596 Underwood: The genus Alcicornium 



10. Alcicornium sumbawense (Christ) 



PlatycerUun sunibaivensc Christ, in Warburg, Monsunia I : 



64. 1900. (Type from Sumbawa, Warburg 1^266.^ 

 Range : Known only from its type. 



This species is possibly not distinct from A. Willinckii, so far 

 as one can judge by the description {g, v., page 592, note). 



11. Alcicornium VeitcMi sp. nov. 



Platycerium Veitchii G^.vd. Chrori, IIL ig : 652. 1896; Jour, 



Roy. Hort. Soc, 20 : Ixxxiii, 1896 {jiomen nudiini). 



Basal leaves appressed, soon becoming brownish ; spore-bearing 

 leaves cespitose (up to 1 1 in the cluster), 60 cm. or more long, 

 narrow at the base, tapering gradually to a width of 5-1 cm. or 

 more, then dividing into 6-8 narrow pseudopalmate lobes, 10-20 

 cm. long by 2-2.5 ^"^- wide, all becoming more or less sporang- 

 iferous in irregular areas ; upper surface grayish-scurfy from the 

 quantities of stellate hairs which soon become loosened, finally 

 smoothish in irregular areas from these hairs becoming deciduous; 

 under surface clear white from the abundant, crowded, silvery, 

 star-like matted hairs. 



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Imported from Adelaide, Australia with other plants by Messrs. 

 Veitch, the horticulturists for whom the species is named, and 

 by them publicly exhibited in 1896. Described from living plants 

 in hort. Kcw, September, 1905. 



A very distinct species of rigid habit quite in contrast with the 



other Australian members of the p:enus. 



12. Alcicornium Wallichii C Hook. ") 



(typ^ 



858: 764. 1858. 



Icon. : Hooker, Fil. Exot. //. p/ ; Beddome, Ferns of British 



a pL.ioS. 



Alcicornium Willinckii 



M 



1875. 



302. f. 5<5. 



Range : Java (type from Java, 

 cultivation by Willinck about 1873). 



/ 1876. 



Columbia University. 



