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rosaceo effcetis paucis et precipue peripheriam versus sitis ; 
lacunze plures, sparse. Fasciculi vasorum subnoni, versus 
basin stipitis irregulariter, versus apicem hujus circa centrum 
dispositi, sectione transversá oblongi vel subreniformes. Dis- 
positio fibrarum ac vasorum eadem ac in rhizomate, sed vasa 
ajora, ductusque solubiles, pseudo-fissi compositi. Folio- 
um cuticula utraque et preesertim inferior, quae stomatosa, 
crassiuscula, e cellulis sinuosis globulas paucas virides minutas 
continentibus formata. Stomata (vel potius perforationes) 
maxima, sine ordine sparsa, in areolis minutis solitaria, in 
mediocribus plura, rotundata, inzqualia, supra cuticulam ele- 
ta, oculis nudis facile conspicienda, oris margine e cellulis 
nearibus 3-4 seriatis annulatim dispositis formato, membra- 
nulá marginali simplici? late crenata. Referunt omni sensu 
Hepaticarum quarundam stomata. Paren chymatis cellule ut 
rimum rotundata, meatibus conspicuis intercepte cellulis 
cuticule stomatose propinquis laxissimis, quam maxime 
difformibus et lacunis amplis interceptis. Loculorum parietes 
proprii tenues, membranacei, moleculis minimis crebris inter- 
Oss. For the knowledge of this plant being a Kaulfussia, 
‘am indebted to my kind friend Dr Wallich. In my M.S. 
had called it Macrostoma, in allusion to its stomata, which, - 
far as I know, have been found hitherto only in the cuti- 
culate genera of Hepatice; these organs M. Kaulfuss describes 
the words ** vesiculis pertusis.” I have described the cap- 
with reference to its appearance only, but it is at once 
obvious that the fructification consists of as many capsules as _ 
there are cells, united together by cellular tissue, which is- 
eficient along their inner faces, but in this species only from — — 
their middle upwards. The genus obviously belongs to the 
Subtribe Marattiacee or Daneacea, in which M. Kaulfuss has 
placed it; the correctness of this is fi .pointed out by - 
le fact, that in Angiopteris the evolution of the young frond — 
place in a similar manner, so far at least as may be ——— 
ged from the universal presence of the two scales su) roun 
ig the base of the stipes in this latter genus. 
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