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104 VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA.
the expedition collected was not Bellis perennis, but doubtless
either the new Olearia, or one of the two endemic Vittadinnias.
Tlie following is a complete enumeration of the Vascular
Cryptogamia obtained during the expedition, with descriptions of
the new species. I have added in brackets a general outline of the
distribution of the species already known, and the numbers ]pre-
fixed to the names of the novelties indicate their position according
to the sequence followed in our ' Synopsis Fihcum.'
GlEICHENIACE/E.
Gleichenia dicaepa R. Br.—The type on Mount Knutsford, and
also a variety resembling the Javan G. vukanica Blume, with
larger and more copious palefe and frond covered beneath with
ferruginous tomentum. (Australia, New Zealand, Malay Isles,
New Caledonia).
G. flaijellnris Spreng.—The type. Mount Musgrave, alt. 7000-
8000 ft., and near the summit of the Owen Stanley Range. A
variety with much narrower segments, resembling the Javan G.
bracteata Blume, on Mount Knutsford. (Polynesia, Malay, and
Mascaren Isles.
G. dichutovui Hook. — Mount Knutsford. (Cosmopolitan in
tropical and subtropical zone).
Cyatheace^.
48'''. Cyathea Macgregorii, F. M. Record, p. 40. — Caudex not
above 2 ft. long. Frond bipinnate, rigid in textiire, the largest
pinnje in our specimens being 4 inches long by an inch broad
rachises densely or thinly clothed on the upper surface with an
intertangled coat of brown palese ; young fronds clothed copiously
with a similar covering and large ovate-lanceolate whitish or brown
membranous scales on the rachises. Mature pinnules lanceolate,
at most an inch long, ^ in. broad. Tertiary segments round or
oblong, bvillate, rigid, with much recurved rigid edges, enclosing a
single large central sorus, with a fragile globose indusium.—Mount
Knutsford, with Eannncuius amerophi/llns and Decatvca Spence r ii
also Mount Victoria and near the summit of the Owen Stanley
range. A most distinct and interesting novelty. The habit and
bullate tertiary segments with recurved edges recall the very rare
Cheilauthcs spcciosissima A. Br. [Plecosorus mexicanus Fee).
50* Cyathea Muelleri Baker, n. sp.—Fronds ample, tripinnate,
rachis and both surfaces naked, except
moderately firm in texture ;
the midrib of the pinnules above ; upper surface dark green, lower
pale green. Lowest pinnte in our specimen oblong, a foot long.
Pinnules lanceolate, under an inch broad. Tertiary segments
linear- oblong, ^ in. broad, adnate to the rachis, deeply crenate, the
edge not at all recurved. Veins deeply forked in the lower lobes of
the segments. Sori 8-10 to the largest segments.
persistent subentire cup. — Mount Knutsford. Allied
Indusium a
to C. vieduia
lis Sw.