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4- W. T. L. Travers, Esq. 

 New Zealand. 

 Received from the Herbarium, Ro3'al Gardens, Kew. 

 Polypodium rupestre Br. 



5. Herb. D. Petri. 

 PoH'podium serpens P'orst. 

 Dunedin. N.-Seeland. 



6. Polypodium Serpens Forst. 

 R. Helms Greymouth N. Z. 

 August 187g. Neuseeland. 



7. Herbar. H. Christ. Basil. 

 Polypodium (Niphobolus) serpens Forst. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



Leg. 1887. Helms. 



8. Herbarium Regium Monacense. 

 Niphobolus serpens Forst. 

 Neuseeland. 



1898. leg, K. Goebel. 



g. Herbarium Reg'ium Monacense. 

 Polypodium serpens Forst. 

 New Zealand, Grey. 

 Legt. R. Helms Esq. 1882 — 83. 

 lo. Herbarium Zuccarinii. 

 Legit. in Nova Zeelandia. 



L. B. de Hügel. 

 Communicavit M. C. Vindob. anno 183g. 



No. 50. Niphobolus Lauterbachii. 



Diagnose aus Christs Filiccs in Scliumann und Lauterbach, 

 Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Südsee. 



Ex affinitate P. linearifolii (Hook) Giesenh. sed fronchbus dimorphis 

 sorisque submarginalibus di\ersum. 



Rhizomate longe repente filiformi sed firmo vix i mm diametro, 

 squamis subulatis pallidis tenuiter adsperso, frondibus sparsis sterilibus spathu- 

 lato-ovatis sive lanceolatis brevibus obtusis integris stipite i ad 2 cm longo 

 tenui, lamina 1,5 ad 2,5 cm longa, 0,5 cm lata obtusa rigide coriacea costa 

 et nervis inconspicuis; areolis oblongis nervulis aliquot liberis inclusis. Fron- 

 dibus fertilibus longioribus ; stipite i ad 2 cm longa, lamina ligulato-lineari 

 (j ad 8 cm longa, 2 ad 3 cm lata apice acutiuscuk) sive caudato, costa 

 nervisque aeque inconspicuis, sinuato-crenatis, soris submarginalibus, spatio 

 a costa separatis rotundatis dentes occupantibus, i mm et ultra diametro, 



