Tas. 4768. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM Kressit. 
Pinnated Hound’ s-Tongue. 
Nat. Ord. Fruices.—CryproGamia FILices. 
Gen. Char. Sori lineares, oppositi, inferior in venula superiore, superior in 
venula proxima inferiora. nvolucrum lineare, planum, marginibus liberis op- 
positis contiguis aut distantibus. Ven@ pinnate, interne, uni-bifurcate, venulis 
parallelis apice libero in punctum incrassato aut acuto terminatis.—Rhizoma sub- 
rotundum aut repens. Frondes fasciculata, subcoriacee, simplices, integerrime vel 
lobate, nune pinnate. 
Sconopenprivm Krebsii ; stipitibus fasciculatis brevibus crinitis, frondibus sub- 
coriaceis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis pinnatis glabris subtus nunc minute 
punctatim squamulosis, pinnis approximatis sessilibus e lata basi utrinque 
auriculatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subsinuatis, infimis remotis del- 
toideis reflexis, involucris oblongo-linearibus margine minute ciliatis. 
ScoLopenprium Krebsii. Kunze, in Linnea, v. 18. p. 118. Fée, Gen. Fil. 
p. 209. | 
Onycutum Krebsii. Kunze, in Linnea, v. 10. p. 594. 
A native of South-eastern Africa, about Graham’s Town and 
Natal, whence we have received original specimens from the 
late Professor Kunze, gathered by M. Krebs and by M. Guein- 
zius. ‘The general aspect is so unlike that of our own Scolopen- 
drium (vulgare), having more the habit of Nephrolopis, or some 
other aspidioid plant, that, without a careful inspection of the 
fructification, few would suspect it to be of this genus. Kunze 
indeed, in the first instance, described it as an Onychium ; and 
even in his figure of the species as Scolopendrium Krebsii, he 
introduces a frond with the sori forming two almost uninter- 
rupted lines, parallel with, and close to, the midrib: thus no- 
ticed by Fée,—‘“ 8. Krebsii (ex Kunzio) sporothecia biformia 
producit, aliis sporothecia Scolopendrit, altis Lomarie sporothecia 
referentibus ;’—but to me this sort of fructification more re- 
sembles that of a Doodia or Woodwardia. The figure probably 
belongs to some very different Fern. ‘The species requires a 
temperate greenhouse for its successful cultivation. — 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1854. 
