The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 505 



Snd. Here the pinnae are not enlarged into a stipe-clasp- 

 ing base ; taper to a very long fine point, and are (in gene- 

 ral) fertile for only about two-thirds their length. There 

 they have enlarged stipe clasping bases, are rather obtuse 

 pointed, and are fertile almost to the very points. 



5. P. amplexicauUs. R. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 106. P. am- 

 plectens. Wall. Cat. 62, No. 112, (quod nomen delendum.) 



Stipes in tufts, short, somewhat rough. Fronds oblong, 

 (about 2 feet high,) alternately pinnate, smooth ; leaflets 

 sessile, ensiform, rather obtuse, wdth two enlarged, stipe-clasp- 

 ing, rounded lobes at the base ; the barren most finely ser- 

 rulate ; the terminal one greatly longer than the rest. Fruc- 

 tifications occupy the whole margin, except the very apices. 



Nat. of Bengal, in shady, moist places. Also among ruins 

 of brick buildings. Is sometimes parasitical. 



Stipes short, on the forepart channelled, woolly, from 1 to 

 2 feet long. 



Frond linear-oblong, pinnate with an odd one, leaflets 

 below opposite; above frequently alternate; all are sessile, 

 linear, entire, smooth ; at the base broadest, and there 

 obliquely cordate, from 2 to S inches long, and from J to J 

 an inch broad ; in small plants the terminal one is often as 

 long, or even longer, than the rest of the frond. 



Note. — In a good soil, amongst brushwood, or long grass 

 I have found them 3-4 feet high, the terminal leaflet is then 

 as short, or shorter than the rest. 



6. P. linearis. R. 



Stipes rough. Fronds alternately-pinnate, (4-5 feet high ;) 

 leaflets linear, entire, very long, smooth, both sides rounded, 

 and greatly protruded at the base. Fructifications occupy 

 the whole margins, and when most expanded, leave very 

 little of the naked pinnae to be seen. 



Nat. of Amboyna. 



7. P. scandens. R. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 107. Lomaria scan- 

 dens. WiUd. Wall. Cat. 6, No. 36. 



