AN ENUMERATION OP CULTIVATED FERNS. Ill 



35. EGENOLFIA, Schott. Fee. 



Vernation decumbent, uniserial, subhypogeons. Fronds con- 

 tiguous, stipate, pinnate, 1-3 feet high, generally viviparous, 

 sterile pinnae linear-lanceolate, sub-entire or dentate, laciniated 



Genus 35. Fertile and barren fronds. No. 1. 



or pinnatifid, sinus mucronate. Veins forked or pinnate; 

 venules free. Fertile segments more or less contracted ; venules 

 evident, contiguous, foining a concrete amorphous receptacle, 

 sometimes forming moniliform spikes. 



1. E. appendiculata, /. 8-ni. Acrostichum appendiculatum, 

 Willd. ; Hook. Exot. FL t. 108. Acrostichum vivi- 

 parium, Sw. Polybotrya viviparia, HooJc. Exot. FL 

 1. 107. Acrostichum setosum, Wall. Acrostichum 

 Hamiltoniana, Wall. Egenolfia Hamiltoniana, Schott. 

 Gen. Fil. 34. East Indies and Ceylon. 



