TAB. XV. 
Meniscium proliferum, Sw. 
Deciduo pubescens, caudice crassiusculo subrepente fibr 0so , 
sti pitibus ccespitosis erectis longitudine variantibus, frondi. 
bus pedalibus bipedalibus et ultra subcoriaceis glabri s 
pinnatis apicibus et in axillis pinnarum repetitim prolif er ; a 
longissime extensis, pinms 3 - 6 . uncias longis . sessilibua 
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi equalibus yel juniorIbu 3 
prjecipue inferne dilatato-rotundatis superne auriculatia 
integris vel (adultis) grosse crenato-serratis, venis pinnatis 
venuhs omnibus cum ns oppositis junctis et venas spurias 
intermedias formantibus, soris ovalibus copiosis, singulo i n 
singula yenula non raro confluentibus. 
Meniscium proliferum, Sw. Syn. PL p. 19. and 207. Willd. Sp 
Pl. 5. p. 135. 
Polypodium proliferum, Roxb. Herb. Wall. Cat. n. 312, ( not 
Kaulfuss.) 
Polypodium luxurians, Kze. in Linncea, 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.; and A. firma, Kze. in Linnaea, 24, p. 251. Moore 
Index. 1. c. 
Hab. India, Koenig. Nepal, Oude, Sylhet, ( Wallich ,) and 
apparently all over India ; from Nilgbiri and N. Western 
India, Khasya, and Sikhim, Himalaya in the East, Griffith, 
Hooker, fil. and Thomson, Jacquemont, n. 1419, Schmidt, &c. 
8fc. Luzon, Cuming, n. 168. Java, Zollinger. 
This is, doubtless, a very sportive plant, but its main 
teature is occasioned by its extraordinary tendency to send 
out new plants from axillary and terminal gemrme, which 
take root, cover a great extent of ground, and hinder the 
real form and structure of the frond from being distinctly 
have been 6 c , onccivc > W, V so “any names should 
new gei J g ° <h ”‘ f knt ' and ‘he honor of a 
fev^io’ 1; ^ aSe a P“ na 5 seen from above, f 2 Base of a 
fertile pmna, seen from beneath f 3 P* {■' et 
pinna, from ne Q ,. +i • i n yain ‘ /• Portion of a fertile 
“ 1 1 86611 fr ° m beneath -—magnified. 
