SEYCHELLES AND THE ALDABRA GROUP. 413 
8. E. Neq (Linn.) O. Kuntze; C. Chr. Ind. 282.— Nephrodium molle, 
Mahé, Horne, 202! 
The species taken in a broad sense is common in all tropical and subtropical regions. 
The form growing in the Seychelles is scarcely conspecific with the common A idis 
D. mollis (Jacq.), Hieron. 
9. DRYOPTERIS CUCULLATA (Blume), Christ, Philippine Journ. Sci. Bot. ii. 194, 1907.— 
Nephrodium cucullatum, Baker, Fl. Maur. 498. Dryopteris unita (Linn.), O. Kuntze ; 
C. Chr. Ind. 299. 
Mahé, Silhouette, and Long Island, Gardiner! ‘Typical fern of open spaces, 
1000-2000 feet. 
Distribution. Through tropical Asia and Polynesia, and common in the South-east 
African islands. 
10. DRYOPTERIS MAURITIANA (Fée), C. Chr.—Nephrodium elatum, var. mauritianum, 
Baker, Fl. Maur. 499.—Aspidium procerum, Bojer; Kuhn, Bot. v. Ost-Afrika, 41 
(with description). 
Var. GARDINERI, C. Chr. (var. nov.). 
. À forma typica differt: pinnis brevioribus, ad 12 cm. longis 2 cm. basi latis, atro- 
viridibus, tenuiter membranaceis, ad costas costulasque supra albido-setosis, infra 
breviter et sparse hirtis, inter venas utrinque glabris, infra glandulis sessilibus 
subdense glandulosis; laciniis vix obliquis, obtusis; venis 8-10-jugis, pellucidis, 
basalibus 2-4 alternatim unitis ; éndusiis magnis, glabris. 
Silhouette, Gardiner, Aug. 2, 1908. Mahé, ZI. P. Lhomasset (this is more like the 
type). 
The typical form of D. mauritiana was found previously in the Mascarenes and 
Comoros. The species is new to the Seychelles. The single leaf collected measures 
l} m. in length on a stipe scarcely 10 cm. long ; it narrows downwards rather gradually 
i 2 cm. long and broad, and hastate. it 
through about 15 pairs of auriculiform pinnæ, $- | 
differs from the type mainly in the glandular underside ani its patent, ponte. pM. 
The pinnæ taper from a broad base towards the acuminate apex.—l am inclined to 
believe that 4spidium elatum, Bojer, from Mauritius is specifically distinct. 
ll. Dryorreris WARDIL ( Baker), O. Kuntze; C. Chr. Ind. ae de given Wardii, 
Baker, Trans. R. Irish Acad. xxv. (1875), tab. 30 fedem 496. 
Mahé, Ward! Horne, 177! Gardiner! Silhouette, Gardiner * 
‘Endemic. Rhizome horizontal, about 2 em. thick, densely covered with shit i 
narrow acuminate scales, 1-2 em. long. Stipe about 25 cm. long, slightly sca 7 "s " 
base. Lamina about 50 em. long, 40 cm. broad at the base, entirely glabrous. In habi 
merica. 
not unlike D. effusa (Sw.), Urban, of tropical A 
