PTERIDEiE. 

 LITOBROCHIA. (See Ferns of Southern India, p. 73.) 



LlTOBROCHIA. PEDATA. (L.) Caudex short thick erect or declined copiously rooting, fronds fasciculate, when mature 

 coriaceous opaque cordate tripartito-pedate, lateral primary divisions bi-partite on the inferior side or on both sides pinnatifid, terminal 

 one pinnatifid generally cuneate and narrowed at the base, the segments with entire lobes or again pinnatifid, ultimate ones oblong with 

 move or less acute sinuses, the margin of the sterile plant crenulated, sori continuous, involucres narrow entire, veins everywhere 

 anastomosing so as to form a network of oblong hexagonal areoles, stipes terete ebony-black hispid at the b&SQ.—Hook Sp. Fil. ii. 203— 

 Tteris pedata, Linn. Sp. PL P . 1532.— Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 105.— Langsd. et. Fisch. Ic. Fit. p. 12. et 20.— Willd. Sp. PI. p. 358.— &M*. 

 Fil. p. 91 1. 100— Raddi. Fil. t. 65. /. 3. *. 66 and 66 6.— Br. Prodr. Nov. Boll. p. 155.— Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3,247, and Fil. Exot. t. 34— 

 Pt. palmata, Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 357.— Pt. collina, Raddi. Fil. Bras. p. 44. t. 65. /. 1, 2.— Pt. varians, Raddi. I. c. t. 64— Pt. 

 Mysurensis, Wall. Cat. n. 87/4— Pt. polytoma, Eze. inLinncea, xxiii. p.p. 289 and 322— Litobrochia pedata, Pr. Tent. Plerid. p. 

 149 -Moore hid. Fil. i. p. xliv— Cassebeera pedata, J. Sm. Gen. of Ferns p. 47, and En Ferns in Sort. Kew. p. H.-Doryopteris 

 pedata, /. Sm. Cut. Kew. Ferns, p. 4 and Cat. of Cult. Ferns, p. 35. -Fee. Gen. Fil. p. 133— Hemionitis, prof unde laciniata, &c, 

 Plum. Am. p. 24. I. 34. Fil. p. 130. t. 152. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein (Rev. Parish.) 



Hab. West Indies, Jamaica, St. Domingo, Cuba, Martinique, Brazil, Island of Trinidad, Peru, Chacapoyas, Columbia, New 

 Granada, Venezuela, Galapagos, Tropical New Holland— Pulney Hills (Dr. Wight), Nilgiris (Rev. E. Johnson,) in Herb. Hook— Burmah. 



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