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so finely cut as T. hymenophy hides. Davallia Fcje- 
ensis is a species with highly decompound fronds, 
a foot or so high, having the segments so narrow 
that they bear only a single sorus upon each. A 
species of Hemonites, H. lanceolata, and Syngramme 
pinnata, are found in these islands; the latter having, 
on old plants, large pinnate fronds about one to two 
feet high, including the rather long stipes, the first 
simple lanceolate fronds from a foot to eighteen 
inches high, but it is questionable whether these 
simple fronds be not merely a state of the latter 
plant, for other species of Syngramme are known 
to have simple fronds as well as pinnate. Allied to 
Syngramme is the long and well-known Tcenites blecli- 
noides, which has a wide geographical range, but is 
not yet introduced alive ; the form usually seen in 
herbaria from the Malayan islands has large simply 
pinnate fronds, with long tapering pinnae, like Blecli- 
num orientale. 
There is also another Fijian Fern, desirable as much 
on account of its botanical character as from the 
singularity of its appearance, viz., Diclidopteris angus- 
tissima, which grows epiphytically on trees, chiefly 
the Tahitian chestnut ( Inocarpus edulis), in the 
manner of Vittaria, and has narrow, thin, grass-like 
fronds, varying from six inches to a foot in length. In 
all the Fijian specimens I have seen, the fructification is 
seated in a groove upon a vein running along the side 
of the midrib, and parallel with it, though in the 
generic character drawn up by Braekenridge, it is 
said to be normally in two rows, one on either side of 
the midrib ; but, as Braekenridge alludes to its being 
occasionally on one side only, I am not disposed to 
