483 The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr, Roxburgh, 



and margin ; though when the fronds grow old their margins 

 become revolute, and appear almost to touch the spots. 



Involucre none. While the fronds are young, the spots 

 are clothed with the same stellate down which clothes the 

 frond underneath. 



2. P. attenuatum, R. 



Parasitic, creeping, stipes alternate, smooth. Fronds linear 

 lanceolate, rather obtuse, much attenuated at the base, both 

 sides smooth. Fructifications solitary, very large. 



Nat. of Pullo Pinang. 



3. P. glabrum. R, Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 93. Wall. Cat. p. 

 10, No. 281. 



Parasitical, rooting. Fronds subsessile, linear-lanceolar, 

 from premorse to acute, smooth, and fleshy. Fructifications 

 scattered in numerous dots, below the apex of the frond. 

 Involucres obscure. 



Beng, Chitteea-borah. 



Nat. of Bengal. Found near Calcutta on the trunks of 

 large old trees, &c. where there is much shade and humi- 

 dity. 



Root perennial, creeping, with many ramous dark colour- 

 ed fibres, generally covered with moss, bending in various 

 directions, rough with umbilicated tuberosities, (the remain- 

 ing sites of the fallen leaves,) otherwise the surface, when 

 cleaned of earth, &c. is smooth, and of an olive colour. 



Fronds numerous, erect, sub-sessile, simple, lanceolate, 

 entire, veinless, fleshy, very smooth on both sides ; from \2 

 to 24 inches long, and from 2 to 3 broad, fertile and barren 

 fronds alike. 



Fructifications in minute dots, irregularly scattered over 

 the upper third or half of the frond. 



Capsules numerous, kidney- shaped, with an elevated, cre- 

 nulated, brown band round the convex side of the transpa- 

 rent integument ; each contains some minute grains, of a most 

 beautiful bright shining gold colour. 



