AFRO-INDIAN REGIONS. 



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(No. 13) ; not before met with. Glaucous and haii'y on both sides. On Mount 



Banajao. 



Dicksonia (No. 15); frond tripinn., spreading. On Mount Banajao. 



Davallia (No. 5); sori rather small. "On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 6) ; but three to four feet high, spreading ; frond 4-pinnate. On Mount 



Banajao. 



Gen. Davallioid, (No. 3); perhaps a congener of Polynesian Davallioid. Linds^a-like ; 

 frond pinnate, incised above. On "trunks of trees on the mountains near Banos," 

 Brackenridge. 



Acrostichum aureum, (bis Brazil and No. 2 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands). In the envi- 

 rons of Manila; sub-maritime. 



? (No. 13). A simple lanceolate coriaceous frond; no fructification. On Mount 



Banajao. 



? (No. 14). Climbing rhizoma, yet rooting at point; fronds pinnate, caudate, the 



fertile one separate. On "trunks of trees on the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. (Acrostichoid, No. 1); segments broad-ovate, coriaceous, entire; probably a separate 



fertile frond. Growing "in bunches on trees, on the mountains near Banos at the 



elevation of 1800 feet," Brackenridge. 

 Schiz«a (No. 6) ; not before met with. Simple, the stem bialate. " On the mountains 



near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 x\diantum? (No. 10); or perhaps Lindsasa. Frond pinnate, six inches high. On Mount 



Banajao. 



(No. 11) ; not before met with ; frond simply pinnate. " At Banos," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



Lindsasa (No. 8); two feet high. "On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(Angiopteris evecta?) ; compare (No. 1) Taheiti (to the Feejee Islands, and) Marattia ?. 

 Trunk six feet high ; fronds spreading, fifteen feet in length. On Mount Banajao. 



Lygodium (No. 2) ; finely divided segments. Frequent at Banos, and elsewhere. 



(No. 3); not before met with. Larger and broader fronds. " On the mountains 



near Banos," Brackenridge. 



Nov. gen. Wallichii ; bis (No. 1) Feejee Islands ; Polypodium of some writers. Flubellate. 

 On Mount Banajao, at the elevation of 5000 feet. 



Polypodium pjhymatodes; bis Polynesian sp. (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to the Fee- 

 jeean Group). "At Banos," Brackenridge. 



; compare the true P. phymatodes ; seeming different from the Polynesian sp. 



" On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 26) ; not before met with. " Four feet high;" frond bipinn. ; fructifica- 

 tion irregularly scattered. "On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 27); not before met with. Frond narrow, Vittaria-like, but rooting; and 



sometimes pinn. at base; young fronds also pinn., &c. "On the mountains near Banos, 

 at the elevation of 1500 feet," Brackenridge. 



(No. 28) ; not before met with. Frond pinn., the segments narrow and few. On 



"wet rocks on the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 29). Four feet high ; frond pinn., sinuate ; sori numerous. " On the moun- 

 tains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 30) ; not before met with. Four feet high; frond bipinnatisect, reticulate 



or the nervures prominent. "On tiie mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



