AN ENUMERATION OP CULTIVATED FEENS. Ill 



35. EGENOLFIA, Schott. Fee. 



Vernation decumbent, uniserial, subhypogeous. Fronds con- 

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

 sterile pinnas 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, foiling a concrete amorphous receptacle, 

 sometimes forming moniliform spikes. 



1. E. appendiculata, /. 8m. Acrostichum appendiculatum, 

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

 parium, 8w. Polybotrya viviparia, Hook. Exot. Fl. 

 t. 107. Acrostichum setosum, Wall. Acrostichum 

 Hamiltoniana, Wall. Egenolfia Hamiltoniana, Schott. 

 Gen. Fil. 34. East Indies and Ceylon. 



