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VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA. 109<br />

range. A very distinct and curious plant, receding from typical<br />

Puhipod'nim in the direction of Ihivallia, section I'msaptia.<br />

21'i.;= Polypodium (Eupolypodium) bipinnatifidum Baker,<br />

n. sp.— Piootstock not seen. Stipe very slender, 1^-2 in. long,<br />

clothed with fine spreading brown hairs. Froud oblong lanceolate,<br />

bipiunatitid, pendent, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 5-G iu. long,<br />

an inch broad. Pinnaj distant, linear, cut down to a narrowlywinged<br />

rachis into small ovate or oblong lobes, each containing a<br />

single vein and a single globose superficial sorus.—Near the summit<br />

of the Owen Stanley range. Near /'. tornlosuin Baker in Hook., Ic.<br />

t. ]G73, and P. pozoznense Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 1672.<br />

P. niijreacens Blume.—Mount Musgrave. (India to Queensland<br />

and Polynesia).<br />

P. Dijjteris Blume.—Mount luiutsford. (Malay and Polynesian<br />

isles).<br />

P. triquetrnm Blume ?—Near the summit of the Owen Stanley<br />

range. (Malay and Polynesian isles). A plant gathered at<br />

9200 ft. on Mount Musgrave with large uniserial sori filling up<br />

nearly the whole under surface of a paleaceous lanceolate fertile<br />

frond under half an inch broad, may be a contracted montane<br />

variety of this species.<br />

(Ti/iitntiijnDiniie caudiformis Hook.—Mount Knutsford. (India to<br />

Tahiti).<br />

ViWiiid ehiwiata Sw.—Near the summit of the Owen Stanley<br />

range. (Tropical regions of the Old World).<br />

V. Hveata Sw.— Mount Musgrave. (Warmer regions of both<br />

hemispheres).<br />

Taiiltis hlcchnuides Sw.—Mount Knutsford. (India to Poly-<br />

nesia).<br />

Acrostichum hicuspe Hook. — Mount Knutsford. (Java and<br />

Formosa).<br />

SCHIZCEACE/E.<br />

Srhizcea dichotnma S\v.—Mount Musgrave. (Widiily spread in<br />

both Old and New World).<br />

Lycopodiace^.<br />

Lj/copodium llnmiltonii Spreng.—Near the summit of the Owen<br />

Stanley range. (India, Ceylon, West China).<br />

371. Lycopodium Macgregori Baker, n. sp.— Stem slender,<br />

pendulous, copiously dicliotomously forked, a foot or more long.<br />

Leaves lax, ascending, lanceolate, acute, moderately firm, bright<br />

green, ^ in. long. Sporangia placed in the axils of the unaltered<br />

upper leaves.—Mount Knutsford. Nearest the common Tropical<br />

American L. linifolium L.<br />

L. rertirillatum L.—Mount Musgrave. (Widely spread in both<br />

hemispheres).<br />

/>. s(jw(rn).suia Forst.—Mount Musgrave. (Tropics of the Old<br />

World).<br />

L. vdritoii 11. Br. — Mount Musgrave. (Australia and New<br />

Zealand).

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