118 TRICHOMANES. 



broadly lobed, the lobes obtuse sinuate with stellated hairs in 

 the sinuses, reticulations irregular, veins pinnated remote sub- 

 dichotomous, involucres rare solitary terminal quite exserted, 

 subcylindrical attenuated below 2-lipped at the mouth, re- 

 ceptacles three or four times as long as the involucres. — Hook, 

 et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 117. 



Hab. Barbadoes, C. S. Parker, Esq. — A very distinct species, though at 

 first sight resembling T. punctatiim ; but different in texture, the reticula- 

 tion being of the ordinary kind, and the venation not flabellate as in the 

 species just mentioned. 



tff Fronds ivith only a solitary central vein or cosla in each segment. 

 (Sp. 13—19). 



13. T. parvulum, Poir. ; caudex creeping densely matted 

 tomentose, fronds reniform or rotundato-cuneate stipitate in- 

 ciso-palmate glabrous, segments linear obtuse eraarginate or 

 bifid, involucres terminal sunk subturbinate, the mouth spread- 

 ing obscurely 2-lipped, receptacles slightly exserted. (Tab. 

 XXXIX. A.) — Poir. Encycl. Bot. viii. p. 44. Bliime, En. 

 Fil. Jav. p. 22.3. T. sibthorpioides, Bory, in Willd. Sp. PL 

 V. p. 498. 



Hab. Bourbon, Bory, Pniret. Java, Blume. Philippine Islands, Cu- 

 ming, n. 256. Moluccas, Gaudichaud. IS! evi Ireland, Barclay. Madagas- 

 car, Dit Petit Thouars. — An elegant little species, resembling some palmated 

 Junyermannia, especially our J.Jlahellata, with a comparatively short stipes, 

 but little longer than the frond. 



14. T. proliferum^ Bl. ; caudex creeping downy much en- 

 tangled, stipes elongated bearing fronds which are proliferous 

 from their axils and which are subreniform or cordate deeply 

 divided palmate or almost digitate, the segments linear and 

 often again divided obtuse, involucres subcylindrical quite 

 sunk, the mouth spreading obscurely 2-lipped. (Tab. XXXIX. 

 B.) Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 224. 



Hab. Trunks of trees, Java, Blume. Luzon, Cuming, n. 209. — A very 

 remarkable plant, for the stipes is branched or proliferous ; that is, from the 

 base or axis of the frond, or sometimes from below the base, the stipes is 

 extended and again bears one or more fronds. It is allied in the fronds 

 themselves to T. parvulum, but larger, more deeply divided, so as to be of- 

 ten almost digitate. 



15. T. minutum, Bl. ; " frond (subbinate or ternate) on a 

 long stipes, leaves petiolate nearly round cuneate at the base 

 inciso-palmate glabrous, segments linear obtuse bifid." Bl. 

 En. Fil. Jav. jj. 223. 



Hab. Mossy trunks of trees in mountains, Java, Blume. — Blame observes 

 that this differs from T. parvulum in the longer stipes of the frond, in the 

 latter being more cuneate at the base, the segments generally bifid or bi- 

 partite;" but from his term, " frond subbinate or ternate," which exprcs- 



