Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
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Ptekis aquilina. 
Linn^, spec, plant. 1075. 
Near Port Moresby; Edelfeldt. 
Pteris siliculosa. 
Desvaux, M4m. de la Soc. Linn. Paris vi. 293. 
Towards the Astrolabe-Range ; Goldie. 
Monogramma Jungiiuiinii. 
Hooker, spec, filic. v. 123, t. 289. 
Stricklaiid-River ; Baeuerlen. 
A short-fronded form, wbich seems to demonstrate, that M. subfalcata 
must be regarded as a variety of this species. 
Asi’LENlUM PrESLEI. 
F. V. M. Scolopendrium longifolium, Presl. in reliq. Hienk i. 48. 
ToAvards the Astrolabe-Range ; Edelfeldt. 
Asplenium cuneatum. 
Lamarck, encycl. m6th. ii. 309. 
Towards the Astrolabe-Range ; Edelfeldt. 
Asplenium longissimum, 
Blume, enum. filic. Javan. 178. 
Astrolabe-Range ; Edelfeldt. 
A small-fronded form with blunt segments ; these auriculated only 
upwards. 
Mr. Edelfeldt’s plants were all kindly communicated by Th. Gulliver, 
Esq., F.L.S. 
Aspidium tuberosum. 
Bory in Willd. sp. plant, t. 234. 
Aroa; Armit (.dr^ws-Expedition). 
Polypodium avenium. 
Mettenius, Polypod. 220, t. iii. 
Towards the Astrolabe-Range ; Edelfeldt. 
This and the four preceding identified by Dr. Luerssen. 
