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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



(No. 6). Growing in tufts, ten inches liiuh ; multifid linear segments. On 



the mountains on Ovolau. 



(No. 7). Six to eight inches high ; frond tripinn., incised. Mbua Bay. 



(No. 8). Two to five inches, creeping ; frond narrow, the segments serrate. Ovolau. 



(No. 0). Six to nine inches high, clustered ; frond very broad, tripinn. " Ovolau," 



Brackenridge. 



(No. 10). Habit of Todea; stipe eighteen inches, and the frond two to two and a 



half feet, tripinnate. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 11). An inch high, with entire segments. " Creeping on rocks on Ovolau," 



Brackenridge. 



■ possibly distinct from the last, the segments narrower. "Rocks on Ovolau," 



Brackenridge. 



(No. 12) ; fronds simple, undivided, half an inch to an inch high. " Ovolau, 



creeping on rocks," Brackenridge. 

 Hymenophyllum (No. 3). Small, creeping, the segments broad and serrate. Ovolau. 

 (No. 4) ; a second species. A foot high ; frond broad, the segments entire. 



" Mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of 2000 feet," Brackenridue. 

 (No. 5) ; a third species. Six to eight inches ; frond broad; segments serrulate; 



the involucral segments also serrulate. " On trunks of trees on mountain-summits on 



Ovolau, at the elevation of 2000 feet," Brackenridge. 



(No. 6) ; capsule very large. "Trunks of trees on Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Todea nov. sp., (No. 1). Three feet high, bipinn. ; midrib pubescent beneath. Ovolau, 



at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 

 Nov. gen. Dicksonioid ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to Samoa); simply pinnate. Growing in tufts 



on trunks of trees, on the mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of 2000 feet. 

 Dicksonia? (No. 9). Growing " on the ground ;" frond smooth, multipartite, 4-pinnate ; 



sori Davallia-like, but small. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 10). "Ten feet high;" stipe tomentose; frond broad, 4-pinnate. " On the 



mountains on Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 11). Habit of Asplenium; tripinn., the segments cuneate ; sori generally 



in pairs. Bank of stream in the barren upland at Naloa. 

 (No. 12). A congener of North American sp. ; tripinn., the stipe paleaceous. 



Ovolau. 



; perhaps distinct ; tripinn. Growing in the Sandal-wood District. 



Davallia? pectinata, (bis No. 3 Taheiti to Samoa). I think seen here, but there are no 

 specimens. 



(No. 4) ; frond 4-pinnate ; multifid, linear segments. Ovolau, Nukulau, and else- 

 where; frequent. 



Nov. gen. Davallioid, (No. 1). Fronds pinnate, the fertile ones separate; sori along 

 margin. Creeping on trunks of trees on the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at 

 the elevation of 2000 feet. 



Acrostichum aureum, (bis Brazil, and No. 2 Taheiti to Tongatabu). Abundant in sub- 

 maritime marshes. 



(No. 4) ; fronds ovate, entire, the fertile one separate. On trunks of trees on 



the mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



? (No. 5); fronds lanceolate, obtuse, ten to fifteen inches; no fruit. On trunks 



of trees on the mountain-summits on Ovolau. 



