TAB. XV. 
Meniscium proliferum, Sw. 
Deciduo pubescens, caudice crassiusculo subrepente fibroso, 
stipitibus casspitosis erectis loagitudine variantibus, frondi- 
bus pedalibus bipedalibus et ultra subcoriaceis glabris 
pinnatis apicibus et in axillis pinnarum repetitim proliferis 
longissime extensis, pinnis 3-6 uncias longis sessilibus 
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi equalibus vel junioribus 
prjecipue inferne dilatato-rotundatis superne auriculatis 
integris vel (adultis) grosse crenato-serratis, venia pinnatis, 
venulis omnibus cum iis oppositis junctis et venas spurias 
intermedias formantibus, soris ovalibus copiosis, singulo in 
singula venula non raro confluentibus. 
Meniscium proliferum, Sw. Syn. Pl.p, 19. and 20^1 . Willd. Sp. 
PL 5. p. 135. 
Polypodium proliferum, Roxb. Herb. Wall. Cat. n. 312, (not 
Kaulfuss.^ 
Polypodium luxurians, Kze. in LinncBa^ 23. p. 280. 
Phegopteris luxurians, Metten. Phegopt. p, 25. 
Goniopteris prolifera, Pr. Tent.p. 183. J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. 
Bot. 3, p. 396. 
Ampelopteris elegans, Kze. Bot. Zeit. 6. p. 114., Moore, Ind. 
Fil. p. Ixiv. ; arid A. firma, Kze. in Linncea, 24, 251. Moore, 
Index. 1. c. 
Hab. India, Koenig. Nepal, Oude, Sylbet, (Wallich,) and 
apparently all over India; from Nilghiri and N. Western 
India, Khasya, and Sikbim, Himalaya in the East, Griffith, 
Hooker^ Jil. and Thomson, Jacquemont,n. 1419, Schmidt, 8fc. 
8fc. Luzon, Cuming, n. 168. Java, Zollinger. 
This is, doubtless, a very sportive plant, but its main 
feature is occasioned by its extraordinary tendency to send 
out new plants from axillary and terminal gemma©, which 
take root, cover a great extent of ground, and hinder the 
real form and structure of the frond from being distinctly 
seen. One can hardly conceive, why so many names should 
have been adjudged to this plant, and even the honor of a 
new genus. 
Fig. 1. Base of a pinna, seen from above, f. 2. Base of a 
fertile pinna, seen from beneath, f. 3. Portion of a fertile 
pinna, from near the middle, seen from beneath ; — magnified. 
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