82 
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
FI. Nepal. 7) ; the not almost horizontal indusia from A. simplicifrons 
(F. V. M. Fragm. v. 74). 
Asplenium myriophyllum. 
Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 90. 
Fly-River ; D' Albertis. 
The Papuan plant belongs to this species^ if Sprengel’s is adopted in 
the meaning of Grisebach (FI. of Brit. West. Ind. 684). Nevertheless 
it may prove only a form of A. cicutarium (Sw, Prodr. 130), 
Aspleniun speciosum. 
Mettenius, Asplen. p. 185, t. 5, f. 5. 
Fly-River 5 D’Albertis, 
Our plant agrees with Java specimens distributed from the Bot. 
Museum of Leyden; but the Javanic plant also is destitute of the scaly 
vestiture of the rachis, described b}^ Blume, nor are the sori diplazoid. 
From the same river we have a variety singular for its segments 
serrated only at the summit, and with the basal segments often much 
and suddenly reduced in size. 
Asplenium esculentum, 
Presl, Reliq. H^enk. i. 45. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. Fly-River ; D’Albertis. 
Sometimes the indusiura is so obliterated, that this plant might be 
taken for a Grammitis. 
Asplenium lunulatum, 
Swartz, Syuops. Pilic. 80. 
Fly-River; D’Albertis. 
The specific name, adopted as the oldest, does by no means well apply. 
The pinnae attain a length of 3 inches. 
FUNGI. 
Capnouium Fuligo. 
Thuemen in Litteris. 
Acervules epiphyllous, forming large black indetermined spots; spores 
elongate- or clavate-oval, straight or rarely somewhat curved, 4- or 
rarely 3 -septate, not constricted at the dissepiments, fuliginous; para- 
physes absent. 
On the Katau-River, occupying the leaves of fig-trees; communicated 
by the Hon. Sir Will. Macarthur. 
