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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
FILICES. 
Davallia tarallela. 
Wallich, numorio list 251. 
On the Strickland-River ; W. Baeuerleii. 
The lower pinnse sometimes ascendant. 
Davaelia COJS'TIGUA. 
Swartz, syiiops. fil. 130. 
Stricldand-Eiver ; W. Baeuerlen (Expedition of the Austral, geogr. 
Society). 
Sometimes fruiting already at the height of 4 or 5 inches ; not rarely 
one series of sori only to a segment. 
Asplenium Belangeri. 
Kunze in Botan. Zeituug vi. 176. 
On the Strickland-Eiver with A. silvaticiim ; Baeuerlen. 
Some of the specimens have the pinnas more elongated than in the 
illustration xli. of Hooker’s exotic ferns, in some instances the pinna; 
being narrowly protracted at their summit. 
Polypodium verrucosum. 
Wallich, numerio list 296. 
Strickland-Eiver ; Baeuerlen, 
This fern attains there a length of fully 6 feet, though growing on 
trees ; the pinnag are sometimes still larger than those represented in 
Sir- Will. Hooker’s “Garden-Ferns,” pi. 41, and are often thinly char- 
taceous. The identical species occurs in various places of North- 
eastern Queensland, from whence Mr. Kefford records it 12 feet high ! 
LICHENES. 
Leptogonium tremelloides. Fries ; Cladonia fimbriata, Schaerer ; 
Ricasolia Scha;reri, Nylander ; Sticta Karsteni, J, Mueller ; Sticta 
sulphurea, Schaerer and Stictina quercicans, Nylander, are recorded for 
New Guinea by Dr. J. Mueller, the leading Lichenologist of the 
present time, from material jilaccd at his disposal by the writer. 
