Puate 42. 
SCHIZAA ruprsrris, Br. 
Rock Schizea. 
Scuiz#A rupestris ; caudex slender, subfiliform, repent ; fronds loosely or com- 
pactly tufted, undivided, three to five inches long, linear, plane, costate, 
entire, scarcely denticulate ; sterile ones obtuse, fertile ones tapering up- 
wards, filiformly attenuated at the base into a slender stipes; fructiferous 
spike pinnate, of from six to eight or ten pairs of pinnz, which are spreading 
or secund, linear, laciniate at the margin ; capsules compact, in two rows. 
ScuizmHa rupestris. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 162. Hook. and Grev. Ic. 
Fil. t. 48. Pr. Tent. Pterid. Suppl. p. 14. 
Has. Australia: New South Wales; about Port Jackson, Brown; above Glen- 
more Distillery, Port Jackson, C. Moore ; under damp rocks in the Blue 
Mountains, Fraser, Allan Cunningham ; Swan River, Drummond, n. 225.— 
Cultivated at Kew from plants imported by Mr. Sim, of Foot’s Cray. 
In our ninth number, at Plate 34, we gave a figure of the 
beautiful Schizea elegans.* Our present species of this in- 
teresting genus, if not equal to that in beauty of form, is far 
more rare: being hitherto only known as an inhabitant of Aus- 
tralia ; but since it is now detected at New South Wales, on the 
east coast, and at Swan River on the west, it is probable that it 
will be found occupying a good part of the South Australian 
continent. We wish we had the opportunity of studying other 
species of Australia and of the southern hemisphere, from living 
plants. The characters hitherto given of them are far from sa- 
tisfactory. 
Prats 42. Sterile and fertile fronds of Schizea rupestris, Br.,—nat. size. 
Fig. 1. Apex of a sterile frond,—magnified. 2. Portion of the same, showing 
the venation,—more magnified. 8. Compound fructifying spike. 4. Single 
spike with capsules. 5. Capsule with spores :—all more or less magnified. 
* Since the publication of the remarks on that species, I find myself in pos- 
session of original specimens of S: fluminensis of Mr. Miers, and Mr. Spruce of 
the same supposed species, and am more than ever satisfied that they are merely 
starvelings of S. elegans: the foliaceous portion of the fronds being reduced to 
the smallest size, in some quite obsolete. 
NOVEMBER lst, 1861. 
