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Classification and Description 
culiar and close manner in which its pinnae overlap one 
another. 
At Pataua, E. Coast, it grows abundantly in dense patches 
on the edges of the indurated clayey cliffs overhanging the 
sides of the salt-water inlet. Its fertile fronds, are, however, 
very few. 
Order— OSMUNDACEjE. 
§ Osmundete, Hook. 
Todea , Sw. 
Capsules globosae pedicellatae reticulatae, gibbere dorsali 
pellucido, lateraliter dehiscentes, venulis frondis infer, insi- 
dentes. Spreug . 
83. Todea stjperba, n. sp. Plant , large, sub-erect, 
spreading, membranaceous, crisped, terrestrial. Frond , 
lanceolate, attenuated at base, sub-acuminate, acute, bipin 
nate, 20—40 inches, dark green. Pinnules ; primaries , 
linear, elongated, sub-acuminate, bifid, broadest at base, pe~ 
tiolate, alternate and sub-opposite, not crowded, 4—6 inches 
long, 6 — 10 lines broad, decreasing in size towards base, 
lowermost very small ; base of pinnule appendiculated on 
upper surface of petiole with a large sub -cap illaceo -multific! 
segment, somewhat adpressed on rachis ; petioles short : 
secondaries , somewhat trapezio-falcate, bifid and obtuse, 
deeply pinnatifid, sub-petiolate, alternate, appendiculated at 
base with a bi-tri- or quadrifid linear cut segment, sub*de- 
preSsed on petiole: Segments, narrow, linear, bifid or forked, 
sub-acute, decurrent, sub-opposite, entire, glabrous, some- 
what crisped and curled. Capsules , small, clustered on 
lower segments of pinnules, numerous, never terminal. Stipe , 
Rachis, Petioles, and Ribs, densely villous underneath, 
canaliculated and sulcated on upper surface, dark green. 
Stipe, somewhat fleshy ; dilated, winged and half-clasping at 
base, l—i a inches long. Caudex, erect, short, sub-eoales» 
