PiatTe 1695, 
PLATYCERIUM ELLISII, Baker. 
Fiticzs, Sub-order Potyropiacea, Tribe AcrosticHEs, 
rium Ellisii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 
latyceri 421; fro 
dibus sterilibus — fertilibus sessilibus rigidulis glabris viridibus 
cu 
neatis, apice emarginatis sinu late aperto, yenis primariis flabellatim 
eubparalelis verticlibus — exsculptis i ili 
obliquis connexis, magno transversali oblongo emarginato ad 
furcarum apices bani sttiawente 
Has. Forests of Central Madagasear, Rev. W. Ellis, 
Lamina pedalis vel ses op infra apicem 5-6 poll. la 
This very curious species was received from the irctaeade’ a 
after whom it i tiined’: in the year 1870. An ities allied species is 
also peculiar to as island (P. madagascariense, Baker).—J. G, Baker. 
Whole frond: reduced in size, 
