546 NAMKS AND OBSERVATIONS ON INDIAN PLANTS. 



suggested by this plant, which has its flowers in a capitulum. 

 — Browns MSS. 



CoMETES ABYssiNicA. (Browii MSS.) Tab. 18. 



FoLiis lineari-lanceolatis, mucronatis, pungentibus ; sti- 

 pulis liberis; raraulis pulvereo-pubescentibus, scabris; 

 fructus involucri ramulis pinnatis, patulis. — Brown MSS. 



Saltia abyssinica. Brown apud Salt, in Itin. Abyssin. 

 Append. B. p. 376. 



•■»] Abelmoschtjs. 



Calyx 5-dentatus, spathaceus, deciduus, cinctus involucre 

 {calyce exteriore) 5 — 10-partito. Stigmata 5. Capsula 

 5-locularis, valvis medio septiferis, polysperma. Semina 

 calva. — Brown MSS. 



•»] Sph^ropteris. 



Involucra dorsalia, e medio venulse orto, pedicellata, 

 sphserica, clausa, verticahter dehiscentia, bivalvia. Cap- 

 sule pedicellatse, receptaculo communi convexo insi- 

 dentes. — Brow?i MSS. 



Habitus Aspidii, caudice nullo, frondibus decompositis, 

 venulis subtiis glandulosis, stipite rachique paleaceis. — 

 Genus nimis forsan affine Diacalpi, Blume Enum. Plant. 

 Javan. p. 241 (fide speciminis Javanici a Domino Hors- 

 field anno 1818 communicati), quae similis habitu, venulis 

 glandulosis, medio soriferis, involucre sphserico, clauso, 

 reticulato, areolis snbrotundis, parietibus moniliformibus, 

 nodulosisve ; diversa involucro sessili, laceratim dehiscente, 

 capsulis vix pedicellatis, et receptaculo obsoletiori insiden- 

 tibus. Hoc ultimo charactere et reticulatione involucri a 

 Cyatheis nonnuUis (involucro e medio venae orto) prsesertim 

 distinguenda ; arctiore tamen affinitate nixa cum Woodsia, 

 mediante specie mexicana {W. mexicana Nob.) quae, ni 

 fallor, PJiysematium molle, Kaulf. in Regensb. Bot. Zeit. 

 1829, 1 Band, p. 341, cui eel. auctor attribuit involucrum 



