206 PTERIS. 



\\.p. 605. B('lan(f. Voy. p. 4S. Ag. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 39. 

 Campteria Pseudolonclutis, Presl, Tent, Pterid. p. 147. 



Hal). Bourbon, Bort/ ; Madagascar, Goudot (Rory). — -"Stipes glal)rous. 

 Fronds 2 feet long, Ijipiiinate. Lowest jjiiinae bii)artite, the next above 3-4-i)in- 

 nulate; upper ones and pinnules sessile or adnate, 3-7 inches long, an inch broad, 

 pinnato-partite. More adult or terminal segnaents of the pinnse lanceolate, sub- 

 decurrently confluent ; younger ones or those of the pinnules more oblong or 

 obtuse. Basal veins all meeting so as to form arches between the costules; 

 secondary ones and veinlets forked or simple, free," Ay. — Agardh, who has 

 given his description from authentic specimens, places this species between /••/. 

 Crcesus, Bory, and PL tremula, Br., both of the section Eupteris ; hut as the 

 venation is clearly that of a Campteria with compound fronds, I venture to place 

 it here. 



76. Pt. (Campteria) Wallicliiana, Ag. ; frond ample gla- 

 brous submembranaceous S-partite, lateral branches com- 

 poundly divided terminal one elongated pinnated, pinnae 

 numerous sessile 4-6 inches long linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 deeply pinnatifid, segments linear-lanceolate obtuse, sterile 

 ones serrulate all approximate about \ an inch long, basal 

 veins monarcuate the rest free and forked rarely a solitary 

 areole at the base of the costule, stipes very long 5-6 feet 

 stout rich castaneous and as well as the paler-coloured rachises 

 very smooth and glossy. — Ag. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 69. Pt. 

 umbrosa, IVall. Cat. w. 109 {7iot of Br.). Pt. pellucens, Ag. 

 Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 4.S ? Pt. connexa, /. Srn. Fil. Philip, in 

 Hook. Bot. Journ. iii. p. 405 {name only). Pt. pectinata, 

 Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal, p. 15} (Agardh refers to this Pt. 

 aspericaulis. Wall., which is however a slight var. of Pt. 

 qiiadriauinta). 



Hab. East Indies: Kumaon, Blinhworfh, in Wall. Cat. n. 109 {Herb. Nosir.), 

 Strachey and Winterbottom ; N. W. India, Ed.geworth ; Gurhwal, T. Thomson 

 (». 1256); Sikkim, Hooker and Thomson, n. 146 a, and 150 b ; Khasia, Hooker 

 and Thomson, n. 150 d, Griffith, Simons. Luzon, Cuming, n. 204, Tfios. Lohh, 

 n. 481. — It was no doubt the striking resemblance of this Fern to Pt. tripartita, 

 S\v., which induced Agardh to place it in his § Litol)rochia ; so striking in fact 

 that I know no character by which it can be distinguished from that species, save 

 by its almost entirely free venation ; for if there is now and then seen a solitary 

 anastomosing of the veins beyond that of the basal ones, it is by no means the 

 normal condition of the plant. It is as much a Campteria as Pt. biaurita. The 

 great size of the frond, however, the compound ramification, the comparatively 

 small size of the ])innules, and the very numerous short and approximate seg- 

 ments, readily distinguish it. Mr. J. Smith is of opinion that the Pt. pectinata 

 of Don is the same as this; and also the Pt.ppllncens of Ag. (see p. 191) : but 

 the description of the venation of the latter shows that that is of the section 

 Eupteris, or it may, like Pl.nemoralis, exhibit the venation sometimes oi Eupteris 

 and sometimes of Campteria. 



{Species and its affinity unknown to me.) 



77- Pt. (Campteria) Gardneri, Fee; "fronds divided, ra- 



