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taken Fee as my guide; hut I wish I could satisfy myself thai his chaacters taken 

 from the spores and those from the " sporangiastcrs" (abortive capsules) were of the 

 same importance that he considers them to l)e. His species, too, are here adopted, 

 altliough authentically unknown to me ; and this I think only a jjroper compli- 

 ment to pay to one who has studied the subject so deeply. 



§ 1. Sori superficial {supracuticulares). — T.enioi'sis, /. !>iii. 1-18. 



A. Spores reniform. \-\'l 



a. Fronds costaie. 1-8. 



* Sporangiastcrs cyathiform or cupuVform. 1-9. 



1. V. Amboinensis, Fee ; " fronds smooth submembraiiaceous 

 falcate acuminate tapering below into a petiole, costa slender 

 disappearing below the apex, veins curved equal approximate, 

 sori closely marginal, cuticle of the margin resembling a false 

 involucre, caudex flexuose contorted scaly, scales cancellate 

 rigidly toothed at the margin." Fee, P^ittur. p. 44. /. 1./. 1. 



Hal). Amboyna, Lalillardiere. Martaban, Parish. — Fronds 4-5 inches long, 

 3-4 lines wide, exactly lanceolate. My sjjecimens from Martaban quite accord 

 with the figures and description of Fee, except that the veins are very obscure. 

 M. Fee observes that it well deserves the name of ensiformis, which Willdenow 

 liad given it in his herbarium. 



2. V, loricea, Fee; "fronds pendulous flexile thick opaque 

 linear tapering below into a long striated stipes, costa nearly 

 plane not extending to the apex, veins matiifest on the frond 

 rather remote, sori marginal continuous with a broad sulcus, 

 spurious involucre thick, caudex creeping unequal, scales can- 

 cellate cinereous glossy lanceolate dentate at the apex verylong 

 entire." Fee, Vitiar. t. \.f. 2. — " V. planipes, Kze." Metten. 



Hah. Java, " Zollinger, n. 1001." — "One of the longest species of the genus 

 (2 feet long, 5 lines wide), easily recognized by the breadth of the soriferous groove 

 (canal) which receives the sori." I possess specimens fiom Griflith, from Eastern 

 Hengal, which sufliciently accord with the figure and description of this Vittaria ; 

 but the veins arc here also very obscure and quite undistinguisbalile externally. 



.3 ? V. Forbesii, Fee, Vittar. p. 15. — Teeniopteris, Hook. Gen. 

 Fil. t. 7fi B. [analysis and name cnh/). 



Hah. Mozambique, Forces. — See remarks on the following species, V. Zeylanica. 



4. V. Zeylaniea, Fee ; " fronds lanceolato-linear acute mem- 

 branaceous and pellucid gradually attenuated at the base 

 flexile pendulous, costa coloured robustprominenton theunder 

 side, canaliculate on the upper side nearly plane towards the 

 apex, veins equal brown forming a very acute angle with the 

 costa, sori continuous in a broad sulcus." Fee. V'lttar. p. 45. /. 

 1./". .3. — Ilaplopteris scolopendrina, Pr. Tent. Pterid. j). 141. 

 t. 5./. 21. Teeniopteris Forbesii, Gen. Fil. t. 70 B. Pteris 

 scolopendrina, Bory, in ll'illd. Sp. PL v. p. 141. Sw. Kyn. Fil. 

 />. 94. Bory, Voy. \\. p. 32-4. 



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