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anthers. Stigmas 3, short, spreading. Ovary 3-celled, maturing but 
1 seed, the other 2 abortive. Fruit oval, nearly 3-in. long, but not 
seen ripe ‘ 
Hab.: Beilenden-Ker, at an altitude of about 4,000 feet (Palm Camp), 
Bellenden-Ker Expedition, 1889. 
n many respects this plant resembles Hydriastele Wendlandiana. I have, 
however, thought it advisable to keep it under Aveca for the present, hoping to 
receive better specimens, those I collected being much damaged by wet. The 
tree will be remembered as having been specially referred to in Mr. Meston’s 
report of the expedition. 
Order RESTIACEA, 
LEPTOCARPUS, RK. Br. 
and acuminate, the inner broader inner, and almost obtuse. 
Stamens 3. Female flowers in globular clusters, styles free.—Flora 
Austr. le. in part. 
ab. : Mus rave E. T. Station, Cape York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson. 
: These specimens evidently belong to the above Port Darwin plant, but I found 
0 stamen and only immature fruit 
Order FILICES. 
Trine HYMENOPHYLLE. 
r TRICHOMANES, Linn. 
_ + Muscoides, Sw. Rhizome creeping, tomentose, and like most 
small forms densely matted. Fronds from ¢ to ? in. long, 
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ian eats of the upper lobes of the frond, the mouth alone free, 
“So ata is rather large and undulate. Receptacle of medium 
— A Barron River, on wood, C. J. Wild. : 
in its St eras plant only differs from the species described from other parts 
ri ROEEIi, Bedd., Verns of Brit. Ind. Pl. 286. Rhizome filiform, 
Fiess tomentose. Fronds with stipes scarcely exceeding 3-In. 
NO lateral yo! arrow-linear, obtuse or almost acute, with costules but 
slightly 1 veins. Indusium sunk in the end of the lobe, mouth 
f ee Receptacle short. 
The Austrat: C.J. Wild. ee 
the lobin f ralian plant only differs from the above in the greater regularity o 
. 5% the fronds, which resemble a minute pinnate leaf. 
— Wilaii (a. 7 ae Rhizome slender, tomentose, forming dense masses 
. Fron including stipes about 1 in. high, pinnate, with 
