10 New Species of Anemia. 



causes which influence the Geographical conditions of both 

 plants and animals, but there is, no doubt, something far be- 

 yond them, which still remains to be discovered. 



The species of Anemia, which I have now to describe, was 

 first found by Dr. Wight in the year 1844 ; and in the Febru- 

 ary of the following year, I had the pleasure of accompanying 

 him to the locality where it grows, and obtaining a supply 

 of specimens, during a month of delightful botanizing, which 

 we had together, on the Neelgherry Mountains. 



ANEMIA WIGHTIANA, Gardn. 



Plate I. 



A. tota dense ferruginea villosa, fronde sterili oblonga bi- 

 pinnata, pinnis oppositis ovato-oblongis subsessilibus, pin- 

 nulis oppositis sessilibus oblongis obtusis inferioribus lobatis, 

 fertili apice tripartita, partitionibus duabus fertilibus ovato- 

 oblongis laxis tripinnatis, tertia sterili subaequalia ovata bi- 

 pinnata. 



Hab. — In an open, bushy, rocky place, below Sispara, on 

 the Malabar slopes of the Neelgherries, at an elevation of 

 about 5,000 feet. February 1845. 



Descr. — Whole plant densely covered with long ferruginous 

 colored villi. Caudex creeping. Fronds csespitose. Stipes of the 

 sterile fronds flattened, sulcate on the upper surface, and from 2J-5 

 inches long : frond 4-5 inches long, oblong, bipinnate : pinned op- 

 posite, subsessile, ovate-oblong, 12-15 lines long: pinnules opposite, 

 sessile, oblong, obtuse, the lower ones somewhat lobed. Stipes of 

 the fertile frond 8-10 inches long, semi-terete, sulcate on the upper 

 surface : fronds 3, two of which are fertile from 5-8 inches long, 

 ovate-oblong, loosely tripinnately paniculate, the third sterile, about 

 equal in length with the others, ovate, and in other respects similar 

 to the true sterile fronds. Sporangia placed in two series on the 

 back of the lateral veins, sessile, globose, with a very small portion 

 of the apex crowned with brown radiated striae, the rest of a pale 

 colour, and vascularly reticulated. Sporales triangular, glabrous, 

 striated. 



