124 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
T e next species of the genus to be published was one found in 
ae or 1779 by J. G. Konig in Siam. He o a parcel of plants 
. F. Miiller in 1788, and among them this Plutycerium, which 
he named Osmunda coronaria. Miller oes. in a the Halle Natur- 
Natw orickae: Desvaux included "4 among species of his genus 
Platycerium “A P. coronaria Des ing A. biforme Sw. as a 
synonym. hen Blume pabkiabod his onisuon and figure in his 
Flora Jave (1828), (Wilices, p. 44, t.18), he named it Platycerium 
books. Wallich distributed specimens (No. 20 in his ey) from 
one with the name “ Acrostichum fuciforme Wall. Herb. 
x third species was added to the genus . the plant described 
by Palisot-Beauvois in the Flore d’Qware, p. 2 (1806), and figured 
tab. 2. He applied to it the name Acrosticum stemaria, given b 
Commerson to a plant in Herb. Juss. f Madagascar, which was 
Pali 
may be an allied species, vena it might be the same. Desvau swe 
he separated the genus in his Prodrome, l.c. p. 213, included this 
lant as P. stemmaria Desv. Fee, in = revision = the Acrostichee, 
words of Plukenet’s descriptive n na hey were in conformity 
with the binomial nomenclature introduced by Linneus many years 
thereaf H placed it Platycerium as 
ea quoting as a synonym ‘‘ Neuroplatyceros Aithiopicus 
Plu 
Welwitsch found a new species of this genus in Angola, which 
: communicated to Baker, who referred it to P. stemmaria Pal.- 
-, though he pobaied Welwitsch’s name P. angulense, with a 
diaeehpiod sufficient to enable one to identify it, in as aa Filicum, 
p. 425 (1868). In 1870 Schweinfurth found the sa me species in his 
expedition to Niam-Niam, and in the following year published a 
description and hens: of it in Bot. Zeit. xxix. 361, under the — 
P. Elephantotis Schweinf. Baker, in his New je (1892), ¢ 
siders Schweinfu aie sid to be identical with Welwitsch’s, a 
places it under P. ethiopicum Hook., that is, P. stemmaria Desv., from 
which it is certainly different. — other species of Pistgeoien 
have happily as yet no synonym 
; The synonymy of these Spadina will consequently be as fol- 
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