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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



(No. 6). Smaller than the last, more simple ; frond pinn., the pinn. dentate. In 



the Sandal-wood District. 

 (No. 7) ; frond bipinn., in some instances tripinn., the pinn. coalescing towards 



the apex. Mbua Bay. 

 ? (No. 8). Simple, or in some instances tripartite, or even pinnate; the segments 



long, lanceolate. Wooded banks of a stream in the barren upland at Naloa. 

 (No. 9). Slender, weak, hairy, eighteen inches high ; frond bipinn. " Ovolau," 



Brackenridge. 



(No. 10). Six to eight feet high ; frond tripinn. " Ovolau, at the elevation of 



five hundred feet," Brackenridge. 

 Grrammitis ? (No. 1). Epidendric ; frond lanceolate, ten to twelve inches in length. 



Ovolau. 



? (No. 2). Four to six inches high ; frond pinnatifid, the segments alternate ; fr. 



along the margin. On the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at the elevation of two 



thousand feet, growing in tufts on the trunks of trees. 

 Scolopendrioid (No. 1). Frond lanceolate, the nervures parallel ; fr. larger than in 



Asplen. nidus. On mountain-summits on Ovolau, growing in tufts on the trunks of 



trees. 



Asplenium nidus, (bis No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). Frequent; grow- 

 ing also on the " Island of Oneata," where it was found by Dr. Holmes. 



(No. 11), bis?. Near A. lucidum; frond pinn., the segments serrate. On the 



mountains behind Muthuata. 



(No. 12) ; a second pinnate species; the segments less deeply serrate, and the fr. 



not reaching the margin. Ovolau. 



(No. 13). Six to twelve inches; frond bipinn., the segments cuneate, dentate. 



Ovolau, growing in tufts on rocks and the trunks of trees. 



(No. 14). Frond simply pinn., the segments an inch long; lines of fr. short. 



Ovolau, growing in tufts on rocks. 



nov. sp., (No. 15). Fronds three feet, tripinn., the segments striate, cuneate, 



dentate ; sori few. " Savu-savu, growing on trunks of trees," Brackenridge. 



nov. sp., (No. 16). Habit of Adiantum ; frond 4-pinnate. Rewa. 



(No. 17). Habit of Adenophorus ; three to five inches; frond pinn., pinnis in- 

 cised or dissected, the segments obtuse. Mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation 

 of two thousand feet, growing in tufts on the trunks of trees. 



? (No. 18) ; a congener of Aspidium asplenioides, Frond tripinn., the segments 



dentate. Ovolau. 



Nov. gen., grass-like; bis (No. 1) Samoa. In tufts on the trunks of trees; frequent. 



Nov. gen., dimorphous ; compare (No. 1) Samoa. Epidendric; creeping; the barren fronds 

 Polypodium-like, the fertile ones sinuately incised. Ovolau, and elsewhere. 



; congeneric with the last. Creeping on trees and rocks; the sterile frond broad- 

 lanceolate. Ovolau. 



Cryptog. incert. ; bis (No. 1) Samoa. Long back hair-like stems, tangling together the 

 undergrowth in the forest ; branching, and the branches terminating in a minute 

 Agaric-like expansion. Frequent. 



Jungermannia (No. 3). Ovolau. 



(No. 4) ; compare New Zealand sp., long-tailed. On the mountain behind 



Muthuata. 



