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on the vegetation of these islands, make it rather doubtful as to 

 whether Gaudichaud may not have erred in assigning that country 

 as the habitat. 



* * * Frondes subternatce, hvpinnatce, vel bi-tripinnatifidce. 

 5. HUMATA CUMINGII. 

 Davallia (Eumata) Cumingii, Hook. Spec. Fil. 1, p. 155, t. 45, B. 



Hab. Mountains, near Banos, Luzon, Philippine Islands : on trees. 



Rootstock long, creeping, and paleaceous. Stipes from 3 to 4 

 inches long, setose-paleaceous. Fronds very coriaceous, cordate-ovate, 

 acuminate, bipinnate ; the segments dentate-serrate, shining on both 

 sides, underneath of a pale green colour. Sori numerous, seated in 

 the sinuses of the teeth. The sterile fronds are in general larger 

 than those represented in Hooker's Species Filicum. 



6. HUMATA SERRATA, Sp. Nov. 



H. rhizomate repente squamoso; stipite setoso-paleaceo ; frondibus coria- 

 ceis glabris cordato-ovatis ; sterilibus pinnatis, pinnis oblongo-ovatis 

 inciso-pinnatifidis, laciniis lineari-oblongis dentatis ; fertilibus acumi>- 

 natis basi tripinnatis superne bipinnatis, pinnis petiolatis, pinnulis 

 lineari-lanceolatis acutis inciso-serratis ; rhacJii costaqae marginatis ; 

 soris parvis sinubus serraturarum vnsertis; i?idusio orbicxdari margine 

 cequali. 



Hab. Feejee and Samoan Islands : clinging to the trunks of trees. 



RootstocJc slender and creeping, of a dark brown colour, closely 

 covered with linear-lanceolate scales, which are attached by a point 

 near their base. Stipe slender, setose-paleaceous. Fronds sinooth, coria- 

 ceous, cordate-ovate; the sterile one (including the stipe) not over 2 

 inches long, pinnate; the oblong-ovate pinnae incisehj pinnatifid, the 

 divisions linear-oblong and toothed : fertile frond (including the stipe) 

 about a span high, acuminate, tripinnate at the base, towards the apex 



