Puare 34, 
SCHIZ AA ELEGANS; a. LATIFOLIA. 
Beautiful Schizea ; broad-leaved var. 
Scuizma elegans; caudex moderately stout, creeping, slightly setose; stipites 
numerous, approximate, ten inches to two feet long; fronds eight to ten 
inches long, broad-cuneate and undivided or broad-flabelliform, coriaceous, 
membranaceous, glossy, more or less dichotomously divided; primary divi- 
sions attenuated into a compressed one-nerved (or costate) petiole, ultimate 
divisions or segments three to four or more inches long, oblong-cuneate, 
from three-quarters of an inch to an inch or more broad, their somewhat 
truncate apices cut into several, subulate, long, costate segments, each 
terminated by a compound falcate spike of fructification, or the whole frond 
is cut into narrow-linear costate segments bearing one or few spikes; spike- 
lets at first secund, afterwards spreading ; capsules mixed with long jointed 
hairs, much exceeding them in length; the venation consists of nearly 
parallel dichotomous veins in the broad segments, a single central vein or 
rib in the narrow ones. 
u., latifolia ; segments broad, with copious dichotomous veins. (PLATE 34.) 
ScuizMa elegans. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 151. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 88. Splitgerd. 
En. Fil. Surinam. 1840, p. 433. 
Scuiz#a cristata. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 88 (Forster’s plant from, the Society 
Islands, which is intermediate between a and 8). 
Lopuipium elegans. Presl, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 17. 
Acrosticuum elegans. Vahl, Symb. v. 2. p. 104. t. 50. 
B. dichotoma ; fronds repeatedly flabellately dichotomous, with narrow costate 
segments. 
Scuizma dichotoma. Sw. Syn. Fil. p.150. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 85. Hook. 
and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 17. Prest, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 15. Brown, Prodr. 
Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 162 (fronds sometimes slightly muricated). 
Ripipium dichotomum. Bernh. in Schrad. Journ. 1800, v. 2. p. 127. t.2. f. 3. 
AcrosticHum dichotomum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1524. Forst. Prodr. n. 415. 
Has. a. latifolia. Trinidad, Van Rohr, Lockhart, Criiger ; Jamaica and other 
West Indian Islands. Tropical America, especially Guiana, Brazil, Co- 
lumbia, Mexico; generally in mountain regions. Pacific Islands: Society, 
Coral, Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, and Queen Charlotte’s group, Forster, 
Beechey, Mathews, C. Moore, Milne, etc., and evidently, by innumerable 
gradations, passing into the 8. dichotoma, Sw., and Hook. and Grev. Ie. 
Fil. t.17.—, dichotoma, Malay Islands, China, Mauritius, Bourbon, Mada- 
gascar, and the Pacific Islands, where it grows in company with a. latifolia, 
exhibiting various intermediate forms, the broad segments of the latter 
splitting not only at the apex but in the disk into narrow ones. Australia 
(common); New Zealand. Rare in South America. Caracas, Birschel ; 
Venezuela, Fendler, 485; Cuba, C. Wright, n. 926. There is no good 
authority for either form of this being found on the continent of India.— 
Cultivated at Kew, where plants were received from Dr. Criiger, of Triudad. 
The genus Schizea of Swartz and Smith has been by Presl 
separated into three genera:—1. Actinostachys, Wallich, three 
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