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VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA. 105
HymENOPHYLLACEvE.
15" Hymenophyllum ooides F. M. & Baker, n. sp. — Stipe
short, thread-like, glabrous. Fronds lanceolate, 2-3-pinnate, pendulous,
glabrous G-9 in. long, at most an inch broad; rachis
thread-like. Pinnae very numerous, lanceolate, ascending, those in
the centre of the frond the largest, usually simply pinnate, rarely
with small pinnate pinnules. Ultimate segments obovate, obtuse,
1-nerved, emarginate, crowded, about Jj in. long, more or less
crisped and complicated. Sori small, terminal on the ultimate
segments. Indusium immersed at the base in the lamina of the
segments, its valves cuneate with a rounded margin.—New Guinea
highlands, alt. 9200 ft. A very distinct species, allied to 11. undu-
httiiiii and crispuDi.
H. dilatatuin Sw.—Mount Musgrave, Mount Knutsford, and
summit of Owen Stanley range. (Polynesian and Malay isles.
New Zealand).
H. tunhnd(jense Sm.— Summit of Owen Stanley range. (Cosmopolitan).
H. vmltijidum Sw.—Musgrave range, alt. 7000-8000 ft. (Polynesia,
New Zealand). What is probably an exposed mountain
form of the same species, with contracted fronds and a densely
scaly rachis, occurs on the same mountains.
Trklunnanes htuiiile Forst. ? Camp No. 1. — (Polynesia, Java,
New Zealand).
T. ptillidiiiji Blume.—Mount Musgrave. (Malay and Polynesian
isles. Queensland).
T. riiiidnm Sw.—Mount Musgrave. (Cosmopolitan, tropical and
subtropical).
T. apiifoliiim Presl. — Mount Musgrave. (Malay and Polynesian
isles. Norfolk Island).
T. triclwphijllitm Moore.—Mount Knutsford. (Borneo. New
Caledonia).
T. maximum Blume.—Mount Knutsford and Mount Musgrave,
7000-8000 fD. (Malay and Polynes.an isles, Queensland, Perak).
POLYPODIACE.E.
29." Dicksonia (Patania) rhombifolia Baker, n. sp. — Stipe
and rachis slender, naked, castaneous. Frond oblong-lanceolate,
bipinnate, under a foot long, green and glabrous on both surfaces.
Pinna? sessile, lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into oblongrhomboidal
pinnules \-^ in. long, ^ in. broad, which are truncate
on the lower side at the base. Veining subllabellate. Sori solitary
on the upper margin of the pinnules. Indusium an entire cup of
lirm texture. Near summit of Owen Stanley range.
l>(ivcilli(i hjjnicnopliijllnides Baker, Camp No. 1. — (Philippines,
New Caledonia, Java, Fiji).
L). lUumcnna Hook.— Mount Musgrave, 8000-9000 ft. (Philippines
to Fiji).
D. rc.stita
(Ceylon, Java).
Blume.—Mount Knutsford and Mount Musgrave.