82 CHKILANTHES. 



lopendra Gahrielis, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 1003 dicata) optimc descripsit. 

 Confusio et speeierimi pciturbaliones cum Swaitzio, quod laruiii, orUe, qui 

 noinina duo divrisa plaiilre LinnaiaiifE, Liiinasanuni alteri Indies, nisi for- 

 san cadcni, indidit ; plauta enim valdc; polymorplia ; utcunque autem erit 

 Cheilanthi (Polypoilio, Linn.) fnKjranti veraj resiiluendum nonien suum et 

 Swaitziana, duni Icgilima, Clicilanthes Swartzii vocanda." — Polymovphous 

 as this species is, it is much kss so than most species of the Genus or of 

 the Family : and we can refer to the ligures of Schkuhr, both his tab. 19 

 and 123 (ihoujrh he considered the two plants as distinct), and to Sihthorpe, 

 and Desfontaines, for faithful representations of the entire plant: but the 

 fructification is nowhere well exhibited. Irregular as is the form of the in- 

 volucres, and however these may be distinct or combined, it will be observed 

 that while their lower portion or base is evidently formed of the inflexed 

 margin of the frond, green and herbaceous, the rest is a pale membranous 

 dilatation as it were of it. 



10. Ch. tenuifolia, S\v. ; caudex short creeping scaly, sti- 

 pes elongated rarely scaly, frond submembranaceous glabrous 

 3 — 4 inches to a span and more long ovate acuminate or more 

 or less deltoid subtripinnate, ultimate lobes of the primary and 

 secondary divisions the largest more or less pinnalifid, pin- 

 nules elliptic oblong or oblong-lanceolate subpinnatifid or 

 crenate with broad blunt teeth, involucres mostly elongated 

 more or less confluent more or less crenated or denticulate 

 sometimes transversely wrinkled, stipes and rachis purple- 

 black, main rachis winged above, secondary and tertiary ra- 

 chises all with a narrow wing. (Tab. LXXXVII. C.) — Sw. 

 Sijn. Fil. p. 129 et 332. Schkuhr, FiL p. \\7,t. 125. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. v. p. 460. Br. Proclr. p. 155. C. rupestris. Wall. 

 Cat. n. 67. C. micrantha. Wall. Cat. n. 68. Aspidium te- 

 uue, Retz, Ohs. vi. p. 39. Pteris humilis, Forst. Proclr. n. 

 421 } Trichomanes tenuifolia, Burtn. hid. p. 237. Dryo- 

 pteris campcstris, &c., Rumph. Amh. vi. p. 11, t. 34,/! 2. 



Ilab. East Indies {Sivartz), more especially in the hilly eastern provin- 

 ces of Bengal. Pundooh Mountains, Sylhet, Tavoy, Dr. Wallich. Moul- 

 main and throughout Khasya and Assam, Griffith, Mrs. Mack. Madras 

 Peninsula, Dr. Wight, {n. 136). Mangalor, {Herb. Hohenacker, n. 666). 

 Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1257, Mrs. Gcnl. Walker, Major Champion. Malay 

 Islands and Peninsula, fretiuent. Sincapore, Sir W. Norris, Seemann, n. 

 2304, Dr. Wallich. Malacca, Griffith. Peiiang, Lady Dalhousie. Java, 

 Blume, Zollinger, Thos. Lohb. Phillipine Islands, Chiming, n. 28] . Chi- 

 na, Strartz, Beechey. N. Holland, Port Jackson and the Tropics, Brown, 

 Fraser. Swan River, Drummond. Van Diemen's Land, Mr. Lairrence, 

 Mr. R. Gunn. New Zealand, Banks' Peninsula, Dr. Lyall. Sunk Island, 

 Mr. MacGillivray. — A widely distributed onVntaZ species of Cheilanthes, 

 both in the northern and southern hemisphere, variable in size and outline, 

 but very constant in the general ramification and form of the pinnules, al- 

 though these latter naturally difler much in form in dift'crent parts even of the 

 same plant. Our finest and most perfect specimens are those of Mr. Thos. 



