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100 VASCULAR CRYPTOflAMIA OP" NEW GUINEA.
D. pinnata Car., var. D. gracilis Blume.—Mount Musgrave.
(Malay peninsula, Malay and Polynesian isles).
24. ;= Davallia (Leucostegia) cicutarioides Baker, n. sp.—Frond
decompound, probably deltoid, bright green on both surfaces,
moderately firm, with slender glabrous polished brown rachisi s.
Lower pinnae ovate-lanceolate, 6-8 in. long. Ultimate segments
linear, 1-nerved, at most J^^^ in. long, the sterile ones acute, the
fertile obtuse. Sori minute, solitary in the dilated tip of the
segments. Indusium pale, suborbicular.—Mount Musgrave. JMosfc
like the Vitian D. J'erulacea Moore.
Linchoija lohata Poir.—Mount Musgrave. (India to Queensland
and Polynesia).
24.* Lindsaya tricrenata Baker, n. sp, — Stipe and rachises
slender, naked, castaneous, the former 4-5 in. long. Frond
glabrous, bipinnate, deltoid, moderately firm in texture, composed
of few long pinnfe, attaining G-8 in. in length, ^ in. in breadth.
Segments sessile, cuneate, ^ in. broad, creuate on the outer edge.
Veins about B to a segment, each one forked. Sori round or
oblong, placed at the tip of the lobes. Valves of the indusium
narrow, firm, glabrous.—Mount Musgrave. Allied to L. rijida and
horneensis.
Lmimria procera Spreng. — Mount Knutsford and near tlie
summit of Owen Stanley range. (Widely spread in both hemispheres).
Aspleniiim tenenim Forst.—Mount Knutsford. (Ceylon, Malaya,
Polynesia).
A. Lasei])itii/()lium. Lam.—Mount Musgrave, Mount Knutsford,
and near the summit of the Owen Stanley range. (India and
China to Queensland and Polynesia).
A. Liilibianuiii Hook.—Mount Musgrave. (Philippines, Java).
A. latijulium Don. ?— Mount Musgrave. Eachises black. Very
likely a distinct species, but material too imperfect. (India, N.
Australia, &c.).
AHiiidiuiii aruJeatuw Sw. — Mount Knutsford and near summit
of Owen Stanley range. (One of the most widely spread of the
characteristically temperate types).
49.* Nephrodium (Lasirea) simulans Baker, n.sp. — Rootstock
not seen. Stipe short, scaleless. Frond oblong-lanceolate,
bipinnate, moderately firm, under a foot long, 3 in. broad at the
middle, narrowed gradually to the base ; main rachis densely
crinite. Pinuaj lanceolate, h in. broad, the central ones 1-H i"long,
cut down to the rachis into linear-oblong segments J^ broad.
Veins simple, erecto-patent, 5-G-jugate. Sori subcostal,
Indusium persistent.—Mount Knutsford. Simulates in habit the
common American A'. contrriJiiniDii.
N. Fiilc-vKis Rich.—Musgrave range. (Cosmopolitan, temper-
ature).
N. near s/Kirfiuui and chincnse.—Mount Musgrave. Too incomplete
for positive determination.
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