108 



TEENS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



simple, entire, squamiferous. 6-8 inches long. Veins uniform, 

 reticulated ; areoles large, elongated, trapezoid or hexagonoid. 

 Fen-tile fronds broad, densely sporangiferous on the under side. 



1. H. erinitum, Fie. Acrostichurn crinitum, Sw. Plu.H. 

 FLl. t. 125 ; Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 1 ; Hook. Fil. 

 Fxot. t. 6. Dictycglossum crinitum, J. Stn. Cat. 

 Kew Ferns, 1846. — West Indies. 



32. ANETIUM, Kunsse. 



Vernation uniserial ; sarmentam slender, furnished with thin 

 membranous reticulated shining lanceolate scales. Frosdt 

 distant, simple, oblong-elliptical, acuminate, 6-20 or more 

 inches long, smooth, membraneous. Veins uniform, reticulate 1, 



Genus 32.— Portion of mature frond, under side. Mo. I. 



forming trapezoid or hexagonal transverse elongated Creoles. 

 Receptacles undefined, 1h; sporangia being thinly scattered or 

 collected in small irregular groups over the whole under surface 

 of the frond, or evident on the veins. 



1. A. citrifolium, Splitg. Acrostichium citrifolium, Linn. 

 Plum. Fil. t. 116. Antrophyum citrifolium, Fee. 



