TAB. CCXXXVI. 
TRICHOMANES PUNCTATUM. 
FILICES.—GvnaTx. Br. PorvroprACEX. Kaulf. | F1iriczs vere. Willd. 
Grzw. CHag. TRICHOMANES, Sm. 
Sori marginales. Capsule sessiles, receptaculo com- 
muni cylindraceo insertze, intra Zmvolucrum monophyllum, suburceolatum, ore hiante, textura 
frondis. Zr. 
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TnicHOMANES punctatum ; frondibus appressis simplicibus cordato-rotundatis obovatisve brevissime 
etiolatis radiatim nervosi E s E . CO EU ; : 
p vosis crenato-lobatis marginibus stellatim pilosis, involucris raris mar- 
ginalibus subcylindraceis bilabiatis, receptaculo perbrevi. 
Trichomanes punctatum. ^ Poir. in Enc. Méth. Bot. v. 8. p. 64. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 261. 
Spreng. Syst. eset. v. 4. p. 198. | 
Has. In India Occidentali: Insula Martinice. Poiret. Insula Guadaloupz. Kawlfuss. 
Guiana. Jom. Parker. | 
Caudex sublonge repens, ramosus, crassitie fili emporetici, dense fusco-tomentosus. 
Frondes numeross, semipollicares, appresse, subimbricate, plerumque cordiformi- vel reniformi-rotundatze, 
rarius obovate, membranaces, virides, minutissime reticulate, radiatim nervosa; nervis repetitim dicho- 
tomis ad marginem usque attingentibus; crenato-lobatee pilis raris nigro-fuscis stellatis sepe deflexis ciliatee, 
inferne nunc subtruncate, plerumque sinu profundo bilobatee, raro subcuneatse, in stipitem perbrevem atte- 
nuatee. 
Involucrum marginale, plerumque solitarium, fere omnino exsertum, subcylindraceum, superne latius bilabiatum ; 
labiis demum patentibus subrotundatis. 
Receptaculum vix exsertum. 
Capsule orbiculares, peltatee, reticulata, annulo completo cincta. 
Semina minutissima, subglobosa, viridi-fusca. 
Fig. 1. Portio caudicis cum frondibus. £f. 2. Frons altera. f. 3. Portio frondis cum pilo stellato-deflexo. 
f.4. Involucrum. f. 5. Portio receptaculi cum capsulis. f. 6. Semina:—magn. auct. 
We must confess that neither the name nor the description given by Poiret of this plant in the 
Encyclopédie Méthodigue would have led us to consider it the same as that which is here repre- 
sented: we have, however, received specimens from Kaulfuss, which prove it to be the individual 
described by him under that appellation. Its nearest affinity is with the 7. reptans (TAB. 32. of 
this work); from which it is distinguishable by its much smaller size, and rounder, imbricated 
and nearly sessile fronds, which are scarcely lobed at the margin, and never pinnatiid. The name 
T. nummulariafolium would have been much more appropriate than that of punctatum. 
