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axillary cyliiulrical ta|)cnug below Iree, the mouth entire 

 .slijijlitly spreading, rachis terete furrowed above not winged 

 nor margined for its whole length, ])ilose with scattered soft 

 brown hairs as well as the terete stii)es. — lionj in IVilld. v. 

 f). .314. Hook. Ic. Plant, viii. t. 702. T. Mauritianum, Fliujge, 

 MS. {Willd.) 



Hal). In une wood at tlie great lake, Bourbon, liory, Carmichacl . — My 

 specimen of this is from Capt. Carmichael, and wants the lower part of the 

 sti])cs. Frond It inches long (much larger than Willdcnow describes it), 

 dark brown, flaccid, truly bipinnatc: the ultimate segments and involucres 

 as in T. strictum, but the former are much more compound and more 

 flaccid. 



65. T. meifoliiim, Bory in Willd. ; tall tufted erect rigid 

 ovato-lanceolate bipinnate, pinnules lanceolate subbi])inna- 

 tifid, the segments narrow-linear obtuse, involucres sn)all cy- 

 athiforra free su])ra-axillary, stipes and rachis terete clothed 

 with long spreading rufous setic. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 508. 

 " T. ericoides, Hedic. Fil.'' T. lanceolatum, Poiref, Encycl. 

 viii. p. 83, {(iccordinff to Desvau.v). T. geminatum, ./. Sni. 

 En. PI. Fil. {name only). — 0. Baiierianum ; fronds larger 

 (11 — 14 inches), stijies and rachis with lew hairs or naked. 

 T. Baueriannm, Endl. Prodr. Ins. Nor/', p. 17. 



Hab. Bourbon, Bun/. Java, Blame. Philippine Islands, Cumin;/, n. 

 137 and '207. Oahu, Macrae. — 13. E. Indies, Mr. Ward. Pacific Islands, 

 lirnnctt, Nightingale. Norfolk Island, F. Bauer, Mr. Vaughan Thompson. 

 — 'J'he stout stipes (3 — 5 inches long) clothed with long, harsh, dark brown 

 spreading hairs or setae, probably deciduous in /3. Fronds 8— 10 inches, 

 in i3. 11 — 14 ; segments rather crowded, involucres small, short, spreading 

 and quite entire al the mouth. 



0(5. T. longisetum, Bory ; " fronds triplicato-pinnatc, pin- 

 njc patent lax, ])innules linear ca])illaceous dichotomous in- 

 cnrved, rachis winged above setose below, receptacles fdiform 

 five times longer than the involucres." Bory in Willd. Sp. 

 Pl.v.p. 510. 



Hab. Bourbon, Jiorg. — Willdenow places this next T. fceniculaceum and 

 T. meifolium, and says that from the latter it is sufficiently distinct in the 

 rachis winged above, in the narrow and more distant pinnae, in the linear- 

 capillaceous pinnules and in the very long receptacles. 



()7. T. nia.vinium, Bl. ; "frond tripinnate ovale oblong very 

 ample, pinn;e subalternate oblong-lanceolate, pinnules cune- 

 ate-oblongpartito-pinnatifid, the segments subdichotomo-])ar- 

 tite, the secondary ones linear siibbifid, rachises all winged, 

 stipes elongate glabrous and terete below." Jil. En. Fil. Jar. 

 p. 228. — ^. minus ; fronds smaller, pinn;e snb()])posite, pin- 

 nules rather rough beneath with segments inciso-j)innati(id, 

 secondary ones linear subemarginate, stipes winged." Bl. I. c. 



