TAB. VII. 



TiENITIS FURCATA 



FILICES.— Gyrat;e. Br. 



Polypodiace.£. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd. 



Gen. C 



T&NITIS. 



Sorus linearis, continuus, quandoque interruptus, longitudinalis, inter 



costam et marginem exteriorem frondis situs. Indusium nullum 



TmmTisfurcata ; frondibus dichotomo-partitis pinnatifidisve, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis 



subtus squamuloso-punctatis. 

 Tsenitis furcata. 



Pteris furcata. L 



Sp. Pl. v.b.p. 136. Smith in Rees Cycl 



Sp. Pl.p. 1531. Swartz. Syn. Fil.p.yb. 



Lingua cervina furcata. Plum. Fil.p. 122 et 141. 



H 



In 



ylvis Hispaniolae. Plumier. Insula Sancti Vincentii. Rev. L 



Trinitatis. D. L<ockhart 



Insula 



Cau&ex repens, ramosus, densissime squamoso-tomentosus, intense fuscus. 

 Stipes fere nullus. 



Frons spithamaea ad pedalem, erecta, inferne indivisa, linearis, basi attenuata, superne vel dichotomo-partita vel 



pinnatifida ; laciniis ultimis et nonnunquam lateralibus furcatis ; omnibus lineari-lanceolatis vel linearibus, 



6 vel ad 8 uncias longis, 6 lineas (in specimine Piumieri unciam) latis, coriaceo-membranaceis, integerri- 



venosis, facie superna viridibus, subnitidis fere nudis, subtus pallidioribus 



3 



mis, acutissimis, costatis et obscure 



punctato-squamulosis, squamulis minutis, ovatis, reticulatis, peltatis. 



Sori in duas lineas longitudinales prope marginem frondis, et totam fere longitudinem laciniarum plerumqu 



pantes. Indusium omnino nullum. 



< 



Capsulce pedicellatae, annulo completo. 



Semina oblonga vel subreniformia. 



Fig. 1 . Squamula. f. 2. Portio frondis cum 



sons. 



f. 3. 



Capsulae. f. 4. Semina:— magn. auct 



If we are right in referring this undoubted species of Tt 



the Lingua cervina fi 



nly hitherto known to Plumier 



to the T.fi 



of Swartz and 



than regularly dichotomous 



of Plumier, it would seem to be a species of very rare occurrence, and 



The figure in our plate indeed differs from that of Plumier in its 



ve the character of pinnatifid 



much narrower fronds, and in the divisions being rather such as to g 



but since the annexed engraving was finished, we have received speci 



mens from His Excellency Sir Ralph Woodford of Trinidad, gathered by Mr. Lockhart, which have 

 the fronds considerably broader, still narrower than Plumiers plant, and with some of the individuals 

 (evidently the younger ones) simply dichotomously divided. The more perfect state of the plant is 

 perhaps constantly pinnatifid with few segments, and the breadth of the frond is liable to much 

 variation. 



