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which I preserve because he intends to employ them in a distribution 

 •and use them for after-reference. 



199 ex parte (52'*). Cyithea WarTMEEr, B'lher, n. sp. Frond ample, 

 tripinnate. Rachises pale brown, unarmed and quite naked. 

 Pinnre oblong-lanceolate, li-2 feet long, 8-10 inches broad. Pin- 

 nules sessile, lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into ligulate 

 deeply incisocrenate tertiary segments ^ inch broad. Veinlets 

 10-12-jugate, erecto-patent, deeply forked. Texture membranous ; 

 both surfaces naked except numerous small pale ballate scales 

 scattered on. the under side. Sori medial, 8-10 to a pinna. 

 Involucre large, pale, campanulate, persistent, the mouth nearly 

 entire. Involucre and buUate scales like tliose of C. Uucolepis, 

 but the texture of the frond different, and the tertiary segments 

 much smaller and deeply inciso-crenate. 

 199 ex parte (52*). CrATHEA scabra, Baher, n. sp. Frond ample, 

 tripinnate. Rachises castaneous, glabrous, scaleless, scabrous 

 with dense raised points. Pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 1^-2 feet 

 long, 8-10 inches broad. Pinnules sessile, lanceolate, |-1 inch 

 broad, cut down to the rachis into ligulate deeply crenate ter- 

 tiary segments ^ inch 'broad. Veinlets 10-15-jugate, deeply 

 forked, erecto-patent, distinct. Texture moderately firm ; both 

 surfaces and rachises nearly free from hairs or scales. Sori 

 10-16 to a segment, ultimately filling the whole surface except 

 the tip. Involucre large, membranous, breaking up irregularly. 

 22. Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, Sm. 

 13. polyanthos, Sw. 



30. Trichomanes pallidum, Bhime. 

 17. muscoides, Sw. 



7. Dicksonia Brackenridgei, Mett. 

 208. moluccana, Blume. 



200. straminea. Lab. 



217. Davallia plumosa. Baker. This time in fruit, which was pre- 

 viously unknown. The involucres are of the Eudavallia type, 

 cylindrical, quite immersed and not very close to one another. 

 36. Davallia botrychioides. Brack. 

 35. pectinata, Smith. 



47, tenuifolia, Smith. 



226. elata, Sw. 

 229. repens, Desv. 



9. moluccana, Blume. 



227. Lindsaya lobata, Poir. 



54. Adiantum diaphanum, Blume. 



180. Pteris patens. Hook. This is wrongly placed tinder Campteria 

 in the *' Synopsis." It really belongs to the section Eupteris. 



179. Pteris Wallichiana, Agardh. New to Polynesia. 

 178. incisa, Thiinh. 



181. Lomaria lanceolata, Spreng. 

 148. procera, Spreng. 



68. Blechnum orientale, Linn. 



76. Asplenium tenerum, Forst. 

 183. laserpitiifolium, Lam. 



i^]3 (199*). (Athyrium) oosorum, Baker, n. sp. Fronds ample, 



