Grammitis.] CXLYII. FILICES. 777 
Brackenr. Filic. U. S, Expl. Exped. t. 8; Dictyogramme pinnata, T. 
Moore ; Bail. Queensl. Ferns, 33. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, W. Hil, Dallaehy. 
Also in the Malayan Archipelago and South Pacific Islands. 
. G. ampla, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 188.— Rhizome rather thick, 
sealy, creeping. Fronds 1 to 2 ft. high, deeply pinnatifid, glabrous. 
Segments 3 to 11, lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long, 1 to l in. broad when 
fertile, often 2 in. when barren, acuminate, membranous, entire, 
dually tapering below the lowest pair but continued almost to the base of 
the stipes. Veins proceeding from the midrib immediately forked, one 
branch bearing a straight linear sorus exten ing usually to the mar- 
gin, the other prominent flexuose with anastomosing branches, and from 
both are emitted a few short free branches. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
Included by Baker, Syn. Filic. 389-390 in the Asiatic Gymnogramme (Grammitis) 
elliptica, Bak. (Polypodium, Thunb.), but the further specimens in Herb. F. Mueller, 
have convinced him that it differs essentially in the membranous texture, 
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continuously winged rhachis and stipes, the longer sori, more prominent intermediate 
36, ANTROPHYUM, Kault, 
lanceolate or broad, with 
hizome creeping. Fronds simple, entire, x 1 
bearing long linear sori 
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longitudinal more or less anastomosing veins, 
without any indusium. 
i over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. 
The ee oee oie is Asiatic, aati to the Pacific Islands. 
1. A. reticulatum, Kaulf. ; Hook. Spec. Filie. v. 169 ; Syn. Filie. 
393.— Rhizome hairy, creeping. Fronds 6 in. to 1 ft. long, L to 1j in. 
o nearly 2 in. broad, acuminate, tapering into a short stipes, 
glabrous, rather firm, the veins prominent on the upper surface forming 
: Sori all longitudinal, narrow-linear but varying 
length.— Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 52 and 231; A. 
ail. Queensl. Ferns, 33. 
W. Hill, Dallachy ; Bowen, Woolls ; Daintree 
much in number and 
plantagineum, Kaulf. ; B 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, 
River, Fitzalan. 
7 hich F. Mueller, Fragm. v 
A. semicostatum, Blume, Fl. J 7, t. 33, to w rae en dime srt 
138 this plant, is a form or variety with a larger frond broader 
mid 2€ ET sag nian specimens agree the typical A. reticulatum as 
figured by Schkuhr, Syn. Filic. t. 6. 
