TAB. LXXV. 
Actiniopteris radiata, Link. 
Actiniopteris radiata, Link, Fil. Sp. Hort. Berol. p. 80. 
Asplenium radiatum, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 75. Sp. PI. 5. p. 308. 
Acrostichum radiatum, Konig. 
Acrostichum australe, Vahl , Symb. 1. p. 84. t. 25. 
Acrostichum dichotomum, Forsk. FI. JEgypt.-Arab. p. 184. 
Acropteris radiata, Fee, Gen . Fil. p. 76. 
Blechnum radiatum, Presl , Tent . Pterid. p. 102. 
ft. frondibus magis elongatis, segmentis paucioribus vix 
radiatis, apicibus fere omnibus integerrimis subulatis. (See 
Tab. 76, for synonyms and remarks). 
Hab. Arabia, Forskal. Upper Egypt and Cordofan, Kotschy. 
South Africa, Macalisberg, Burke (in Herb. Nostr.) 
Madagascar, Bourbon, ( Swartz ,) Carmichael. Scinde, Dr. 
Stocks. Bombay, Dr. Gibson. Old walls, Madras, common. 
Dr. Wight. ( n . 109.) Mr. Gideon Thomson. Old wall, foot 
of the Limestone hills, near Segain, Northern India, 
Mr. Edgeworth. Moradabad, Dr. Thos. Thomson. Old 
walls, Agra, and at Sikaan in Ava, Dr. Wallich, (Cat. n. 
137.) 
One of the most curious of Ferns, with flabellate leaves 
like a minute Palm, and these leaves or fronds are often seen 
quite drooping and pressed down upon the stipes (more so 
than any of our figures represent them), as if occasioned by a 
joint, or probably by the effect of drought. The stipites 
are densely tufted from a fibrous root and often clothed with 
rather large ferruginous scales at the very base, slender, 
wiry, two to five or six inches long, with small, patent, 
deciduous scales. Fronds (in the more common form of 
which we are now speaking) one to two inches long, and 
more than that broad, sometimes forming a half circle, many 
times dichotomous, firm, rigid, glabrous, of a glaucous or pale 
lurid colour, their ultimate segments linear, 2-3 toothed: 
the fertile fronds usually but not always longer, less spreading, 
with fewer but more deeply divided segments tapering to a 
sharp point and entire or nearly so. The involucre is narrow, 
linear, fixed to a marginal nerve (which bears the sorus and 
opening inwards). Nerves strong, dichotomous, following 
the divisions of the frond. 
Fig. 1.-2. Plants, nat. size . f. 3. Segments of a fertile 
frond : — magnified. 
K. 
