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more or less clothed with fulvous chaffy hairs. — Linn. Mant. 

 p. 308. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 122. Schkk. Fil. t. 117. WUld. 

 Sp. PL V. p. 433. Hook. E.v. Fl. t. 104. Burm. Zeyl. viii. 

 t.5,/.l. A. incisum, For sk. JEyijpt. Arab. p. 187. A. ves- 

 tituni, Wall. Cat. n. 75. A. flageHiferum, Wall. Cat. n. 76 

 [pinnce narrower and more rigid). A. hirsutuna, Bory, 

 It. i. p. 198. Willd. Sp. PI. V. p. 432. Wall. Cat. n. 

 2176. A. Capillus Gorgonis, Webb, in Hook. Niger Flora, 

 (Spicil. Gorgon.), p. 192 (segments of the pinnce a little 

 larger and sometvhat divaricated). — /3. pinnae generally 

 quite glabrous, the margin frequently ciliated. A. ciHatum, 

 Blame in En. Fil. Jav. p. 215, et in Herb, nostr. (pinna? 

 rather more deeply cut than usual). 



Hab. Apparently thiougbout all India, from Scinde {Stocks, n. i^2A, 

 small), Madras {Wight, 131 and n. 130, d, pinnae deeply cut the segmenls 

 divaricating) 130, r, (small and old). Bengal, Nepal {Wallich, ^c), 

 Behar {Edgeworth), Assam, Boutan, Mislimee Mountains {Griffith, ,Jen- 

 Icins), Malay Islands, Blume, Cuming, n. 2921, Lobb. China, Beechei/, 

 Millett ; Mauritius, Ceylon. — /3. In the same countries as the hirsute form. 

 Java, Blume, Madras, Wight (2-19 and 130 and 130 A.). Arabia Felix, 

 Forskall. Cape de Verde Islands, Forbes, Vogel. — It were endless to enume- 

 rate the several varieties of this. The ordinary state of the plant is well repre- 

 sented by Schkubr, and in the Exotic Flora above quoted ; and the plant 

 appears from age and locality often to become glabrous, with a dry and 

 parched character, the under side of the segments of the pinna; channelled 

 (by the reflexion of the sides). The more beautiful state is what Willde- 

 now calls A. hirsutiim, when it has no elongated rooting extremity, but 

 that has properly merged into caudatum, it being often rooting and proli- 

 ferous at the end of a caudate rachis. It seems to inhabit all the warmer 

 or hot parts of the Old World ; and the A. Capillus Gorgonis, Webb, from 

 the Cape de Verde Islands, is assuredly but a slight variety. — The caudex 

 is rather stout and creeping, bearing wiry roots and tufted fronds. In the 

 perfect state of this plant the colour inclines to deep yellowish olive-green 

 (when dry) and the veins are rather distant and prominent; the rachis and 

 stipes are stout and wiry, and always more or less clothed with soft spread- 

 ing chaffy hairs. 



27. A. Edgeworthii, Hook. ; everywhere glabrous, fronds 

 linear-oblong elongated attenuated and often rooting at the 

 apex and there bare of pinnae, pinna? nearly sessile alter- 

 nate dimidiato-oblong rather acute the upper base trun- 

 cated and parallel with the rachis, superior margin obscurely 

 lobed rather more so in the sterile pinnae, indistinct lobes 

 truncated and bearing the sori one on each lobe, sori oblong 

 elongated approximate, stipes elongated slender and as well 

 as the rachis ebeneous glabrous. (Tab. LXXXI. B.) 



Hab. Adah Valley, in the Punjaub, near Mooltan, M. P. Edgeivorth,Esq., 

 Sept., 183S. — Mr. Edgeworth, in his notes, observes of this " it is not A. 

 rhizophorum" (for indeed the texture of the frond and venation are totally 



