Pruate 49. 
SCHIZAVA (§ Actrinostacnys) pierrata, Sv. 
Fingered Schizea. 
Scuizma ({ Actinostachys) digitata; caudex short, creeping; fronds crowded, 
a span to a foot and a half long, two lines wide, short-stipitate, erect, 
linear, subcoriaceo-membranaceous, the costa prominent and keeled at the 
back; receptacles of the capsules (appendages) narrow-linear, 5-10-12, 
erect, in two secund rows, digitato-pinnate, the margins inflexed, including 
four close-packed lines of numerous, small, obliquely oblong or subpyri- 
form, obtuse capsules, without hairs, of a rich dark-brown chestnut colour, 
the upper half striated longitudinally (forming a kind of annulus), the 
lower half reticulated. 
Scuizma digitata. Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. 150 and 379. 2.4. f.1. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
v. 5. p. 86. Blume, Bn. Fil. Jav. p. 255. 
Actinostacuys digitata. Wall. Cat. n.1. Presi, Suppl. Tent. Pleridogr. p. 73. 
Scuiz@a marginata. Wall. in Herb. 1823. 
ACROSTICHUM digitatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.1524; and in Amenit. Acad. v.1. 
plbT. fil. Fl. Zeyl. p.379. 
Has. India, Ceylon; Burmann, Gardner, n. 1182, Thwaites. Tranquebar, Klein, 
Rottler. Singapore, Wallich. Philippine Islands, Cuming, . 371. Chitta- 
gong, Hook. fil. and Thomson, n. 347. Mergui, Malacca, Khasya, Griffith, 
Parish ; Labuan, Thos. Lobb, Motley; Bonin Islands, C. Wright ; Java, 
Blume, Thos. Lobb. Feejee Islands, Seemann, n. 793. New Caledonia, 
C. Moore, growing on dry, bare, exposed situations. Isle of Pines, J. Mac- 
gillivray (stony shady places).—Cultivated at Kew; received from Mr. 
Thwaites, Ceylon. 
This very interesting Schizea, quite new to our gardens, 
may be considered the representative in the East Indies of the 
Schizaa pennula, Sw. (S. trilateralis, Schh. and Hook. et Grev. 
Ic. Fil. t. 54), of Western India and South America, and if 
there were characters worthy of constituting a genus, both 
would be included. Mr. Brown, in his Prodromus, p. 162, has 
a note on the S. digitata ;—“ A congeneribus differt appendice 
digitata, nec pennata, capsulis confertis nec biseriatis, nec extus 
dehiscentibus: an ideo separanda?” This led the excellent Dr. 
Wallich to give the present species the appropriate generic name 
of Actinostachys. But Mr. Brown does not appear to have had 
perfect specimens before him at the time. To me the dif- 
ferences from Schize@a are rather sectional than generic, The 
JANUARY Ist, 1862. 
