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flowers.— Forests of Pansamala, alt. 3,800 feet, Jime, 18S6. 

 (Pl. Giiat. Tuerck., a I. D. S. edit., 942.) 



Myriocarpa heterospicata, — Monoecioiis : a shrub 

 with pale smootn verrucose branches : leaves glabrate- 

 except the ciliate veins and tixils of under surface, Lanceokite- 

 acuminate, 3-5 inches long, less than a tlird as broad. nar- 

 rowed to a pubescent petiole 10-16 lines long, margms entn-e 

 or with a fevv callose points, tri- or tripli-nerved vvith 2-3 

 pairs above the middle, loosely reticuLate beneath, above 

 conspicuously beset with cystoHths not radiately arranged r 

 spikes unisexual, approximate, single in the axils, secund 

 forkino- once shortly above the peduncle, the closely-fiowered 

 stamimite spike about a third as long as the loosely-flowered 

 6-a-inches-long pistilLite one : male flowers 4-merous, pen- 

 anth-secrments roundish and marked with cystohths, rudi- 

 ment of ovary indistinct and peltate ; female flower sessile 

 in a2-phvllous calycle.— Distinct byitsspikes not andvogyn- 

 ous as in the only other monoccious species, J/. bifarca I.iebm. 

 The absence of both hairs and glands, as raduitmgpomts tor 

 cystoliths, is also special.— For.ests of Pansamala, alt. 3,800 

 fiet,March, 1886. (Pl. Guat. Tuerck., a I. D. S.edit., 892.) 



Nfpiirodium TuERCKHiiiMii. — Rhizome stout, creep- 

 ino- forking: stipes loosely clustered, ascendmg at base, 

 2--^^ feet Tonc^ a third o"f an inch thick, slrammeous, 

 pubescent, densely clothed throughout with brown tnangular- 

 lanceolate patent scales 3-4 lines long with a punctiform cel- 

 lulation: frond oblong-acuminate, 3-4 ^eet long, halt as 

 broad, subcoriaceous, strigiHose or glabmte above, paler and 

 pilose beneath ; main rachis thickly paleaceous, secondaiv 

 ones with smaller scattered scales ; pmna^ close ly 35-40-P£te 

 below the pinnatifid apex, linear-tapenng the lower ones 

 notreduced, 16-20 lines broad, cut dovvn to withm a sixth 

 of the space to the midrib ; segments 60-70-ju-ate, Imear- 

 oblong 8 lines long, 2 lines broad, oblique, acutish, margms 

 revokfte veins iS-li-jugate with the lowest one termmatmg 

 Tthe s1'nus basal segments of lower pinn:e enlarged 017 

 1 ines long and 8 lines broad, ovate-lanceolate, Pinnatifid : 



sorisubrSarginal, small, 9-12 ^«^^^r^A-^^^^r. dLv ' 



