

TAB. LXXVII. 



HYMENOPHYLLUM CRISPATUM 



FILICES. 



Gyr 



ATiE. 



r. 



Polypodiace^. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd 



Gen. Char. HYMENOPHYLLUM, Sm. Sori marginales. Capsulce sessiles, receptaculo 



communi cylindraceo insertae, intra involucrum bivalve, textura frondis, valvis planis exterius 

 liberis. Br. 



Hymenophyllum crispatum; fronde ovato-acuminata bi-tripinnatifida integerrima glabra^ laciniis 



lato-linearibus obtusiusculis, involucris ovatis, stipite rachique alatis undulato-crispatis. 



Hab. In Nepalia. Wallich. 





Cau&cx repens, filiformis, radiculoso-fibrosus, fibris hirsutis.' 



Stipes biuncialis, basi teres, filiformis, superne alatus, alis insigniter crispatis. 



Frons digitalis fere ad palmarem, ovata, acuminata, nunc lato-lanceolata, superne simpliciter pinnatifida, versu; 



medium bipinnatifida, basi tripinnatifida, segmentis primariis circumscriptione lanceolata, ubique integerrima 

 atro-viridis, glabra, laciniis lato-linearibus, obtusiusculis, rachi late alata, .ala undulata. 



Livolucra, praecipue versus apicem frondis, ovata, valvis concavis, integerrimis. 



Columella (vel receptaculum capsularum) perbrevis, ad apicem capsulas gerens. 



Capsulcc orbiculares, vix pedicellatae, annulo integro subobliquo cinctae. 



Semina angulata, pellucida, subreticulata. 



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Fig. 1. Portio frondis cum involucris. f. 2. Valva involucri cum soro. f. 3. Semina: — magn. auct. 



Allied to the West Indian Hymenophyllum undulatum of Swartz and Willdenow ; but that has 

 the laciniae undulated, and the stipes destitute of wings. 



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