476 The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh, 



Nat. of Bengal, Moluccas, &c. in cool shaded places, where 

 it appears, and fructifies during the rainy season. 

 Root fibrous. 



Stems or rather stipes few, compressed, erect, smooth, 

 2 or 3 inches long. 



Fronds cordate, entire, waved, a little rugose, nerveless, 

 but with many small, not very conspicuous, reticulated veins ; 

 smooth on both sides ; about two inches long, and one and 

 a half broad. 



Scape erect, issuing from the upper part of the stipe, 

 (petiole,) on the foreside ; simple, a little compressed, smooth, 

 from 3 to 6 inches long. 



Spikes simple, distichous, not jointed, except the openings 

 of the cells can be so called ; tapering a little, fine pointed. 



Cells numerous, arranged along the margins of the spikes, 

 opening transversely near the base. 



Seeds most numerous, globular, white. 



I have, in luxuriant plants, found the stem divided into 

 two towards the top, with a leaf and spike to each division. 



Ophioglossum simplex. Rumph. Herb, Amb, tab, 68, f, 

 2, appears more like O, vulgatum, than the above described 

 plant. 



2, O.filiforme. R, Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 86. Lygodium mi- 

 crophyllum, Br. 



Perennial, scandent, filiform, smooth. Fronds conjugate- 

 pinnate : leaflets subcordate, with the spikelets of the fructi- 

 fications on their anterior margins. 



Tsjeria valli-panna. Rheed, Mai, \2, t, 34. 



Adiantum volubile minus. Rumph. Amb, 6, t, 32, f, 3. 

 Hydroglossum scandens, Willd. 5, 77. 



Nat. of various parts of India, time of fructifying the rainy 

 season. 



Root running under the surface of the ground, towards 

 the apex olive, while the older parts are of dark rust colour, 



