Pruate 36. 
ANEMIA (§ Evanemra) Manproccana, Rad. 
Mandiocca Anemia. 
Avena (§ Euanemia) Mandioccana ; caudex a short erect or oblique rhizome, from 
which arises a cluster of stipites four to six inches long, clothed with spread- 
ing fulvous hairs; fronds a span to a foot long, oblong or ovato-oblong, her- 
baceo-membranaceous, dark-green, pilosulous, acuminate, multijugate, pin- 
nated, pinnatifid only at the very apex, bearing the pair of fertile panicles 
at its base; pinnules one to three inches long, spreading, oblong, obtuse or 
subacuminate, crenato-serrate, superior base truncated and approximate with 
the rachis, inferior margin excised, ecostate; veins flabellate, very close, 
dichotomous ; fertile panicles oblong, acuminate, on stipites about as long 
as themselves. 
Anemia Mandioccana. Raddi, Syn. Fil. p. 23. Fil. Brasil. t. 9.f.1. Presl, 
Suppl. Tent. Pteridogr. p. 90 (not Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 90, which is A. 
Breuteliana, Pr.). J. G, Sturm in Mart. Fl. Bras. p. 198. 
AnEMIa abscissa. Schrad. Goett. Gel. Anz. v. 184. p. 864. 
Anemia collina. Kaulf. En. Fil. p. 52? Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 64. 
Var. radicans ; rachis prolonged at the apex and rooting. 
Aneta radicans. Raddi, Syn. Fil. p. 22. Fil. Bras, p. 10. t.10. Presi, Suppl. 
Tent. Pleridogr. p. 85. 
Has. Brazil; abundant in the Mandiocca district, near Rio Janeiro (whence the 
author’s specific name), Raddi, Sellow, Gardner, Martius, Tweedie, etc. ete. 
Cultivated at Kew. 
Like too many other genera of Ferns, the present one, Auemza, 
requires a careful revision, and, if possible, an attentive study of 
the species in their native localities ; and probably the thirty-eight 
species of true Anemia, and the seven of the group Anemidictyum 
(genus of J. Sm.), and assuredly the forty-eight Brazilian species 
described by J. G. Sturm, will have to be considerably reduced. 
It is certain that our plant here figured is the true 4. Mandvoccana 
of Raddi, for I possess authentic specimens from the author ; 
and probably Moore is correct in referrmg Raddi’s 4. radicans 
to the same species, notwithstanding that all our specimens of 
the latter have narrower fronds, and are radicant or proliferous 
at the apex. It is true these two plants have no distinct costa 
to the pinnules, and hence are distinguishable from 4. Langs- 
dorfiana, Pr:, and from my Anemia Mandioccana (not of Pr.), 
from Trinidad (now referred to 4. Breuteliana, Pr.); yet there 
is what may be called a slender costal vei, excentric it is true, 
SEPTEMBER IsT, 1861. 
