192 HEMIONITIS. 



2. H. cordata, Roxb. ; caudex a short stout erect rhizome, 

 stipites tufted ebony-black polished clothed with long patent 

 fulvous deciduous hairs, those of the sterile fronds 2-4 inches 

 of the fertile ones 8-13 inches long, fronds subcoriaceous 

 very fulvo-villous when young and subpermanently so be- 

 neath dimorphous ; sterile ones 2-3 inches long 1-2 inches 

 wide cordate obtuse or subacute with a deep sinus ; fertile 

 ones generally larger and broader at the base hastate or 

 sharply trilobo- hastate both with a costa ebony-black beneath 

 and two subobsolete lateral costes within the lobes, venation 

 uniform forming oblong hexagonal areoles, sori copious and 

 equally anastomosing with the veins covering the whole 

 under side of the frond. — Roxb. in Wall. Cat. n. 44. Grijf\ 

 Crypt. PI. of Roxb. p. 500 (H. cordifolia). Hook, and Grev. 

 Ic. PL t. 64. H. sagittata, Fee, Gen. Fil.p. 172. 1. 14. D. 



Hab. India: rich wet soil about CA\c.utta., Roxbure/h, Wallich ; frequent in the 

 Neilgherries, Wight, n. 51, G. Thomson, Hohenacker, n. 1253 ; Cochin, Johnstone ; 

 Ceylon, Gardner, n. 28 and 1309; Moulraeine, Parish, n. 142; Luzon, Thos. 

 Lobb. — The under sides of the fronds, even when destitute of fructification, are 

 tinged with cinnamon colour. 



3. palmata, L. ; caudex a short thick erect rhizome, whole 

 plant copiously pubescent with fulvous soft hairs, stipites 

 tufted purple-ebony very glossy those of the sterile frond 

 2-4 inches long of Xh& fertile ones 6-10 inches, fronds subco- 

 riaceo-membranaceous 2-4 inches long and as much broad; 

 ste7'ile ones generally a little smaller cordato-trilobate, lateral 

 divisions unequally bilobed the lobes obtuse coarsely cre- 

 uate; fertile ones palmato-5-partite, lobes broad-lanceolate 

 acuminate crenato-lobulate, costse 1 to each primary lobe 

 glossy black purple beneath, venation uniform, areoles ob- 

 long hexagonal, sori clothing the whole veins forming a 

 network over them, — Lin7i. Sp. PI. p. 1535. Siv. Syn. Fit. 

 p. 20. Willd. Sp. PL V. p. 129. Hook. Exot. FL t. 53. Schott, 



Gen. FiL t. 9. 



Hab. Tropical America: West Indies; Jamaica, Cuba, C. Wright, n. 774; 

 Dominica, Trinidad, Martinique, Sieber, n. 347, etc.; New Granada, Fendler, n. 

 303; Mexico, Guatemala; Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 3993. 



4. H. Griffithii, Hook. fil. and Thoms. ; caudex?, stipites 

 8-12 inches long villous paleaceous at the base with subu- 

 late scales, fronds coriaceo-membranaceous, villous espe- 

 cially on the venation 8-10-14 inches long 6-8 inches broad 

 cordato-ovate acuminate pinnatifid or oblong or broad-ovate 

 and pinnated, pinnae about nine 6 inches long by 1-1^ inch 



