known to authors. The only habitat given by Presl is “ Nepal, 
Wallich, Hugel;” to which my herbarium enables me to add, 
Kamaon, Wallich (Blenkworth) ; Sikkim, Hook. fil. et Thomson, 
n. 356 a (in part); Nilghiri, Beddome, n. 159; Ceylon, Gardner 
(alt. 4000 feet, n. 1271), Zhwaites, C. P.,n. 1410; Java, Thomas 
Lobb ; Society Islands, very rare, Bidwill. 
The Royal Gardens are indebted to our excellent friend 
Mr. Thwaites for living plants, which were in great perfec- 
tion in a temperate stove in June, 1862. If there is little or 
no question about the specific identity .of this plant, there is 
more than ordinary confusion about the name. Presl says, that 
our name does not appear under n. 49 in Dr. Wallich’s Cata- 
logue, and suggests that the number should be suppressed as 
erroneous. Moore, in the Catalogue at the Linnean Society, 
finding n. 49 to bear the name of B. subcarnosum, has changed 
the name of daucifolium, Hook. et Grev., to subcarnosum, Wall.— 
a very unsuitable one to the plant, while that of dawcifolium is 
sufficiently appropriate. It is a fact however, known perhaps to 
few, that of Wallich’s lithographed Catalogue there have been 
of some of the early sheets two impressions, both of which I 
possess, and which are not always identical in name or number ; 
one was sent to me accompanying the specimens distributed, 
and perhaps the earliest and original sheets; the other to form 
a library volume for reference. My specimen bears, in the for- 
mer, the number “ 49, B. daucifolium.”’ In the other copy, n. 49 
is “‘ B. subcarnosum,” accompanied by the reference, “ Osmunda 
lanigera, Wall. Herb, from Sirrinigur, Kamroop.” This latter 
plant, from Wallich, in my herbarium bears that name, and 
is a true Osmunda—O. speciosa, Wall. Cat. n. 50. The name 
B. subcarnosum should therefore be entirely expunged, as well 
as the two Wallichian synonyms of Moore, B. speciosum and 
Osmunda lanigera, Wall. Herb.; for they only lead to error. 
Fig. 1. Ultimate segment of a frond, showing the venation. 2. Portion of 
a fertile rachis, with capsules and spores :—magnified. 
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