CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUEENSLAND FLORA 3 
Order FILICES. 
MARATTIA, Sm. 
M, oreades, Domin, Prodr. p. 219. From the description 
this can hardly be separated from that very variable species 
M. fraxinea, Sm. 
TRICHOMANES, Linn. 
T. paradoxum, Domin, Prodr. p. 10. Rhizome elongate, 
slender, creeping over the trunks of trees. Fronds somewhat 
rigid, minute, crowded, sessile or nearly so, about 13 lme 
long or rather more, ovate-orbicular, base subcordate, un- 
divided but with a sinuate margin ; glabrous ; margins with 
stipitate, stellate, almost black seta. Veins repeatedly forked ; 
the lower part of the coste slightly prominent. Sori always 
solitary, terminal, apex free, prominently bilabiate ; receptacle 
long-exserted. 
Hab. : Bellenden-Ker, K. Domin. 
T, serratulum, Baker; Domin, Prodr. p. 15. Rhizome 
slender, wide-creeping ; stipes slender, naked, about } in. long ; 
frond under } in. long, about } in. broad, oblong or subrhom- 
boidal in general outline, pinnatifid down to a narrowly winged 
thachis ; segments erecto-patent, in 2-6 pairs, linear, simple or 
forked, } in. long, under } line broad, toothed at the margin, 
texture membranaceous ; a central costa only in each seg- 
ment ; spurious venules none ; sori | to 2, terminal on the 
upper segment, the tube exserted or even stipitate, the mouth 
slightly two-lipped, deeply ciliated with sharp linear teeth.— 
Hook.-Bak., Syn. Fil. 80. : 
Hab. : Bellenden-Ker, K. Domin. Also found in Borneo. 
™, cupressoides, Desv.; Domin, Prodr. p. 18. Rhizome 
short-creeping, scaly throughout or at the extremity only. 
Stipes approximate, 2-8 in. long, slightly covered with brownish 
hairs. Fronds 2-8 in. long, 1-6 in. broad, deltoid, obovate or 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 pinnatifid, the main rhachis mostly 
slightly winged towards the apex and submarginate below. 
Pinne erecto-patent, about } in. broad, lanceolate-oblong, 
cut down nearly or quite to the rhachis. Pinnule deeply 
Pinnatifid, with linear simple or pinnatifid lobes. Ultimate 
segments short and often tooth-like. Texture coriaceous; 
