TAB. CLVIII. 
CRYPTOGRAMMA BRUNONIANA. 
BIDUES —Grnars. Dr.  PorvropracEx. Kaulf.  Friricrs vere. Willd. 
Gzx. Caag. CRY PTOGIUAMMA, Br. Sori lineares (vel subrotundi) venulis costo (pinnula) 
obliquis insidentes. — Capsule pedicellat:, receptaculo communi elevato nullo.  Z»volucrum 
commune (pinnule) marginale, continuum, :disco venoso, margine scarioso libero szpius 
induplicato ; partiale nullum. | 
Filiculee. 97abel/e ; frondibus cespitosis bi-tripinnatifidis :/ centralibus mutato-contractis Jfertilibus, 
exterioribus sterilibus: involucris dorsum totum pinnule tegentibus : capsulis óreve pedicellatis, 
annulo incompleto : sporulis obtuse trigonis, levibus. Br. 
CnyProcRAMMA Jrunoniana; frondibus s/erilibus tripinnatifidis laciniis lineari-oblongis bifidis 
acutissimis, fertibus bi-tripinnatis, pinnulis oblongo-ellipticis profunde serratis, demum 
(fructiferis) subintegerrimis. i 
Cryptogramma Brunoniana. 7Zallich, MSS. 
Has. In alpibus summis * Kumaun" dictis legit Zbobertus Blinkworth Á D. 1826 ; com- 
municavit JZallich. 
Hadiv csespitosa; e fibris numerosis, longis, filiformibus, ramosis, nigris descendentibus. 
Stipites plurimi ex eadem radice, erecti, subteretes, glabri, digitales vel in frondibus fructiferis subpalmares. 
Frondes steriles, circumscriptione ovate, duas vel tres uncias longs, tripinnatifidze, glabrae, submembranaces, 
laciniis lineari-oblongis, acutis, integerrimis, plerumque bifidis, acutissimis, nervo medio ante apicem evanes- 
cente, in glandula oblonga terminante, instructis: fertiles primum ovatse, bi-triunciales, demum magis elon- 
gatee, bi- quandoque tri-pinnatz, pinnulis junioribus ovato-ellipticis, profunde et acute crenato-serratis, acutis, 
penninerviis, venulis simplicibus vel dichotomis, apice clavato-glandulosis, ante marginem evanescentibus : 
, ffructifícantes margine seu involucro revoluto subintegerrimo, oblongse, tandem, capsulis maturis, mar ginibus 
explanatze. Rachis ubique tenui-alata, glabra. 
Sori oblongi, ex apicibus clavatis venularum progredientes, demum totam fere paginam inferiorem pinnulz tegentes. 
Inoolucrum commune, e margine lato subintegro revoluto usque ad nervum medium attingente formatum, sub- 
membranaceum, demum explanatum. 
Capsule brevissime pedicellatze, globosse, fuscee, annulo lato fere completo cinctze. 
Semina numerosa, pallide fusca, obtuse trigona. 
Fig. 1. Planta (magn. nat.) cum fronde sterili, fronde fertili juniore et frondibus tribus fructiferis magisque elon- 
gatis. f. 2. Portio frondis sterilis. f. 3. Pinne frondis fertilis junioris. f. 4. Pinna fructifera, margine seu 
involucro nondum explanato. f. 5. Portio pinne fructifere marginibus explanatis, sorisque in conspectu 
provenientibus :—magn. auct. 
Amongst the extensive and valuable collection of Asiatic Ferns made by Dr. Wallich under the 
direction of the Honourable the Directors of the East India Company, and which have been 
so liberally tendered to the use of the present work, few have given us more pleasure than a 
species of Cryptogramma,—the subject of the present plate,—which was detected on the lofty 
** Kumaun," a part of the great range of the Himala mountains, by Robert Blinkworth, one of the 
collectors in the employ of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, under Dr. Wallich. And this too, 
though from so very remote a country, is yet a/zost identical with that of Nootka Sound and Sub- 
arctic Ámerica. "The only difference exists in the sterile fronds: for the young state of the fertile 
fronds is exactly similar to the sterile ones of C. acrostichoides. 
. Dr. Wallich accompanied the specimens with the remark, * Dedicavi speciem conditori generis 
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immortali, amico zestimatissimo :" and we think ourselves honoured in being permitted to give 
publicity to so interesting a plant, which bears the name of the greatest Botanist of this or any 
other age or country. 
Since the above was written, we have received still another species of Cryptogramma from the 
vicinity of Quito, and which we propose naming after its discoverer Professor William J ameson of 
Quito. Its character may stand thus: 
. CnvProGRAMMA 4amesoni; frondibus fertilibus tri-subquadripinnatis, pinnulis linearibus ob. 
tusis rachique alata glanduloso-ciliatis. 
"Has. In rupibus prope urbem Quito. 
Numerous fronds spring from the same root: but in our specimens there are no barren Ones. 
