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black fibres." Kze. in Schk. Fil. Siippl. ii. p. 12. /. 105, and 

 in Fil. Zollinf/. Bat. Zcit. 184R, S. 144. — Woochvardia dives, 

 Metten. Fil. llnrt. Lijts. p. 66. — /3. Zcij/aniatm; stipes and 

 rachis and paleaceous scales brown, frond long-caudate at 

 tbe apex, segments of the fertile frond very distant linear- 

 oblong alato-decurrent. 



Hal). Java, ZuUinger.—^. Ceylon, Mrs. Gen. Walker, Gardner, n. 180G.— I 

 am not so fortunate as to possess Java specimens of this plant, but I have copious 

 specimens of a Doodia from Ceylon, of which the sterile frond exactly correspontls 

 with the figure of Kunze ahove quoted, and one or two of the fertile sufliciently 

 accord witli the figure of that state of the plant ; hut the majority of the latter 

 have the segments often nearly an inch apart, and not cuneately dccurrent, but 

 suddenly, so as to form a broad wing-like expansion to the rachis, except the 

 lowest ones, which are always free, and either lobed at the base above, or on both 

 sides so as to he hastate. The wings of the rachis bear sori as well as the seg- 

 ments and pinnjo. — As a species, this has a close affinity with the larger state of 

 D. media of Brown and this work, but the present is more truly pinnatitid, two 

 or three of the lowest pairs only being free and more or less petiolatc, and these 

 not at all dccurrent. In all my specimens the sori are in two series. 



{Pinnate : pinnatifid above.) 



4. D. media, Br. ; caudex short stout ascending clothed 

 with black subulate scales as is the black base of the smooth 

 stipes which is 3-5 inches long, fronds rigid tufted a span to 

 a foot long nearly ixniform more or less lanceolate piimatifid in 

 theupj)er half (or less) the rest pinnate, segments and pinncc 

 approximate spinuloso-dcntate very patent, the former from 

 a broad and sometimes dccurrent base linear-oblong attenu- 

 ated generally obtuse, terminal one mostly elongated subcor- 

 date, pinna; of the same shape as the segments but the lowest 

 ones are the most distant and more or less auricled at the 

 base al)ove, rachis smooth, sori in one series. — Br. Prod. 

 Nov. HoU. ]j. 151. D. Kunthiana, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 

 J9. 401. t. 14. Woodwardia lunulata, Metten. Fil. Hort. Bot. 

 Lips. p. 66 {who quotes Doodia lunulata, Br. Prodi: p. 7- cd. 

 Germ.) . 



Ilab. Australia, Tropical New Holland, Banks, in Br. Prodr. Endeavour River, 

 All. Cunninyham ; shady places, Port Jackson, Eraser, »i. 285; Snowy River, Aus- 

 tralian Alps, F. Mueller. Norfolk Island, Allan Cunningham, M' William (one 

 specimen passing into D. connexa, Kze.), Simmons, Milne. New Zealand, Nor- 

 thern Island, Fraser, Lor/an, Allan Cunningham, Colenso, J. D. Hooker (smaller 

 more caudate, approaching D. caudata, but very rigid). Oahu, Beechey, Douglas, 

 ^eemaiin, n. 2237. S. S. Isles, Bennett. Ovolau, Fiji Islands, Milne. — Without 

 having been privileged to see an authentic specimen of Mr. Brown's D. media, I 

 have selected a Doodia which I know Mr. Allan Cunningham considered should 

 liear that name, and which I believe to be identical with the /). Kunthiana of 

 flaudichaud, and certainly specimens from the locality of (laudichaud's plant, 



