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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



" Niphobolus;" compare 3Ianua (in the Saiuoaii Group). Eewa, and elsewhere. 



Nov. gen. ?, the shrub-fern, (No. 1). llhizoma upright, rigid, irregularly branching, 

 three to four feet high ; with small lanceolate fronds towards the end of the branches, 

 so as to be readily mistaken for an ordinary or normal shrub ; fr. in two rows. " Moun- 

 tain-summits on Ovolau," and also back of Mbua Bay, at the elevation of 2000 feet. 



Polypodium phymatodes ? ; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). North 

 coast of Viti-levu. 



; compare the last, but the frond seeming less coriaceous than in sp. of coral- 

 islands. Ovolau. 



(No. 9). Four to six inches high ; frond lanceolate ; fructification in two rows. 



On trunks of trees on the mountain-summits on Ovolau, at tlie elevation of 2000 

 feet. 



(No. 10). Fronds lanceolate, three to four inches high; fructification in two rows. 



Creeping on trunks of trees, on the mountains on Ovolau. 

 (No. 11). Two feet high; fronds pinnate, the segments dentate; fructification in 



two rows. On the mountains on Ovolau. 

 Gen. Polypodioid, with accessory scarious fronds, (No. 1). The true fronds pinnate ; 



fructification in two rows. Forming large nests in the tree tops. 

 " Microsorus" (compare No. 1 Taheiti). Long lanceolate frond. Ovolau. 

 (No. 6). Two to five feet high; stipe alate ; frond pinn., the segments acute. 



Ovolau, and elsewhere ; frequent on the ground in the forest. 

 ? (No. 7). Frond pinn. ; the pinn. broad, sessile, sinuately incised. In the deep 



forest, on the mountains back of Mbua Bay. 

 ? (No. 8); fronds bipinn. On the " Island of Munia," Dr. Holmes; observed 



also, in other localities. 

 Doodia (No, 1), compare New Zealand sp.. Ovolau, and Naloa. 



Cyathea (No. 2); tripinn., the segments linear; fr. small, Gleichenia-like, crowded, and 

 finally covering the whole inferior surface of the frond. " Mbua Bay," Rich. 



. A tree-fern ; compare the last species. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 3). A tree-fern, twenty feet high. Mbua Bay. 



(No. 4) ; fr. more distant. " Mbua Bay," Rich. 



Nov. gen. Cyatheoid, (No. 1). A tree-fern ; fronds tripinn., the first pinnae fertile, and 

 mostly covered with fructification; fr. a cup, as in Cyathea. On mountain-summits on 

 Ovolau, at the elevation of 2000 feet. 



Yittaria; compare (No. 1) Taheiti to Samoa. Rewa, and elsewhere. 



nov. sp., (No. 2) ; frond broad, full half an inch in width. " Ovolau, on trunks 



of trees," Brackenridge. 



Pteris (compare No. 1 Taheiti to Samoa) ; near P. esculenta of New Zealand. Abound- 

 ing in the open ground, at Mbua Bay and elsewhere. 



; bis (No. 2 Taheiti to) Samoa. Near P. pedata, but more divided. Muthuata. 



; compare (No. 7) Samoa (to Tongatabu). Simply pinnate. 



Chinensis; bis (No. 8) Samoa to Tongatabu. Frequent. 



(No. 9.) Very large ; pedately branched. In clearings near Rewa. 



(No. 10); bipinn.; the lower pinn. bipartite; segments broad-linear. " Savu-savu 



and elsewhere," Brackenridge. 



(No. 11); frond bipinn., the segments decurrent, lanceolate, acuminate. On the 



mountains back of Mbua Bay. 



