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TBICHOMANES. 



THICHOMANES JaVANICUM. (Bl.) Roots long, coarse-descending wiry fibres, stipes and rachis setose, fronds tufted 

 lanceolate rigid (black when dry) pinnated, pinnse gradually smaller towards the base and apex (the upper ones fertile) sessile or sub- 

 petiolate, oblong, obliquely cuneate at the base, obtuse at the apex, serrate or crenate, with some of the serratures on the lower margin 

 long and bristle-like (formed by excurrent veins) veins generally terminating within the margin but often touching the margin, and ex- 

 current, involucres urceolate, with the mouth entire 2 to 4 on the upper margin of the superior pinnae which are gradually more and 



more contracted towards the apex of the frond receptacles very much exserted. BL En. FiL Jav. p. 224. Hook. Sp. FiL 1.130; 



T. rigidum. Wall. Cat. n. 161 not Sw. ;— T. setigerum Wall. Cat n. 158;— T. rhoinboideum. J. Sm. En. FiL Philipp. ;— T. curvatum. 

 /. Sm ; L c. ;— T. aiatum Bory in Duperrey Toy. Bot. p. 282. t. 38./. 2. not Sw. 



The specimen figured is from Birmah (Parish) 



Hab. Birmah, Chittagong (Dr. Anderson), Java, Singapore, Penang, Malay Islands, Phillippines, Oualan. 



PLATE No, CLXXX. 



