Lindsaeoid Ferns— -BROWNLIE 
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kindly informed me that the specimen there, 
used by Copeland, is also 533, so that the num- 
ber quoted in the published description is ob- 
viously an error. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: From Vanikoro — 
Herb. Hk. without collector (Kew), Kajewski 
533 (Kew). 
Lindsaea nervosa Mett. 
Lindsaea nervosa Mett. Ann. Sc. Nat. IV, 15, 
62 , 1861 . 
A comparison of New Caledonian material 
collected by Vieillard showed a discrepancy for 
a particular collection number. Mettenius gave 
the type specimen of his L. nervosa as Vieillard 
1540, locality Mons Dore, which is presumably 
Mont Dore, whereas sheets at both Kew and 
the British Museum (Natural History) bearing 
that number were specimens of Schizoloma 
prolongata, collected at Wagap. The Mettenius 
type obtained from Paris proved to be exactly 
what other collectors had understood as Lindsaea 
nervosa, and did indeed have the number and 
locality given in the published description. It 
appears that two widely separated collections 
have received the same number. Accidents such 
as this have contributed in some measure to 
the confusion surrounding many species from 
New Caledonia. 
Schizoloma prolongata (Fourn.) Brownlie, 
comb. nov. 
Lindsaea prolongata Fourn. Ann. Sc. Nat. V, 
18, 334, 1873. 
L. cheiroides Fourn. Ann. Sc. Nat. V, 18, 
334, 1873. 
Comparison of the collections at Kew and 
the British Museum with one of Fournier’s type 
specimens of L. cheiroides (Balansa, 1602) leads 
to the conclusion that these are all better re- 
garded as examples of one variable species. The 
name L. cheiroides has been applied to a form 
with a markedly elongated apical portion of the 
frond and with the lobing of the sterile pinnules 
accentuated to serrations. L. prolongata as un- 
derstood by Fournier and others has pinnules 
with rounded lobes, and the terminal division 
of the frond is not elongated. However, varia- 
tion from rounding to serration of the pinnules 
may be observed even within a single specimen, 
and since the other characters appear to be 
identical there are no grounds for retaining 
them as separate species. It appears possible 
that these may also grade into Schizoloma het- 
erophyllum var. majus (Christensen, Viert. Nat. 
Ges. Zurich 77, 8, 1932). On the basis of 
Holttum’s understanding of the lindsaeoid gen- 
era (Flora of Malaya 2, 320, 1954), it should be 
placed in the genus Schizoloma. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: MacGillivray 27 
(B.M.), unnumbered (Kew), Herb. Macleay 
unnumbered (Kew), Vieillard 1540 (Kew and 
B.M.), Balansa 1602 (Paris), le Rat 943 and 
965 (Kew), Franc 11 and 33 (B.M.) and 365 
and 679 (Kew), Pancher unnumbered ( B.M. ) , 
Compton 541 (B.M.), Buccholz 1260 (Kew). 
Tapeinidium flavicans (Mett. ex Fourn.) Hier. 
Hedwigia 62, 13, 1920. 
Lindsaea flavicans Mett. Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. 
Cherb. 10, 317, 1867 (nomen); Fourn. 
Ann. Sc. Nat. V, 18, 334, 1873. 
L. tenuifolia Mett. Ann. Sc. Nat. IV, 15, 64, 
1861 ( non Bl. ) . 
L. balansae Fourn. Ann. Sc. Nat. V, 18, 335, 
1873. 
L. campylophylla Fourn. Ann. Sc. Nat. V, 18, 
335, 1873. 
Davallia lenormandi Bak. Syn. Fil. 471, 1874. 
Odonto soria lenormandi ( Bak. ) C. Chr. Ind. 
Fil. 465, 1906. 
This is another example of several graded 
forms having been described under different 
names. Baker’s Davallia lenormandi is repre- 
sented at Kew by Vieillard 1548 and 1549 and 
by Pancher unnumbered. These specimens show 
considerable variation in degree of fineness and 
dissection of the fronds, but all are recognized 
as the one species. A single sheet, MacGillivray 
14, which is given by Fournier as an example 
of Lindsaea flavicans, is identical with the most 
dissected form of Baker’s species. Balansa 1652, 
the type of L. balansae, is another very dissected 
form with somewhat more open habit but is 
otherwise indistinguishable. This possibility had 
already been suggested by Christensen (Viert. 
