28 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
tenella, Kaulfuss, Emeumer Filic.,.t. 1, fig. 7, may not be specifically 
distinct) S. dichotoma is found sparingly from the southern extreme of 
Australia through the littoral eastern regions quite to the remotest 
northern points of the ‘Australian continent; it occurs also in New Cale- 
donia, Fiji, and Samoa, and likewise in Mauritius, according to Lady 
Barkly’s collections. It may exceptionally be seen fruit-bearing when 
hardly two inches high. 
LyGopIuM RETICULATUM (Schkuhr, Farren Kraeuter, 
tab. 139.) 
New HEsrIpDEs. The fronds membraneous, as in plants of this 
species from N. E. Australia. 
ANGIOPTERIS EVECTA (Hoffmann in Comment. Soc. Reg. 
Getting, XU, p. 29, tab. 5.) 
New HEBRIDES. 
ALSOPHILA LUNULATA (R. Brown, Prodr. 158.) 
New Hesripes. A. decurrens (Hooker, Spec. Filic., 1., 51, and 
Cyathea propinqua, Mettenius in Miquel, Azmal, Mus. Bot. Lugd. 
Batav., 3., 56) occur in a collection of ferns kindly gathered and com- 
municated by Captain Fraser, the commander of the mission ship ‘‘Day- 
spring.” Several other tree ferns are known already from these isles, 
and others remain likely to be discovered. The characteristics, however, 
of the stems, generally very distinctive, are ascertained in but few 
cases. 
POLYPODIUM ACROSTICHOIDES (G. Forster, Alor. Insul. Austr. 
Prodr, p. 81.) 
New HEBRIDES, 
PoLypopium PHymatTopes (Linné, AMantiss. Plant, 306.) 
New HEsRIDES. 
POLYPODIUM RIGIDULUM (Swartz, Synops. Filic., p. 34.) 
New Hesripes. The magnificent P. conjugatum (Kaulfuss, Das 
Wesen der Farn, Kraeuter, p. 104) was found in the group by Capt. 
Fraser. 
ASPIDIUM EXALTATUM (Swartz, Synops. Filic., p. 45.) 
New HEsrIDEs. 
