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CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUEENSLAND FLORA. 1t 
A. attenuatum, Sw. Rhizome stout, wide-creeping. 
Stipes 1 ft. or more long, stout, brownish, villose. Fron 
13-2 ft. long, 8-12 in. broad. Pinne numerous, 4-5 in. long, 
4 in. broad, cut about one-third down into sharp, triangular, 
faleate lobes, lower pinne distant and dwarfed, texture sub- 
coriaceous ; rhachis and under surface villose ; veins pinnate 
in the lobes, with 6-8 veinlets on a side. Sori in lobes close 
to the midrib.—Dryopterts dissecta, O. Ktze., Domin Prodr. 
p. 39; Nephrodium dissectum, Desv., Hook.-Bak. Syn. Fil. 
290 (1868) and 282 (1874). 
Hab. : Mackay, Amalie Dietrich ; Cairns, O. Warburg. Also found. 
in the Polynesian Islands. 
A. decompositum, Spreng., var. latilobum, Domin, Prodr. 
p. 37 (under Dryopteris). 
A. decompositum, Spreng., var. angustilobum, Domin, 
Prodr. p. 37 (under Dryopteris). 
The above two varieties proposed by Dr. Domin are in 
all probability only growths of the common form. 
OLEANDRA, Cav. 
Sori round, inserted in a row near the base or below the 
centre of the compact free veinlets. Involucre reniform. A 
small genus, almost restricted to the tropics, distinguished 
from Nephrodium mainly by habit, with wide-creeping scandent 
shoots, jointed stems, and entire lanceolate-elliptical fronds.— 
Hook.-Bak., Syn. Fil. 302. 
O. neriformis, Cav.; Domin, Prodr. p. 60. Shoots woody, 
suberect, clothed with adpressed scales ; stipes 4-1 in. long, 
with the joint below the middle. Frond 6-18 in. long, 3-14 in. 
broad, scattered, or in opposite pairs, or often in terminal whorls, 
narrowed gradually towards both ends; texture generally 
subcoriaceous and both sides naked; sori in two rather 
irregular rows near the midrib ; involucre oblique.—Hook-Bak., 
Syn. Fil. 302. Maid. et Betche, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
XxXxiv. (1909) 368. 
F. Waller. Found in Northern India, 
Hab.: Herberton, R. o 
Malayan region, Polynesia, West Africa, and South America. 
