250 ACROSTICHUM, § STENOCHL^NA. 



Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 164. Filix fronde pinnata, etc., Limi. 

 Zeyl. 71. 425. Burm. Zeyh p. 100. t. 46. Rumph. Amh. vi. 

 p. ^\. t. 31. — Abnormal forms : Scolopendrium D'Urvillei, 

 Bory, in Duperrey, Voy. Corj. Bot. p. 273. /. 37- /• 1 {very 

 bad). Kze. in Schk. FU. Snppl. p. 9. t. 5. Davallia achilleei- 

 folia, TValL Cat. n. 248. Hook. Sp. FU. l p. 195. t. 56. D. 



Hab. East India, Java, Ceylon, Malabar, Cochin, Madras Peninsula, Bengal. 

 Assam, Sikkim, Silhet, Chittagong, Parish, n. 146, Griffith, Hooker fil. and 

 Thomson, Singapore, Wallich, Schomburgk, Sir W. Norris. China, Beechey. 

 Siam, Schomburgk. Luzon, Cmning, n. 133, 229, and Isle of Negros, n. 347. Fiji 

 Islands, Brackenridge, Seemann. — This fine Acrostichum is liable to produce the 

 same peculiar abnormal forms described under A. sorbifolium, thus showing a 

 strong generic identity. 



111. A. (Stenochleena) Meyerianum, Hook.; caudex very 

 long stout partiall)^ and imperfectly scaly scandent rooting 

 parasitically on trees, stipites distant a foot or more long 

 stout firm and glossy, fronds dimorphous large 2-3 feet long ; 

 5/e/v7e ones pinnated firm pergamentaceous (rather than co- 

 riaceous) glossy, pinnee from a span to a foot and more long 

 %-\\ inch wide oblong-lanceolate often very finely acu- 

 minate obliquely cuneate at the base, base of the petiole 

 confluent (not articulated) bearing a gland, the margin 

 thickened spinuloso-serrate, veins very close compound ex- 

 tending to and uniting with the thickened margin ; fertile 

 fronds ample bipimiate with a gland at the axil of the pri- 

 mary pinnae, pinnules very numerous 2-3 inches long nar- 

 row-linear sessile or nearly so entirely soriferous beneath ex- 

 cept at the narrow but scarcely involucriform margin. — Hook. 

 Gard. Ferns, t. 16. Stenochlsena, iV. Epim. Bot. Lomaria, 

 Kze. Lomariobotrys, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 45. Lomaria se- 

 cunda, IFall. Cat. n. 34. L. longifolia. Wall. Cat. n. 61. 

 L. tenuifolia, " Desv.^* and Boj. Hort. Maurit. p. 407, and L. 

 grandis?, p. 407. 



Hab. South Africa, Natal, Drege, Guienzius. Mauritius, Wallich. East coast 

 of tropical Africa, Bojer. Madagascar, Metier. Isle of Nissobe, Boivin. — Well 

 distinguished by its ample blpinnate fertile fronds, with most copious pendent 

 pinnules. 



112. A. (Stenochleena) laurifolium, Hook.; caudex?, stipes?, 

 fronds firm thin-coriaceous subnitent 1 ^-2 feet and probably 

 more long pinnate ; sterile pinnse approximate subpetiolate 

 not jointed on the rachis and not glandular on the petiole 

 6-8 inches long H-l| inch wide oblong acuminate trun- 

 cated and broad at the base or very obtusely and obliquely 



