» were American Aloes.” 
= 830 CHARACTERS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 
others from different localities, when seen cultivated, may 
also be called specifically distinct. 
Sp. N. nidus (Linn.) (v v.); N. muswfolia (Mett.); N. 
australasica, J. Sm. (v v.) ; N. phyllitidis (Don.) (v v.); 
N. Grevillei (Wall.); N. Simonsiana (Hook.) (Bedd. F. 
Brit. Ind., pl. 248). 
Oss.—N. muscfolia has the largest simple entire fronds 
of all Ferns ; it is described by a Penang correspondent in 
the following words, “I saw two fine specimens of the 
 Bird's-nest Fern; each had between forty and fifty perfect 
green leaves; the average length of the leaves was 6 feet, 
and from 1 foot to 14 inches across in the broadest part. 
They were growing on each side of the doorway of the ` 
mansion; when I was walking up to them I thought they 
188,—AnticramMa, Presl (1836). 
Camptosorus, Pr. Scolopendrium, Hook. Sp. Fil. 
Vernation fasciculate, erect, acaulose. Fronds simple, ` 
cordate, lanceolate, 4 to 18 inches high, erect or decum- 
bent, in their apex viviparous, Veins forked; venules 
straight or curved, angularly anastomosing, reticulated, 
the marginal veinlets free. Sporangia produced on the. 
proximate sides of two contiguous venules, constituting | 
two linear confluent sori, each furnished with a linear. 
indusium, the free margins of which connive. 
Type. Asplenium brasiliensis, Sw. 
Ilust. Hook. and Bauer Gen. Fil., t. 57 A. C.; Moos 
Ind. Fil, p. 40 and 41 A.; J, Sm. Ferns, Brit. and 
— For., fig. 114; Hook. Syn. Fil., t. 4, fig. 41 b. d. — 
Oss.—This genus consists of at least four Species all. * 
