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fertile segments). — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 459. Nicholson, Dictionary 

 of Gardening, i., p. 55. 



A. crenulata — cre-nu-la'-ta (having small round notches), Mettenius. 



A stove species, native of Java, with fronds bipinnate (twice divided to 

 the midrib) and pinnules (leafits) spear-shaped, terminating in a long, tapering 

 point, and deeply pinnatifid (divided almost to the midrib). The segments 

 (sub-divisions) are narrow and dented, and the sori (spore masses) are 

 disposed from one to four near the base of the midveins. — Hooker, Synopsis 

 Filicum, p. 44. 



A. crinita — cri-ni'-ta (hairy), Hooker. 



This singular and very shaggy-looking, stove species, is a native of Java, 

 Ceylon, and the ISTeilgherries, where, Beddome says, it is found growing in 

 a ravine on the road from Ootacamund to the Davie Shola ; it is also 

 common on the Sisparah Ghat and on the higher ranges of the Anamallay 

 Mountains. The fronds, which when young are densely covered with long, 

 chaffy hairs of a light colour, are borne on stipes (stalks) strongly muricate 

 (furnished with short spines having the appearance of tubercular excrescences) 

 and of a peculiar brown colour. The primary pinnae (principal leaflets) are 

 2ft. long and 10in. broad, furnished with sessile (stalkless) pinnules (leafits) 

 cut down nearly to their midrib ; the lobes thus produced are sickle-shaped 

 and narrow, and have their margins recurved (bent backwards) and toothed. 

 The sori (spore masses) cover the whole of the under-side of the lobes, 

 where they are mixed with finely-dented scales. — Hooker, Species Filicum, 

 i., p. 54. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, p. 20, t. 59. 



A. Currori — Cur-ror'-i (Curror's). Synonymous with A. cethiopica. 



A. decipiens — de-cip'-i-ens (deceiving). This is identical with Heinitelia 

 decipiens of Scott. 



A. decomposita — de-com-pos'-it-a (much divided). A synonym of 

 A. oligocaipa. 



A. decurrens — de-cur'-rens (running down), Hooker. 



A stove species, native of Aneitum, the Samoan Islands, and New 

 Caledonia ; it is very distinct, and not likely to be confounded with any 



