3J> HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. ooi,a 



TlicfoUo'ving have a super dcoomponndyrond : 

 12. u>:dui.at(.!m. Waved. 

 Fronds tripinnatifid, orbipinnatifid, peaduloiifs, lanceolate; leaflets and pinnas 

 alternate, decurrent ; segments linear, retuse, crenulate-waved ; fruciiiica- 

 tions terminating, two-valved. Sw. 

 This species, as well as the ninth, tenth, eleventh, foiuteemh, fifteenth; und six- 

 teenth, bclon^toDf.Simtii's genus /ij//acjioj)/iT/llum. '* 



i3. SCANDENS. CUMBING. 



Adiantum ramosiivi scandcns, phmidis sen fiAiis, ohlongis, profuyidt 

 laciniatis, pjcl/ucidis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 96, t. 58. Major scandcns 

 tt ramosissimus, fvondc ienuisiiinc divisa. Browne, p. 86. 



Fronds super-decompound ; leaflets alternate ; pinnas alternate, oblong, serrate. 



Browne calk this the larger climhing trichoinanes, and very common i'n the wjoods of 

 Jamaica; its numerous foliage often shoots above a foot from the climbing root or 

 trunk of the plant. Sloane describes it as follows : " This has a stalk not su big as a 

 goose-quill, roundith, black, covered towards its top with a ferrnginous mosSj and 

 havinT very many filaments or clavicles, bv which it takes firm hold of the barks of the 

 trees, and rises to fifteen or iwenty feet high, turning itself round. At every inches 

 distance it puts forth leaves about a foot long, having about two inches of their foot- 

 stalk naked. This footstalk afterwards divides itself into branches, sometimes set op- 

 posite to one another, but mostly alternatively : the branches have their twigs, on 

 which grows the pinnukc, or leaves, being long, deeply cut in on the edges, very thin, 

 pellucid, of a yellowish-green colour, having some dark ojjaque ribs running through 

 them, and a woolly hair on them, and the seed on the ends of their seginentsj in a Lit- 

 tle cup. It grew on trunks ef trees." Sloane. 



14. filGIDUM. RIGID. 



Fronds four times pinnatifid, erect, deltoid ; leaflets spreading; pinnas lanceflr- 

 late; segments linear, gashed at the end ; fruit-bearing cups pedicelled, ax- 

 illary. Sw. ' ' 



15. POLYANTHOS. MANY-ANTHERED. 



Fronds four times pinnatifid, deltoid, erect; pinnas and pinnules decurrent ; 

 segments linear-obtuse; fructifications- two-valved, numer-ousj siipe mar- 

 gined. ^i:^;. 



16. CLAVATUM. CDUB-SIIAPED. 



Fronds four times pinnatifid, oblong-lanceolate, loose; pinnas and pinnules 

 decurrent; segments linear, emarginate; froctifications terminating, twxj- 

 valved, roundish ; stipe roundish. i'li". 



17. ACULEATUai. ACULEATE. 



Fili.v ramosa viajor, caule spuwsa, foliis seu pinyiidis rotimdis, pro-' 

 funde laciniatis, sen cercfolii foliis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 99, t. 61. 



Frond super-decompound, scandent, very much bvanched > leaflets palmate; 

 segments lineai-- obtuse ; stipe priclily. <S'k', 



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