578 ALEXANDER W EVANS 



Hymenophytum Dumort. 



18. H. flabellatuin (Labill.j Dumort. Recueil d'Obs. sur les Jung. 25 

 (1835); Evans, Bull. Torrey Club 52:504 {1925). — Syn. yungennannia flabel- 

 laia Labill. Nov. Holland. Spec. PI. 2: 109 (1806); HyuienophyUini pedicellatum 

 Steph. Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 46^: ii f. 2 a (191 1); Syrnphyogyna 

 integerrima Steph. op. cit. 13, f. 2 e (191 1). 



On rocks in ravines and in beds of streams. 



Masafuera: bank of a brook, 1000 m., Skottsberg 1908 (no. 43, cited 

 by Steph.-^NI, 13, as Syniphyogyna integerrima\ cited also, 14, as SympJiyogyna 

 sp.); Q. del Mono, narrow, dark ravine, 570 m. (no. 58); Q. de las Casas, moist 

 rocks near the brook, 200 m. (no. 59); O. del Blindado, moist rocks in forest, 

 440 m. (no. 60); brook just below Campo Correspondencia, 11 20 m. (no. 61); 

 the High Plateau, bed of small stream, iioo m. (no. 62). 



Area of distribution: Australia; Tasmania; New Zealand: New Caledonia; 

 Fiji Islands; Colombia; Chile; Masafuera. 



Syniphyogyna Nees & Mont. 



19. S. circinata Nees & Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. II. 5: 18 (1836); 

 Evans, Trans. Connecticut Acad. 28: 338 (1927). — Syn. .V. canaliculata Steph. 

 Mem. Herb. Boissier 11: 336. (1900), in part; i'. dccumbens Steph. Kungl. Svenska 

 Vet.-Akad. Handl. 46^: 12 (1911). 



On rocks and trees. 



Masatierra: without definite locality, Bertero (1830), type; Pangal, water- 

 fall, outside the rush, 205 m. (no. 63); Pangal, on stones in the spray, 205 m. 

 (no. 64); high ridge south of Pangal, on tree ferns (no. 65); S. slope of Co. 

 Chumacera, Boehvicria forest (no. ^6). 



Masafuera: Q. de las Casas, Skottsberg, 1908 (no. 42), cited by Stephani, 

 p. 14, as SympJiyogyna sp.; same locality, 1908 (no. 42 a); cave near beach, 

 near Q- de las Casas (no. 6'j\, Q. de las Vacas (no. 68). 



Area of distribution: Chile; Juan Fernandez. 



20. S. Hochstetteri Nees & Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. II. 5: 17 (1835); 

 Evans, Trans. Connecticut Acad. 27: 21 (1925). 



On rocks, stones, and shaded soil. 



Masatierra: without definite localities, Bertero, 1830, and MoSELEV, 

 Challenger Expedition. Porto Frances, on earth and stones in forest, 500 m. 

 (no. 69); Q. Damajuana, waterfall, 248 m. (no. 70, 71); Anson Valley, near 

 Plazoleta, on stones (no. 72); El Yunque, N. slope, on stones, 400 — 500 m. (no. 

 73); B. Cumberland, Pico Central, 390 m. (no. 74); B. Cumberland, caves IV, 

 V, and VI, mostly on the walls (no. 75, y6, yj, 78, 79); Portezuelo, ravine on 



