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labium quinquefiduiii ( Lindl. in Hook. Lend. Journ. ii. 236 and 237) 
recorded also from Hinds’s gatherings but -without locality, may also 
have come from New Guinea. Miquel (FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 644 et 645) 
after Blume mentions from thence D. atropurpureum and D. spectabile. 
Neither Australian nor Papuan specimens of D. Johannis (G. Reichenb, 
in the Gardn. Chronicle I860, p. 890; Xenia Orch. ii. 165; Hook. Bot. 
Mag. 5540 ; Benth. Flor. Austr, vi. 279) have been seen by the writer, 
but Sir Will. Macarthur transmits now this plant from Hammond’s 
Island of the Solomon-Group. 
FILICES. 
POLYPOmUM PUNCTATUM. 
Tliunberg Elor. Japon. 337. 
Mainland of New Guinea. 
P. ferrugineum (Baker in Hooker’s Synops. Filic, 318) occurs in 
Zipx^elius’s Collection of New Guinea Plants. P. stigmosum (Swartz 
Synops. Filic. 29 et 226) is likewise mentioned specially as a Papuan 
fern by Baker. 
Aspidium molle. 
S"vrartz Synops. Eilic. 49. 
Mainland of New Guinea. 
A. Menyanthidis (Presl. Reliquiae Elfenk. i. 28; A. pachyphyllum, 
Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung vi. 259) is recorded from New Guinea by 
Sir Will. Hooker (Spec, Filic. iv. 56). 
AdIANTUM iEXHIOPICUM. 
L. Sp. Plant, edit, seennd. 1560. 
Mainland of New Guinea, 
This species was not distinguished by Liime when he wrote the 
first edition of his famous foundation-work for species. 
AsPLENIUM LASERPITirOLIUM. 
Lam. Encycl. Methodiq. i. 310 (1783). 
Ratau-River and coast opposite Yule-Island. Dr. Hinds brought 
from New Guinea A. scandens (J. Sm. in Hook. Spec, Filic. iii, 216). 
