162 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ava., 1898. 
COIX, Linn. 
C, Lachryma-Jobi, Linn. Job’s-tears. Two distinct forms of this tall grass are 
common in New Guinea; the fruits of each being chalky-white and used by 
the natives in ornamentation. 
One form has fruit very nearly like that of the normal or the one most 
usually met with in garden culture, the fruit being tear-shaped. 
The other is var. sfenocarpa, Stapf.; fruit agreeing with Sir J. D. 
Hooker’s description in Fl. Brit. Ind., VII., 100. Fruit cylindrical or 
slightly tapering towards the hase, about - lines long. 
Order FILICES. 
DAVALLIA, Sm. 
D. parallela, Wall. Rhizome often creeping to a considerable extent over the 
tree stems, scaly with dark-brown close scales, margins of which are scarious and 
ciliate. Stipes with scales similar to the rhizome, 2 to 5 in. long. Fronds 
long as stipes, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, 2 in. or more broad, 
deeply pinnatifid nearly to the midrib; lobes horizontal, rather close, linear- 
oblong, the longer ones slightiy falcate, entire or the lowest pair sometimes. 
with a minute lobe at their base; veins simple or forked. Indusium broad. 
lunate, opening towards the apex of the lobe. 
Hab. : Douglas Harbour, New Guinea 
This rather widely spread fern has before been met with in New Guinea. 
The}description is only given with an idea that it may assist persons to identify 
it, who may wish to cultivate it in their bush-houses. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM, Sm. 
[EusconopenDRIvM. | 
S. mambare (n. sp.) Rhizome wiry, angular, dark-brown, scaly on the younger 
portion, the scales few and scattered on the older parts, often forming a dense 
mass on swampy land and roots and stumps, but not climbing up the trees, 
emitting strong wiry roots. Fronds erect, linear-lanceolate, sometimes forked 
at the end, often exceeding 1 ft. in length, and not exceeding 9 lines in width; 
the margins irrecularly sinuate, sometimes the lobes cut down to the costa, 
all more or less sharply serrate, tapering to an almost filiform apex, and at the 
base to a stipes of 2 or 8in.; stipes and costa slightly scaly, with minute 
scales. Veins free, simple, or forked, rather close, parailel. Sori from the 
costa to near or some distance from the margin. 
Hab.: Swamps, Manibare River, New Guinea. 
The present plant in some respects approaches the one mentioned in Baron 
Miieller’s “Papuan Plants,” 49, as Asplenium scolopendropsis, collected by 
D’Albertis on the south-east part of New Guinea, but differs too widely from 
the description there given to be placed under the Baron’s name; besides, I 
consider that the genus Scolopendrium should be retained, and in that case, 
evenif the two prove identical when specimens are compared, his specific name 
could not well be retained. 
