi intus glaberrimi venisque purpureis reticu- 

 latis picti utriculo oblongo-ovali apice refracto et in tubum eo bre- 

 viorem producto limbo orbiculari-trilobo lobis latis acutiusculis, 

 columna stylina obtuse triloba, antherarum catervis distantibus. 



In collibus Feng-wang shan, prope Shang-hae, die 13, Maii, 

 1877, invenit amic. F. B. Forbes. (Herb, propr. n. 20719). 



Pulcherrima, sane, et ab omnibus orientali-asiaticis apprime 

 distincta species, vix dubie proximam sibi vindicans necessitudi- 

 nem cum A. tomentosa, Sims, ex Americas septentrionalis civitati- 

 bus foederatis australioribus oriunda. 



