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Classification and Description 
culiar and close manner in which its pinna; 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— OSMUND ACE;E. 
§ OSMUNDEiE, Ilooh. 
Todea , Sw. 
Capsules globosae pedicellatae rcticulatae, gibbere dorsali 
pellucido, lateralitcr dehiscentes, venulis frondis infer, insi- 
dentes. Sprevg . 
33. Todea superba, 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-capillaceo-multifid 
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, 1—1J inches long. Caudex, erect, short, sub-coalcs- 
