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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Spec. Fil. V. 11), differing in smaller pinnse, in the soft-downy rachis 
and in the sori occupying* extensively the lower page of the pinnce. The 
same fern occurs in the New Hebrides, where it was found by Capt. 
Fraser; but I do not find it included in the elaborate list of 132 ferns 
given by Dr. M. Kuhn (in den Verliandlungen der K. K. Bot. Gesel- 
schaft in Wien 1869) as occurring in these islands. The second ad- 
ditional species came from the Fly- River ; it touches in its affinity 
P. appendiculatum (Wall, list, 349), receding chiefly on account of the 
position of the sori, not close to the midribs of the lobes. 
Antrophyum reticulatum. 
Kauliuss, Enum. Eilic. 198. 
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. 
A. plantagineum (Kaulf. 1. c.) has been brought by the Rev. G. Brown 
from New Ireland. Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. iv. 
171) mentions as Papuan species: A. pumilum (Kaulf. 1. c.) and A. stric- 
turn (Mett. 1. c.). 
Blechnum orientale. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1077. 
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. 
In the first edition of Linnd’s Species Plantarum the names of B. 
orientale and B. occidentale are transposed, a typographic error, corrected 
in the second edition. The form with narrow pinnse approaches to B. 
serrulatum (Richard in Actes de la Society d^Hist. Nat. de Paris 1792, 
p. 114 ; B. striatum, R. Br, Pr. 152). 
ViTTARlA ELONGATA. 
Swartz, Synops. Eilic. 109. 
Fly-River; D’ Albertis. 
V. Bcolopendrina (Sclikuhr, accord, to Hook* et Bak, Synops. 396) is 
recorded from New Guinea. This is readily transferrable to the genus 
Teenitis, although the veins are longitudinal and not united in meshes. 
Asplenium scolopendroides. 
J. Smith in Ilooker’s Journal of Bot. iii. 408. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Our specimens accord with the illustration of Cuming’s plant from the 
Philippine Islands (Hook. Icon. 930). The shoitness of the stipes 
distinguishes it mainly from A. Amboinense (Willd. Spec. Plant, v. 303) ; 
the want of an intramarginal vein from A. Phyllitidis (D. Don, Prodr. 
