112 



P^BJOILOPTBRIS. (See *< Perns of Southern India/' p. 68.) 



J? iECILOPTERIS FLAGELLIFERA, (Wall.) Caudex creeping, paleaceous, thick as a goose quill, stipites a span to a 

 foot and more long (longer of the fertile frond), scaly at the ba3e, f roads firm-membranaeeous, a span to 1-2 feet long pinnate, pinna 

 commonly 3-5, rarely more; sterile pinna), 3-5 inches long, 1J-2 inches wide ; subelliptical 'or oblongo-lanceolate, lateral ones rather 

 suddenly acuminate entire or sinuato-crenate, subcuneate at the base and petiolate, terminal one similar to these but larger, and petiolate 

 or more generally very much elongate and caudate, a foot or I| 2 feet long ! rooting and proliferous at the apex, venation manifest, cos- 

 tules rather wide apart, veins anastomozing, always forming a series, of oblong large areoles close to the costa and costules, nearly uniform 

 in size and shape, the rest of the areoles very irregular and with or without free included simple veinlets ; fertile pinnse much smaller, 

 2-3 inches long, oblong obtuse ; occasionally the cauda of the terminal sterile pinnae becomes fertile, and the lateral sterile pinnae partially 

 soriferous, the capsules in that case chiefly confined to the costules and near to the margin. — Hook. Sp. Fit. v. 258.; — Hook, and Grev, 

 1c. Fil.t. 23. ;Bl. FiL Jav. p. 104, t. 13. ; Cyrtogonium, J.Srn. ;— A heteroclitum, Pr. ; Paecilopteris, Pr. ; — Heteroneuron, Fee. Acrost. 

 p. 92; — Acrostichum diversifolium, Bl. Fil. Ja v. p. 36 ; t. 12 t (sterile frond simple)! — Cyrtogonium, J. Sm. ; — Heteroneuron, Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 91. (excl, syn. ;— Gymnopteris trilobata, J. Sm. ;) — Pascilopteris, Pr. Rheede. Hort. Afalab. x. ii t. ii. 



The specimen figured is from Assam— (Dr. Thomson), 



Hab. Nepal, Assam, Chittagong, Moulmein, Java, Luzon, Malabar (if Sir W. Hooker is correct in referring Rheede. Hort, 

 Malab. xii. t, ii. to this plant — -but I have never detected it any where in Malabar ) 



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