594 Underwood : The genus Alcicornium 



Icon.: Gard. Chron. III. 23: 155-/ ^^' 1898; Rev. Hort. 

 Beige 28 : 85, //. 1902 ; Schweinfurth loc. ciL 



Schweinfurth's wood cut illustration is very, misleading and 

 does not at all compare with his specimens at Kew, which differ in 

 no particular from A, a?igolense. 



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3. Alcicornium bifurcatum (Cav.) 



fi/fi 



Jackson, Australia.) 



105. 1799. 



Platycerinm augtistatum Desv. Me 

 1827. (Type from Australia.) 



213. 



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Willdenow. Not A, alcicorne Willem. 

 Platycerutm alcicorne of Gaudichaud and Presl. 

 Range : Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia ; pos- 

 sibly extending to Africa, but exact data are wanting. 



. Icon.: Turpin, Diet. Hist. Nat. (Atlas) ; Bot. Register 3 : pL 

 262, 26J. 



4. Alcicornium coronarium (Miiller) 



Osiminda coronaria Miiller, Naturforscher 21 : 107. //, j. 



17S5. (Type from Siam.) 

 Acrosticluim bifornie Sw. Jour, fiir die Bot. (Schrader) 180O" : 



II. 1801. 

 Platyceritim coronmnum Desv. Mem. Linn, Soc. Paris 6: 213. 



1827. 



biformc Blume, FK Jav. Fil. 44, //. 18. 1829. 



Nevroplatyceros bifonms Fee, Mem. Foug. 2: 104. 1844-5. 

 Range : East Indies from Siam to Penang. Singapore, Sumatra, 

 Borneo and the Philippines, 



Icon,: Muller ioc, ciL\ Blume loc. citr^ Beddome, Ferns of 

 Brit. India//. 22^, 



5. Alcicornium EUisii (Baker) 



Platycerinm EUisii Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 15: 421. 1876. 



(Type from Madagascar, Ellis. ^ 

 Range : Known only from central Madagascar. 

 Icon.: Baker, Hook. Ic. PI. 17 : //. i6g^, 



6. Alcicornium grande (J. Sm.) 



Platycerinm grande J. Sm. Jour. Bot. (Hooker) 3 : 402. 



