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NEW FIJI FERNS. 188 
large, glabrous, fargo tnt Baeigeati —-A large tree- “ns like 
Lastrea, allied to the Sam N. arborescens Baker, with pinne 
like whole unde of N. paiteak 
186.* Nephrodium (Eunersnoprom) decadens, n. sp.— 
drab, finely pubescent, 8~4 in. long. Fronds oblong. tdpollae 
long, 4-5 in. b re) 
half-way down to the fable bigs ‘close obione entire lobes oe 12th in. 
road. Veins simple, 5-6-jugate, only the lowest pair distinctly 
united apart from the sinus. Sori small, medial on the veins. 
Indusium minute, fugacious. — Inter mediate between N. seg 
and N. molle. Nearly allied to the Philippine N. ae ular 
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medial, superficial, rea aching from the base to the tip of the seg- 
ments, 14-16 to the central segments.—Allied to the New Caledonian 
- crassifrons and the Himalayan P. khasyanum. 
SHORT NOTE. 
Oxcuts Morio witn two Cotumns.—Early in May I oe up a 
specimen ‘of this Orbis: with a double ataes Duplication of parts 
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component parts of the column. But abiaalicoh of the latter must 
be explained in another way. Both in the presen nt instance were of 
equal size _ appearance, each bearing an anther eee two 
Pollen masses, and were ee about half-wa the base. 
Both diverged from the same point with their tribe evidently 
formed <b the splitting or division of one vascular bu bundle. In one 
anther ollen masses were perfect, with their caudicles united 
been held by the eine ans the passage towards 
solitary pouch-shaped rostellum. The flower a as a whole was large, 
but otherwise normal in all its parts. —J. 
