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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
FILICES. 
Cheilanthes tenuifolia, 
Swartz. Synops. Filic. 129. 
Yule’s Island ; Goldie. 
Polypodium irioides. 
Poiret in Lam. Encycl. Meth. v. 513. 
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie. 
Polypodium phymatodes. 
Linne, Mautiss. Plant. 360. 
Darnley’s Island* A. Goldie. 
Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. iii.) gives the following species from 
Papuan collections : 
P, sinuosum^ Wall. Catal. 2231. 
P. linguiforme, Mett. Pil. Ind. 225. 
P. quercifblium, Linne^ Sp. PI. 1087. 
P. Linnoei, Bory in Annal des Sc. Nat. v. 464, t. 12, 
P. rigidulum, Sw. Syn. Pil. 38. 
P. femigineum, Bak. in H. et B. Syn. Pil. 318. 
P. acrosticlioides, G. Porst. Plorul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 81. 
Baker (in Hooker’s Synops. Pil. sec. edit. p. 350) notes as Papuan : 
P. stigmosum, Swartz. Synops. Pil. 29. 
Aspidium ramosum. 
Beauvois, Flore d’Oware, 91. 
South-East Papua j D’ Albertis. 
Mettenius has shown, that the following congeners exist also in New 
Guinea : 
A. immersum, Bl. Enum. Pil. Jav. 156. 
A. truncatum, Gaudich. in Pj-eyc. Yoy. t. 10. 
A. Pica, Desv. in Berl. Mag. v. 319. 
A. acutmn, Sclikulir Kryptog. Gewsechs. 32, t. 31. 
A. exaltatiun, Swartz Syn. Pil. 45. 
If Oleandra becomes reduced to Aspidium, as well might be done, then 
0. neriiformis (Cavanill. Prsel. 1801, n. 623) requires to be recorded on 
