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Fernando Po, Hindostan, Moulmein, Borneo and IP 
Caledonia; common throughout Tropical America. 
Kuhn limits T. pyxidifcrum, L., to W. Tropical Africa, 
Central and S. America, and considers our plant to be 
a distinct species, which he names T. melanotrichum, 
Schl.. assigning it to the River Nun, the Cape, Natal, 
Bourbon, Mauritius, Comoro Islands and Asia. — U.M. 
12. — T. rigidum, Sw. Usually found close to tiny 
rills of water, or on wet caudices of tree-ferns ; 
Kranskloof; Umhlasine, Longsight; the Inanda ; 
Great Noodsberg ; highest bush of Umpumulo ; Atter- 
cliffe ; not in Cape Colony, but throughout the Tro- 
pics ; also in Japan and New Zealand. — M. 
DAVALLIA. 
[A. elegans, Sw., as entered by Mr. McKen, is the 
same as the following.] 
13. — A. nitidula, Kze. ; ( Trichomanes cheer ophyl- 
loides, Poir.) On trees in coast bush, and at Kears- 
ney ; on rocks at Umzinyati Palls, Inanda. Kuhn 
gives it as A. denticulata, Mett. (A. elegans, Sw.) var. 
intermedia. Melt., and assigns it to Natal, Angola, W. 
Tropical Africa, Comoro and Seychelles Islands, and 
Madagascar, it has been gathered by Sir H. Barkly 
at St. John’s River, Kafraria. — C. 
14. — A. (Microlepia) speluncce, Baker; (Polypod. 
speluncce, L., Microl. speluncce, Moore, Microl. poly- 
podioides, Pr.) In bush-swamp, head of Bay of Natal, 
and on an open but wet slope at the base of rocks S. 
of Mission Station at Umpumulo, only ; at Itshoa, 
Zululand ; Magalisberg ; W. Trop. Africa, Seychelles 
and Mascarene Islands, Trop. Asia and Polynesia, W. 
Ind. to Brazil. — C.M. 
15. — A. (Loxoscaphe) thecifera, H.B.K. : (D. cam- 
pyloptera, Kze., A. concinna, Schr., Aspl. concinnum, 
Kuhn, Lox. concinnum, Moore.) On trees, 2,500ft. 
elevation, and upwards : Richmond; Maritzburg Town- 
hill ; Umpumulo; Karkloof ; Nottingham ; and Cath- 
kin ; E. Prov., Cape ; Zambezi, Abyssinia, Angola, 
Fernando Po, Bourbon, Andes of S. America. — U. 
CYSTOPTEHIS. 
16. — C. fragilis, Bernh. In wet and shady places, 
from Greytown to the Drakensberg. We have never 
seen it under 3,000ft. elevation. E. Prov., Cape ; and, 
generally, in temperate regions of the world, as well 
as high tropical mountains. — U. 
