The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 509 



Annual, succulent. Fronds (from 2 inches to 5 feet high ;) 

 the barren decompound, with ultimate divisions broad, and 

 variously lobate ; the fertile super-decompound, vi^ith ulti- 

 mate divisions linear. 



Junglee Jhow of the Bengalis. 



Nat. of various parts of India, in wet places. 



Root fibrous, dark brown annual. 



Stipes between quadrangular and half round, sulcated. 



Fronds^ barren pinnate, with pinnatifid leaflets. Fertile 

 generally super-decompound ; divisions alternate ; leaflets su- 

 bulate, furrowed on the back, smooth ; whole length (stipe 

 included,) from 4 inches to 4 feet. 



Fructifications in a line of numerous, distinct capsules, 

 until ripe, completely hid under the entirely reflected mar- 

 gins of the leaflets. 



Capsules sessile, globular, girt with the usual elastic ring. 



Seeds (or globules,) about 20 in each capsule. 



15. VITTARIA. 



Fructifications in an uninterrupted marginal line. Involu- 

 cre double, uninterrupted ; one from the surface separating 

 outwards ; the other from the margin of the frond turned in, 

 separating inwards. 



1. F. lineata. Smith. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 109. 



Parasitic, stipes very short, compressed ; fronds both fertile 

 and sterile linear, entire, smooth, (from 4 to 8 inches long.) 



Pteris lineata. Linn. 



Nat. of Prince of Wales' Island : thence introduced into 

 the Botanic Garden by Mr. W. Roxburgh, Jun. 



Parasitic with numerous fibrous roots, adhering to the 

 bark of trees or putrid wood. 



Stem scarce any. 



Stipes very short, compressed, smooth. 

 Fronds Hnear-lanceolate, entire, acute, smooth, and slen- 

 der, like a blade of grass ; about 6 inches long, and less 



