Gardneriane. : N. O. Filices. 
TAB. CLXXXIII. 
ANTIGRAMMA REPANDA. 
Antigramma repanda. Presl, in Herb. Hook. 
Scolopendrium repandum. Raddi, Fil. Bras. t. 57.f. 1. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 69. 
Has. Brazil. Raddi. Sellow. Mr. Gardner. 
I have long known this plant as the Scolopendrium repandum 
of Raddi; and I have lately received the same from my friend 
Dr. Klotzsch, marked as the Antigramma repanda of Presl. 
Whether or not the latter author has any where published it, 
under that name, I am ignorant :—but the Genus I gladly adopt, 
differing remarkably as it does from Scolopendrium in not having 
the double involucre arising from the same vein, but from two 
different veins or branches, often considerably remote from each 
other. In fact the fructification of Scolopendrium may be looked 
upon as in single lines, covered by an involucre which separates 
in the middle through its whole length. In Antigramma, the 
fructifications are in twin lines from different nerves, each pair 
opening internally with an external unilateral involucre.* 
This plant grows in tufts from densely matted fibrous roots. 
Fronds \anceolate, shortly stipitate, membranaceo-coriaceous, 
somewhat waved at the margin, about a foot long. 
Fig. 1, Fructifications :—magnified. 
* While this description is in the press, I have received a copy of Pres!’s 
“ Tentamen Pteridographia,” where 1 find the Genus established at p. 120. 
t. 4. f. 9, 10. 
