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have never seen it from the West Indies. Smith's figure is 
¿certainly not characteristic. 
3. M. sambucina. Blume, En. Pl. Jav. p. 256. 
Has. Java, Blume.—The author observes of this plant 
that it differs from M. levis of Smith, in the pinnules being 
acutely serrulate, not inciso-serrate. 
4. M. sylvatica. Blume, En. Pl. Jav. p. 256. 
Has. Java, Blume.—Blume remarks that this only differs 
from M. sambucina in the frond being triplicato-pinnate, with 
the pinnules coarsely serrated, and from M. alata in the ap- 
pressed serratures and smooth rachis. i res s 
5. M. fraxinea. Sm. Icon. Pl. Ined. t. 48. 
Has. Mauritius, Thouin. Isle of Bourbon, Willdenow.— 
* Common in the Woods of Mauritius and Bourbon. This 
is among the most beautiful of the whole order. The stem is 
a scaly placentiform bulb, from six to twelve inches in dia- 
meter, sending off numerous cord-like fibres, which penetrate 
deep into the earth. The scales are fleshy, two to three 
inches broad, with a deep indenture in each, wherein the base 
of the decayed frond had lodged. ‘These scales retain their 
sap as long as the plant continues to exist, and serve probably 
to supply its demands during the dry season. The fronds 
are developed one by one. They are of a cordate outline, from 
two to six feet high, bipinnated; the pinne opposite, from 
two to seven pair, with or without a terminal one. The leaf- 
lets are alternate, lanceolate, acute, serrulate, marked with 
parallel veins, simple or bifid. The partial rachis is slightly 
winged, jointed at the base, the joints tumid, but shrinking 
. 9n exsiccation.” Carmichael, MSS.—The M. oppositifolia of 
Smith in Rees’ Cyclopedia, appears to be a narrow and oppo 
site-leaved variety. 
6. M. sorbifolia, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 168. - Moris: sorbifolia 
Bory, Voy. 1. p. 266. 
Har. Isle of Bourbon, Bory de St. pulito Merirding 
to Bory, this is distinguished by its alternate, not opposite, 
pinne, and narrower pinnules. - - The breadth of the latter we 
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