778 



Capsules sessile, placed in 2 rows on the inner face of spikes, which 

 form a more or less compound panicle (fertile segment). 



Mostly small, erect plants. Rhizome short, erect. Each frond with a 

 barren and a fertile segment placed on the same stipe, the fertile segment 

 arising from the base or the centre of the barren one, which is once or more 

 times pinnatisect; veins free. Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil, tab. IX, fig. 75; Dieis, in 

 Engl. & PranU, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 259, B. 



Ferns inhabiting different zones and climates. 



Arrangement of the sections^ 



% 1. EUBOTRYCHIUM. Fronds always naked. (Not in Malaya). 

 § 2. PHYLLOTRICHIUM. Fronds hairy, at least when young. 



§ 2. PHYLLOTRICHIUM. 



•{■. Fertile segment arising from the base of the barren one. (1) B. daucifolium. 

 •{•.•{■. Fertile segment arising from the centre of the barren one. 



(2) B. lanuginosum. 



• (1) B. daucifolium. Wall., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 4; Hk. &6rev., 

 Ic. Fil., tab. CLXI; B. subcamosurh. Wall., Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. LXVIII. 



Stipes stout, 15 — 30 c.M. long. Barren segment 15-30 c.M. long, + 

 as broad, deltoid, 3-pinnatifid to 5-pinnate, on a petiole 2'/2 — 15 c.M. long. 

 Lowest pinnae largest. Ultimate segments '/j — ' c.M. broad, finely toothed. 

 Texture herbaceous; surfaces at length naked. Panicle 5 — 10 c.M. long, rather 

 loose, long-stalked, arising from the base of the barren segment. 



Philippines, Java; Ceylon, North. India. 



(2) B. lanuginosum, trail., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 366; B. 

 virginianum, Sm. [virginicum, Willd.), I'ar lanuginosum, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 

 471; Ferns S.I. tab LXVII; — var. nanum, Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 187. 



Stipes 772—45 C.M. long. Barren segment 10—40 c.M. each way, deltoid. 



