10 ON A COLLECTION OF FERNS MADE IN SAMOA. 



12, 14 (21*). HrMENOPHYLLUM sAMOENSE, Baker, n. sp. Rhizome 

 filiform, wide-creeping. Stipes 2-3 inches lon;^, naked, winged in 

 the upper half. Lamina oblong-deltoid or rhomboid, tripinnatifid. 

 • Rachis furnished with a narrow, uncrisped wing. Pinnae, ex- 

 cluding the simple upper ones, 6- 10-jugate, ascending or patu- 

 lous, the 2-3 lowest pairs about equal in size or lowest reduced, 

 cut down into a few distant, ligulate, divaricating, erecto-patent 

 lobes 1-3 lines long, with a single central nerve. Surfaces free 

 from hairs, and teeth none. Sori terminal on the lateral seg- 

 ments of the pinna). Involucral-valves oblong, nearly a line 

 long, twice as broad as the tip of the segment, free from one 

 another down to the base, faintly toothed round the tip. Ap- 

 proaches closely the non-crispate forms of H.javanicum. 



15. Hymenophyllum multifidum, Sw. 



23. Tunbridgense, Sin. 

 21. Trichomanes Filicula, Xaw//! 



20. digitatum, Sw. 



18. parvulum, Poir. 



32. peltatum. Baker. 



24. javanicum, Blume. 

 31. caiidatum, Brack. 



27. gemmatum, J. Smith. 



28, 29. maximum, Blume. 

 26, apiifolium, Presl. 

 8. Dicksonia Brackenridgei, Ilett. 



51. samoensis, Baker. Known to us in England before only 



by Brackenridge's excellent figure. 

 34. Davallia heterophylla, Smith. 



38. Emersoni, Hook. jN^ew to Polynesia. 

 37, contigua, Sw. 



40 (34*). PLUMOSA, Baker, n, sp. (section EiidavaUia). Rhizome 

 wide-trailing, as thick as a quill, densely clothed with dark brown, 

 spreading, hair-like scales 3-4 lines long. Stipes dull brown, 

 naked, firm, erect, 3-6 inches long. Lamina deltoid, half a foot 

 long, tripinnatifid, smooth, naked, glossy, subcoriaceous, like its 

 allies turning brown when dried. Lower pinna) much the largest, 

 stalked, deltoid. Ultimate divisions linear-ligulate, cuneate at 

 the base, the largest 2-2|- inches long, | inch broad, cut about 

 halfway down to the rachis into a series of close, regular, 

 erectopatent, blunt, often emarginatc lobes. Veins fine, im- 

 mersed, obscure, erecto-patent, 1 or 2 running into each ulti- 

 mate lobe. Sori not seen. Midway between pentaphylla and 

 solida. 



39. Davallia pallida, Mett. (D. Mooreana, Masters, Gard. Chron., 



1864, p. 964, cum icone). Fine specimens sent by Mr. Whitmee 

 from Savaii. Gathered by Macgillivray in Aneitcum, and intro- 

 duced recently by Messrs. Veitch into cultivation. 



41, 43b, 44. Davallia solida, Sw. Varieties. 



43a. elata, Sw. (epiphylla, Foist.) 



46. moluccana, Blume. 



172. Speluuca^, Baker. 



49. stolonifera, Baker. 



