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Nat. Ges. Zurich 74, 60, 1929). Similarly 
Balansa 854, the type specimen of L. campy lo- 
phylla, differs only in the slightly longer ter- 
tiary and quaternary segments. All should be 
united under the one species Tapeinidium flavi- 
cans. It seems possible that the related species 
T. moorei (Hk.) Hier. may even represent a 
decidedly coarse form of the same species, but 
enough comparative material was not available 
to decide this with certainty. 
Christensen identified Lindsaea tenuifolia of 
Mettenius with Sphenomeris chusana (L.) 
Copel., which does occur in New Caledonia, but 
Vieillard 1548 and 1549, which Mettenius gives 
as his species, represent Baker’s Davallia len- 
ormandi. Since that has been reduced to Tapein- 
idium flavicans, Lindsaea tenuifolia Mett. must 
also be a synonym of that species. 
specimens examined: MacGillivray 14 
(B.M.), unnumbered (Kew), Vieillard 1548 
and 1 549 ( Kew ) , Pancher unnumbered ( Kew ) , 
Balansa 854 and 1652 (Paris), Schlechter 15046 
( Kew and B.M. ) . 
Sphenomeris chusana (L.) Copel. 
Lindsaea retusa Mett. Ann. Sc. Nat. IV, 15, 
63, 1861. 
This appears to have been an incorrect identi- 
fication, because the plant is not the same as 
L. retusa of Indonesia. Mettenius gives his speci- 
men as Vieillard 1547, but an examination of 
the sheet used by him shows this to be a large 
example of the widespread Sphenomeris chusana 
which has been collected frequently in New 
Caledonia. 
SPECIMEN EXAMINED: Vieillard 1547 (Paris). 
SUMMARY 
Five species of the genus Lindsaea from New 
Caledonia and one from Vanikoro Island are 
reduced to synonyms either of other species of 
Lindsaea or of species of related lindsaeoid 
ferns. One species has also been transferred 
from Lindsaea to Schizoloma. A number of 
confusing aspects of collections of Lindsaea from 
New Caledonia have been clarified. 
Further collections from New Caledonia ap- 
pear to be necessary to elucidate the relation- 
ships among the three species L. macgillivrayi 
Carr., L. nervosa Mett., and L. neocaledonica 
Compton, and to define the specific limits within 
the genus Schizoloma. 
