The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 507 

 Hind. Kull-k'ha. 



Common in most parts of India, sometimes the margin is 

 brokenj when it resembles an Adiantum, and is very like 

 A. lunulatum, but at all times sufficiently distinct. 



9. P. multifida. R. 



Stipes polished, black-purple ; barren fronds cordate-lo- 

 bate ; fertile very long-petioled, pedato-bipinnatifid, with 

 long, ensiform, acute segments. 



A terrestrial, elegant species. The barren fronds about a 

 foot high ; the fertile from 2 to 3 feet. It is a native of the 

 province of Chittagong. 



10. P. dimidiata. R. Pteris semipinnata. Linn. Wall. Cat. 

 62, No. 97. 



Stipes polished, brown, fronds alternately-semi-bipinnate, 

 smooth, (about 3 feet high ;) leaflets halved, linear, and en- 

 tire on the upper side of the nerve ; broad and pinnate, or 

 deeply pinnatifid on the under ; segments thereof entire, li- 

 near-oblong. Fructifications round the whole margins. 



Nat. of Chittagong. Is one of the most beautiful Ferns I 

 have ever seen. 



11. P. bicolor R. Cheilanthes dealbata. Wall. Cat. 61, 

 No. 71. 



Stipes polished, dark brown, filiform; fronds (3-12 inches 

 high,) bipinnatifid ; pinnas opposite, pinnatifid ; segments ob- 

 tuse, crenate, green above, perfectly white underneath. In- 

 volucre brown, with lacerated margin. 



Nat. of the mountains north of Rohilcund. 



12. P. pectinata. R. 



Stipes smooth ; fronds subbipinnate, smooth ; pinnae few, 

 opposite ; segments thereof entire, linear, falcate, obtuse, 

 confluent. Fructifications occupy the whole of the margins, 

 except the very apex. 



Nat. of the Moluccas. 



13. P. quadriaurita. Rets. Obs. 6, N. 86. 



Stipes somewhat scabrous ; fronds opposite, and alter- 

 nately-bipinnatifid, (3 or 4 feet high, and the petioles about 



