

TAB. LXIII. 



TtENITIS interrupta 



FILICES. — GyiiATiE. Br. 



Polypodiace^. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd 



Gen. Char. TJENITIS, Sw. Sorus linearis, continuus, quandoque interruptus, longitudinalis, 



inter costam et marginem exteriorem frondi 



Indusium nullum. Willd, 





T^nitis interrupta ; fronde pinnata, pinnis lineari-ellipticis obtusiusculis, soris interruptis. 

 Taenitis linearis. Wall. MSS. (non Kaulf.) 

 Hab. In India Orientali. Wall. 



Stipes quatuor ad sex uncias longus, erectus, flavo-fuscus, hinc canaliculatus, basi subsquamosus, intense fuscus. 

 Frons stipite brevior, circumscriptione late ovata, pinnata, pinnis alternis remotiusculis subpatentibus, lineari 



ellipticis, parum coriaceis, obscure reticulatim 

 brevissime petiolatis, terminali petiolo sublongi 



igerrimis, apice obtusiusculis, basi 



Sori longitudinales, interrupti, prope marginem frondis inserti, involucro nullo 



Capsulce sphaericae, annulo lato fere completo cinctae, pedicell 



Capsulce plurimae abortivae (f. 



Fig 



Portio frondis, cum 



f. 2. Capsulae 



f. 



Pedicelli cum capsulis abortivis 



■magn 





* 



Received from the Honourable the Directors of the East India Company ; but from what part of 

 India is not mentioned. Its affinity is evidently with T. blechnoides Sw. (T. pteridioides of Schkuhr) ; 

 but that is a vastly larger plant, with the pinnse remarkably attenuated. Of that species Swartz 

 observes that the capsules are mixed with articulated setae, terminated by a torulose rounded club. 

 These are doubtless analogous to what we here consider pedicels with abortive capsules — capsules 

 indeed reduced to a portion of the annulus, which is all that is formed of them. 



