Notes on Indian Botany, 1 1 



This species of Anemia is very closely related to the Brazi- 

 lian A, flexuosa, and on comparing it with a fine suite of 

 specimens of that species, which my Herbarium contains from 

 Brazil, I find that A. Wightiana is distinguished from it by 

 being more densely villous all over, by being decidedly bipin- 

 nate, and by the rachis of the pinnal being straight, not 

 flexuose. The spikes are, besides, more loosely paniculate 

 than they are in A, flexuosa J 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE I. 



Fig. 1 and 2, Anemia Wightiana, Nat. Size ; 3, a pinna ; 4, a por- 

 tion of the fructified part of the fertile frond ; 5, sporangium ; 6, do. 

 burst ; 7, a sporule : — all magnified. 



Kandy, 1st Dec. 1845. 



Notes on Indian Botany, By Robert Wight, M.D., F.L.S., 

 Imp, Acad, Nat. Curios. Bonn, 



Some years ago, I published under the name of Nimmonia, 

 a plant, which on further acquaintance, I found belonged to 

 an already existing genus, requiring the reduction of my 

 supposed new one. Since then, I have been anxious to 

 meet with another to which I might, appropriately, transfer the 

 name of that much respected person, and preserve in the re- 

 cords of our science, the memory of one, well meriting the dis- 

 tinction, as well for his own labours, as for the able manner 

 in which he assisted in the preparation of, and finally editing, 

 Graham 5 s " Catalogue of the plants growing in Bombay and 

 its vicinity/ 5 Such a plant has recently, through the kindness 

 of Mr. Law of the Bombay Civil Service, fallen in my way, 

 and is the more appropriate, as having been partially examined 

 and described by Mr. Nimmo, who indicates the probability 

 of its forming the type of a new genus. The plant I am about 

 to describe, if the same as Mr. Nimmo 5 s, of which I think 

 there can hardly be a doubt, certainly does form the type of 

 a new and most distinct genus, referable to the tribe Trichiliete, 



