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3. HijmempliyUxm polyanthos. (Sw.) Erect or drooping, ovate or oblong, tri-pinnatifid, the segments short, entire, generally 
spreading, sometimes a little waved and flexuose, involucres terminal, ovate, or nearly orbicular, free, or the base slightly sunk, deeply 
2-valved, the valves convex, entire or somewhat erose, stipes terete, naked or moderately winged above,— z^ar. a ; fructifications mostly termi- 
nal on elongated sub-palmated segments, involucres ovate, slightly sunk in the frond. Hook. Sp. Fit. i, 106 H. polyanthos, Sw. Syn 
Fil.,p. 149 ;—Willd. Sp. PI. I. c, p. 531 -—Hediv. Fil. cum. /c. ;— H. abietinum, Kze. PI. Crypt. PcEpp.,p. 109 ;— vix. Hook. H. Jala- 
pense, Chan et ScMecht 171 Liimcea V, j). 619 H. badium, Wall. Cat. n. in, not Hook. et. Grev. ;~B.. ricciasfolium, Klotzch. in Herb. 
Reg. Berol. an Jacq. ? 
Ceylon. (C. P. 1279, 1395.) 
PLATE No. CCLXVII. 
ScHiz^EA. (See page 21.) 
1. Schiza^a digitata. (Sw.) Fronds long, linear, grass-like, 10-15 inches long by 2-3 lines broad, bearing, a digitate fertile crest 
at the apex, crest 8-14 parted to the base, segments 1 inch long by a line broad, sari in 4 series, {i. e., 2 series each side of the costa.) 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3105.) 
PLATE No. CCLXVIII. 
Ophioglossum. (See page 23.) 
1. Ophioglossum pendulum. (L.) Sterile fronds linear-lanceolate, longer than the fertile spike, up to 2 feet long by i to | of 
an inch broad, veins reticulated in very elongated areoles without free veinlets. 
Ceylon, (C. P. 1,409.) 
PLATE No. CCLXLX. 
ADDENDA. 
Gymnogkamma. (See page 77.) 
1. Gymnogramma leptophylla. (Desv.) Root a small annual tufted mass of fibres, stipites tufted, slender, filiform, 1-3; inches 
long, fronds small, delicate, membranaceous very transparent, all fertile, varying from reniform crenated to variously pinnate or bi-tri- 
pinnate, those on the shorter stipes being less compound, pinnae spathulate to obovate,, decurrent, deeply crenated, lobes entire or serru- 
late, veins simple or forked, not reaching to the margin, sori oblong, simple or forked. Desv. Journ. Bot. i, p. 26 — Hook. Sp. Fil. v 136. 
Sir Will. Hooker describes this species as having fertile, and sterile fronds, hut, cdl my specimens have all the fronds fertile. 
Nilgiris— Mahableshwar Hills,— Sattara Fort walls (Bombay Presidency.) 
A very delicate little species only appearing during the rainy season, the specimens figured art from Sattara. I have not succeeded 
in finding it on the Nilgiris, though it has been found by several Collectors, and I have seen specimens collected on rocks between Ooiaca- 
mund and Kotagherry. 
PLATE No. CCLXX. 
Lastrea. (See page 82.) 
5. L(.tstrea imdulata. (Thw.) Stipes paleaceous, fronds tri-pinnate deltoid, racliis geniculato-flexuose, pinnae alternate or sub 
opposite deflexed deltoid-lanceolate with their rachis very flexuose, secondary pinuEe alternate lanceolate, inferior basal ones much the 
largest, pinnules rhomboid-oblong (the lower ones lobed or pinnatifid) more or less decurrent, crenulato-dentate, sori solitary or few 
medial on the veins, indusium reniform, veins terminating within the margin with a thickened apex. Thiv. 3J.S. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3858.) Wattekelle, Kallibokka, elevation 5,000 feet. 
This very distinct and elegant species has just been discovered by Mr. Beckett and named by Mr. Thwaites from whom I 
have just received the frond here figured. 
PLATE No. CCLXXI. 
