SEYCHELLES AND THE ALDABRA GROUP, 
419 
—A, caudatum, 
41. ADIANTUM RHIZOPHORUM, Sw.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 66 ; C. Chr. Ind. 33. 
part., Baker, Fl. Maur. 474. 
Seychelles, Pervillé, 212 (fide Kuhn, not seen). 
Southern Africa and adjacent islands. 
42. ACTINIOPTERIS AUSTRALIS (Linn. fil), Link; C. Chr. Ind. 21.—Pteris dichotoma, 
var. elongata, Mett.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 80. P. dichotoma, Baker, Fl. Maur. 481. Acti- 
niopteris dichotoma, Mett.; Kuhn, Bot. v. Ost-Afr. 68. 
Seychelles, Pervillé (fide Kuhn, not seen). 
Distributed from Africa with the South-eastern islands to tropical Asia. 
49. Prerts Barkiym (Hook.), Mett.; Kuhn, Fil Afr. 77 (as Barkleye)—Pellea 
Barklye, Baker, Fl. Maur. 477 ; ©. Chr. Ind. 478. 
Seychelles, Kirk! Lady Barkly! Gardiner | (Mahé). 
Endemic. A very distinct species, the proper place of which must be in the genus 
Pieris. The essential difference between Pellea and Pteris is the different habit; in 
soral characters the two genera agree. In Pellea the sterile tips of the fertile segments 
are entire, in Pteris nearly always distinctly serrated; in this character the present 
species agrees with Pteris. It is perhaps nearest related to Ochropteris pallens (Sw.), 
J. Sm., from the Mascarenes, resembling it closely in cutting, but the sori are truly 
pteridoid and the rachis is purplish and polished. 
44. PTERIS BIAURITA, Linn.; Baker, Fl. Maur. 481; C. Chr. Ind. 593. 
Seychelles (fide Baker, not seen). 
45. PTERIS BIAURITA, Linn., subsp. P. QUADRIAURITA, Retz.; Baker, Fl Maur. 480.— 
P. nemoralis, Willd. ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 86. 
Seychelles, Kersten, 20 (fide Kuhn). Mahé, Gardiner! 
P. biaurita, with its subspecies quadriaurita, is cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
46. PTERIS ATROVIRENS, Willd.; Baker, Fl. Maur. 482; C. Chr. Ind. 593. 
Mahé, Horne, 652 (fide Baker, not seen). m : 
Spread through tropical Africa ; not found in the other islands of the Indian Ocean. 
47. PTERIS TRIPARTITA, Sw.; C. Chr. Ind. 608.— P. marginata, Bory ; Baker, Fl. Maur. 
482. 
Silhouette, Gardiner! Pervillé (fide Kuhn). 
Spread through the tropics of the Old World. 
UG sari . Fl. 
48. Histioprerts INCISA (Thunb.), J. Sm. ; O. Chr. Ind. 352,— Pferis incisa, — 
Maur. 483. : dr 
Mahé, Gardiner! Pervillé, 75 (fide Kuhn). 
Through the tropics and the southern temperate regions. "e 
