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peltate receptacle, which unites them to the common axis, or 

 rachis. 



Nat. of Amhoyna and Bengal. Fructifies during the rains 

 in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. 



2. O. lanceolata. R. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 89.=^ 

 Scapes radical, naked, cylindric. Fronds simple, lanceo- 

 late, waved, and scalloped. 



8. ACROSTICHUM. 



Fructifications occupying almost the whole of the under 

 surface of the fronds, without any other involucre than little 

 scales, or hairs interspersed amongst the capsules, which are 

 girt with an elastic ring. 



1. Acrostichum ramentaceum. R. 



Petioles of the barren leaves short, (2-3 inches,) and 

 shaggy ; of the fertile long, (10-15 inches,) and smooth ; barren 

 leaves linear-cordate ; fertile cordate-sagittate ; all have entire 

 margins. 



Nat. of Chittagongf and grows in the earth. Intermixed 

 amongst the numerous crowded capsules, are many pretty 

 long brown filaments. 



2. A. heterophyllum. Linn, spec, 152S. 



Parasitic, creeping. Fronds entire, both sides clothed 

 with minute stellate pubescence ; the barren oblong, the fer- 

 ile cylindric. Fructifications of single, pedicelled capsules, 

 mixed amongst much, soft, short, downy pubescence. 



Maretta-mala-maravara. Rheed. Mai. 12, i. 39. 



Nat. of the Malay Islands, Sunderbunds, &c. 



3. A. radiatum. Keen. MS 8. Roxb. Icon. 14, t. 90. 

 Asplenium radiatum. Sw. Wall. Cat. p. 63. No. 197. 



Fronds long-stiped, pinnatifid in a semicircle, (fan-shap- 

 d,) rays more or less divided, with truncate, ragged extremi- 

 ties. Petioles 3-sided and grooved. 

 A, australe. Vahls. symbolcc. 1 , t. 25. 



* Appears to be a species of Acrostichum. — W. G. 



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