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3. T. caruifolmm. R. 



Stipes smooth, greatly longer than the tri-quadripinnatifid 

 fronds, ultimate segments thereof sublinear and decurrent. 

 Fructifications lateral, subpedicelled, with most long filiform 

 columns. 



Nat. of Prince of Wales' Island, where it grows in small 

 tufts, about 4 or 6 inches high. 



4. T. lucidum, R. Davalha elegans. Willd. Wall. Cat. 64. 

 No. 253. 



Scandent, stem scaly ; stipes smooth, fronds polished and 

 firm ; subalternately quadripinnate ; ultimate segments sub- 

 lanceolate, serrate, gashed, or pinnatifid. Fructifications 

 solitary, and sunk in the sinuses round the margins of the 

 leaflets, compressed. 



Nat. of Prince of Wales' Island, where it was found by W. 

 Hunter, Esq. 



I could discover no column in this plant; is it therefore 

 to be referred to Hymenophyllum ? The habit is rather firm 

 and polished. 



5. T. malayanum. R. 



Stipes and rachis polished, fronds (4-5 feet high,) quadri- 

 pinnate ; ultimate divisions small and cuneate, with the flat- 

 tened fructifications, (I or 2,) in their truncated apices, and 

 composed of two valves, without column. 



Nat. of the Malay Islands. 



22. MARATTIA. 



Capsules oval, bursting longitudinally on their upper side; 

 disclosing several cells in each division. 



1. M. pinnata. R. Angiopteris crassipes. Wall. Cat. 63, 

 No. 187. 



Fronds (4-5 feet high,) smooth, generally oppositely pin- 

 nate, leaflets linear-lanceolate, entire, poHshed. Capsules 

 numerous, crowded (cross-ways) into a broad, uninterrupted 

 line, a little within the margin. 



Nat. of the Molucca Islands » 



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