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small in comparison, glabrous, and only minutely or scarcely at all ciliated along the angles of inflexion, com- 
monly called the margins. We have not seen the stem or leaves, nor can vi’e refer it satisfactorily to any 
described species : in many points it approaches to B. Blumeana, Schult. Syst. Veg. 7. p. 1343, but that 
species is said to have the spikes or branches of the panicle solitary, and the spikelets surrounding the knot 
on all sides : the other parts of Schultes’ description agree pretty well, so that, perhaps, our plant ought to 
be considered a variety of B. Blumeana^ 
Ord. XCI. filices. Juss. 
1. Lycopodium cernuum. L. 
Hab. Lappas Island ; VacJiell. Maeao ; Millett. 
2. L. caulescens. Wall. Cat. n. 137. Hook, et Grev. in Bot Mise. v. 2. p. 382. 
Hab. Macao ; Vachell. 
3. L. canaliculatum. L. — Hook, et Grev. in Bot. Misc. v. 2. p. 386. — (3. pallidius; minus 
nitidum, ramis magis attenuatis, caule inferne stolonifero. 
Hab. Macao ; Vachell. — The Lycopodia with sessile spikes, distichous leaves, and superior stipules 
arranged in two series, so abundant in the tropics, are by no means easy to define. The present, in its paler 
colour, less glossy foliage, and more attenuated branches, differs from what we conceive to be the true L. 
canaliculatum ; but we can hardly consider these characters sufficient to separate it from that species. 
1. Osmunda Vachellii; fronde pinnata basi fructificante, pinnis lineari-lanceolatis 
coriaceis integerrimis. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 15. 
Hab. Macao and neighbouring islands ; Rev. G. H. Vachell. — An extremely singular and beautiful 
species of Osmunda, resembling, however, the O. Javanica of Blume ; but that has many of the pinnae lobed 
and pinnatifid, and the fructification confined to the middle pinnae. 
1. Mertensia Hermanni Gleichenia Hermanni. Br. — Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 14. 
— Mertensia dichotoma. Sw. — Polypodium dichotomum. Th. FI. Jap. t. 37. 
Hab. Macao; Vachell; Millett. 
2. M. glaucescens. Willd. 
Our specimens exactly agree with one from Brazil, sent under this name by our friend Dr. Klotzsch, 
and which has doubtless been compared with the original plant in Willdenow’s herbarium. The pinnae are 
very glaucous beneath, but narrower than in the last species, always downy or rather arachnoideo-tomentose 
beneath, especially on the ribs. 
1. Lygodium Japonicum. Sw. 
Hab. Macao and Lappas Island ; Vachell, — This varies much in the length and breadth both of the sterile 
and fertile pinnules. 
1. Notolaena jot'/osa. Hook.et Arn. supra p. 74. 
Hab. Macao ; Vachell. 
1. Niphobolus Spr. — Polypodium pertusum. Roxb — Hook. Ex. FI. t. 162. 
Hab. Macao; Vachell; Millett. 
