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PLATYOERIUM. 



PlATYCEEIUM BIFORME, (Bl.) Fronds ample, bifarious at length glabrous ; sterile ones imbricated, very thick and 

 corky towards the base, subrotund but very Varied in circumscription, lobed and sinuated at the margin, coarsely reticulato-venose ; 

 fertile fronds (geminate V) rather long — stipitate of great size, 5-6 and more feet long ! — from a subcuneate base repeatedly dichotomons 

 the segments loriform flaccid and pendent, fertile segments quite different from the rest, forming a large reniform stipitate shield-like 

 receptacle 6-8 inches or more in diameter, wholly soriferous beneath, except at the margin. — Hook Sp. FiL v. 285 ; BL FiL Jav. p, 14. 

 t 18., Pr. J. Sm.Hook. in Gard. Chron.for 1858,p. 764;— Neuroplatyceros, Fee. Acrost. p. 104; — Acrostichum, . Sw. Syn> FiL p x \l% 

 Willd, Sp. PI v. p. Ill ; — A fuciforme, WalL Gat n. 20; — Platycerium eoronarium, Desv* 



The specimen figured is from Java, '(Calcutta Herb.) 



Hab. Burmah, Mergui, Singapore, Malay Peninsula and Islands, Java, Borneo, Philippine Islands, 



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