in Bengal. In his notes, Dr Hamilton has correctly ob- 
served, that BuRMANN's figure in the Thesaurus Zeylanicus, 
has the pinnae much less deeply cut than in our plant ; still, I 
think that it is intended for the same species. 
WiLLDENOw's Adiantum hirsutum seems to differ scarce- 
ly at all from this. 
Fig. 1. Single pinna. Fig. 2. Extremity of a segment^ with fructification. 
Fig. 3. Indusium forced back, to shew the cluster of capsules attached to 
its under side. Fig. 4. Capsule and seeds.—- more or less magnified. 
