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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
covering of the stipes and midrib, the long creeping stems, the generally 
more tender consistence of the fronds, their narrowness, acute base. Ions* 
acumen and often manifest denticulations, the very conspicuous not 
almost concealed veins, and the sori approaching as well to the edge as 
to the midrib. There is on record an evidently allied Scolopendrium 
from the Philippine -Islands, namely S. longifolium (PresL Reliquije 
Haenkean. 48, t. 9, f. 1), which Sir Will, Hooker united with the later 
described S, pinnatum (J. Smith in Hook, Journ. of Bot. hi. 406), This 
I have here been unable to compare ; but also Baker (in Hook, et Bak. 
Syn. Fil. 247) describes the fronds as subcoriaceous ; nor is there any 
tendency in Signor D’Albertis’s plant, of which we have several specimens, 
to any division pinnate or otherwise of the fronds. Mettenius however 
keeps the simple -fronded plant distinct as Micropodium longifolium 
(Filic. Ind. ii. 233). 
Other species of this genus, known as Hew Guinean, according to 
Hooker, Mettenius and Baker : 
A. scandens, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. hi. 408. 
A. cyatheefolium, Bory in Rich. Voy. d’ Astro], Bot. 19. 
A. vulcanicum, Bl. Enum. Fil. Jav. 176, 
A. Nidus, Linne Sp. PI. 1079. 
A. decussatum, Sw. Syn. Fil. 76. 
A. tenerum, G, Forst. Prodr, 80. 
A. LATIFOLIUM, 
D. Bon., Prodrom. PI. Nepalens. 8. 
About 15 miles inland from Port Moresby; A. Goldie. 
The sender found the stem three feet high, hence mentions this as a 
small treefern. It is still necessary, that from living plants the full 
characteristics of A. latifolium, A. Schkuhrii and A. silvaticum should 
he more clearly set forth. A. decussatum, which also bears much 
resemblance, has simply pinnate fronds and anastomosing veins. 
Achostichum scandens. 
J. Smith in Hooker’s Joiurnal, iv. 149. 
China-Straits ; Rev. S. Macfarlane, 
Mettenius in Miq. Anna!, iv. 294 notes his Lomariopsis spectabilis, 
which according to Baker (Hook, et Bak. Syn. Fil. sec. edit. 412) 
must be regarded as one of the many forms of A. sorbifolium, L. Sp. 
PI. 1069. 
