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sometimes bipartite, under-side pale-coloured, full of concave 
dots (stomata.) 
Species. 1. K. esculifolia, Blume. 2. K. Assamica, Griff. 
Illust. Hook. gen. fil. t. 59. A. Hook. et Grev. ic. fil. t. 229. 
Hook. Journ. of Bot. 2, t. 11, 12. 
Obs. Few instances have been detected of this remark- 
able genus. "The original species was found by Blume in 
Java, and recently by Cuming in the Island of Leyte, where 
only one plant was noticed ; a second species has lately been 
discovered in Assam by Mr. Griffith. 
Kauifussia, in habit, venation and the position of its spo- 
rangia, presents much similarity to Drynaria plantaginea, 
Aspidium trifoliatum and Hypoderris Brownii; while the 
structure of its sporangia denotes its place to be in this 
division, and like Maraítia and Danea, the multilocular or 
compound sporangium may be viewed as formed by the 
union of from ten to twelve oblong sporangia, sessile 
round a punctiform receptacle, which being concrete, 
forms one mass, constituting a multilocular or compound, 
rotate sporangium, each cell opening interiorly as in An- 
oorr 
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Notes of a Boranicau Tour in the WESTERN AZORES. 
By HgwzrTr C. Warsow, Ese. (Continued from page ! 25 
of the present volume.) 
AN ASCENT OF THE PEAK OF PICO. 
The island of Pico was not surveyed during the summer of 
1842; but while the Styx lay at anchor in the Bay of 
Horta, in the neighbouring island of Fayal, I had two oppor- 
tunities of joining parties made from that vessel for the ascent 
of the Peak; whichis by much the loftiest of the hills in 
the Azores, and consequently affords good illustrations of the 
influence of elevation in modifying their vegetation. 
