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24. LiNDSATA KiRKiT, Hook. ; Baker, Traus. R. Irish Acad. xxv. (1875), tab. 28 ; El. 



Maur. 473 ; C. Chr. Ind. 394.— i. Fervillei, Mett. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 17 et 68. 

 Mah4 Gardiner ! Thomasset. Silhouette, Gardiner ! 



Endemic. A large pretty species, common in the islands, growing on the ground and 

 often partially epiphytic. 



25. LiNDSATA HoENEi (Baker), C. Chr. Ind. 210 (omitted under Lindsaya). — Davallia 



Sornei, Baker, Fl. Maur. 470. 



Mahe, Some, 677 ! 



Endemic, comraovi fide Home, but not collected by Gardiner. It is a true Lindsaya, but 

 a rather problematic species. It is, perhaps, a small form of L. Kirkii, with which it 

 agrees in soral characters and basal scales ; still the shape of the segments is somewhat 

 different, their lower edge being much upcurved while in L. Kirkii it is decurved. 



26. D1PLA.ZIUM SECHELLARUM (Baker), C. Chr. Ind. 288. — Asplenium sechellarum. Baker, 



Fl. Maur. 491. 



Mah^ Bouton ! Some ! " Common in the damp shady forests," but not collected by j 



Prof. Gardiner. 



According to Baker also found in Madagascar. It is a large, tripinnatifld species, 

 related to the Asiatic I). polyi:)odioides, Blume, characterized by the muricated rachis. 



27. Asplenium nidus, Linn. ; Baker, Fl. Maur. 491 ; C. Chr. Ind. 123. 

 Mahe, Gardiner ! Thomasset ! Silhouette, Gardiner ! 

 Distribution. Through tropical Polynesia, Australia, and Asia, extending westwards 



to tropical West Africa. 



28. Asplenium unilaterale, Lam.; C. Chr. Ind. 136. — A. resectum, Sm. ; Baker, Fl. 



Maur. 485. 

 Seychelles, Kirk ! 

 Distribution. Through the tropics of the Old World. 



29. Asplenium lunulatum, Sw. ; Baker, Fl. Maur. 486. 

 Mahe, Home, 404 (not seen). 

 Distribution. Regarded as a collective species, A. lunulatuni is widely spread through 



the tropics ; the typical form is South African. 



30. Asplenium tenerum, Forst. ; Baker, Fl. Maur. 486; C. Chr. Ind. 134. 

 Mah6, Home, 684 ! 

 Spread through tropical Polynesia and Asia ; it is not known from the other African 



islands. 



31. Asplenium (Euasplenium) complanatum, C. Chr. (sp. nov.). (PI. 25, figs. 1-3.) 

 Ehizoma obliquum, fere 1 cm. crassum, squamis parvis, ovatis, nigrescentibus, subdense 



onustum. Stijntes numerosi, subapproximati, virides, glabri, complanati, supra late 



