1244 BENGALI. PLANTS. (Onychium. 
mate pinnules linear, small, almost entirely covered by the fructi- 
fication, Sori situated on a continuous linear receptacle connecting 
the apices of several veins; indusiwm parallel with the margins of 
the segments, linear, opposite, — over the sori, the edge 
ost or quite reaching the mi 
Stipes naked auratum, 
Stipes scaly at the base japonicum. 
2760. Onyentum auRATUM Kaulf.; F. I. C. 96. Pteris daucifolia 
F. I. 759 (Ed. C. B. C.). 
E. aa Tippera ; paces 
A handsome ‘‘ Golden- 
2761, Oiienite's JAPONICUM ae T, IVC. 96. 
Chittagong. 
A handsome ‘“ Golden-Fern.”’ 
1133. Pteris Linn. 
Herbs, small or large, tufted or with a creeping rhizome; 
fronds very various in size, shape, and division, but with the 
margin of the indusium never reaching or even approximating to 
the midrib of the pinne; veins free or variously anastomosing. 
Sori marginal, linear, continuous, situated on a slender, filiform 
receptacle in the axis of the involucre, connecting the apices of 
numerous veins ; indusiwm in shape like the sorus, usually mem- 
branous, at first completely Saat it, ultimately more or less 
spreading, opening towards the mi 
*Veins mostly free :—[p. 124 
e veins quite free ae 1245 
Lowest pinne linear, undivided, margins of pinne entire :— 
Stipes tufted, roughish, woolly when young, harsh when old 
longifolia. 
Stipes single, from an elongated caudex, smooth 
longifolia var. vittata. 
Lowest pinne more or less divided, at least on some fronds :— 
jLowest fertile pinne usually merely forked or 3-fid :—[p.- 1245] 
t least the sterile _—— spinulose-serrate ...creticd. 
Margins of the pinne never spinulose :— 
§Margins of sterile pinne aR ih pie crisped or crenulate ; 
yeinlets passing horizontally outwards from midrib [p. ae 
