42 6. ALSOPHILA.
pinnoe 2 ft. and more 1., ol,long-ovate,
S l o H o ^ ^ a £ c n t o e j - a n e —
receptacle after tlie capsules are „’^ In ia 1 . / . 64 (Alsoph.). ChnoopTiora glauca, W . A. Bi unoniannaa , Wr all. Hh. Sp. 1.
* ' " ¿ 1 Java and Malay Islands ; Sylhet ; CachYsoLfA
of my specimens exhibit in a perfect ® disappears A. Brunoniana is probably
, ? . s i “ x s « î i f r s î oe i . — - <—
alluded to in Sp. Kl. I.e.
» - £ « 3« A E ' S i
F il 1. p . 54, and To. F il. t. 671. Fedd. F il. p . 20. t. 59.
Hah. Ceylon, Nilghiris (MHoaie) ; Java,
with very long, fulvous, paleaceous kairs).—A very s ggy a species of Blume ;
cboapti oifu ws hhaati rIs reacnedi vsec ualneds.e r tMhaett tnenamiues buen 'ttoh®e true p„Ilnann'tt, iitt iiss aa vveeriyy admiffeerree nt sppecies,
the A. lepifera of J. Smith, our A. tomentosa.
all the interstices of the f f ' h ' ' Y®/* .“ , m n ü a )— H h . Sp. 1. p . 55.
Hh. Sp. 1. c. / . 54.
Hab Java; S. Comarines, Cuming ; Formosa, Wilfm-d.
54. A. caudala, J . Sm. ; unarmed ; / r . g l t t i ^ B , firm, s u h r o ^ ^
ceTè ; 7 “ iE
denly céntraeted into a long, s nA e oi S
r,o'“ l S ] ° “ . S “ “ v r h . n o f . h . i o b . . - a . i r . I . r . 5».
'■ a . b \ . . . n , O m d v . - i . V . r , d . b l . . . . p r i « , b . . m , . . m . . » • « ! - I » '
tammmis and, as J . Smith thinks, with lunnlata.
spines l i in. 1., with ," f e r A r e a t f
pinnatifid a t the | ' a to tlA costu es ; lohes oval-oblong, obtuse
very minutely lìiillato-sipiamulose ; recept. minute.
H„b Sarawak Borneo - alt. 2,700, T. Lohb.-Us nearest affinity is perhaps with
A^quamulata, from which the fronds differ in colour »Y L h lX A s “
for the large and curiously branched spines at the bases of the stipes.
2nd Cent, o f Ferns, t. 66.
Hab. Chnsan; Hong-Kong, frequent. VariaWe as is this handsome species, I cannot
but consider it quite distinct from A. glabra oi Bl.
67. A. squamulata. J . Sm. ; .i. paleaceous, f *ke base tu b e r c u l t o “
as well as the rachises, d a rk ,, Aeneous-purple, subulato^squa^^^^ 8.^^_
la ily firm and coriaceous, rich brown when 2 Itoes .) oblong-
W., stipitate ; pinnl, rather distant, all petiolate {p tpickened costule * lobes
Lugd. Bat. l . p . 62.1 An Gymnosphæra squamul. B l. .
Hab. Malacca, Mt. Ophir, Gi-ißth. M f o 7 t o '
from Java is, I think, only AU. glabra. Ours is, I believe, only from Mt. Ophir.
58 A alabra H k ; st. asperous, paleaceous at the base, and, as well as the
maiiiracJiises pm'ple-ebeneous, polished ;/»-. subcoriaceo-membranaceous ; / n m .
p Z h t ^ L ^ i more ft. 1., dL p ly pinnatifid at the
sessile lower ones petiolate, from a truncated base, oblong-acumiiiY-, 3-6 m. 1.,
6-9 1. L., pinnatifid, way to the costule, rare ly move lobes ‘« “ gAYoLÎ:
rounded rare ly ovate, serrated ; veins pinnated, vemlets^ all siinple , son on most
of the lobes generally arranged in the shape of a V inverted, not extending to
7 e apeA of fhe l o b e E ® . 1. / . 61. Bedd. F il. p . 20. i. 60 (very good).
Als. gigantea, Hk. 1. c. p- 53.
Hab. Java and Malay Islands, generally (Moulmein, n. 3. Parish) ; China and
throughout India ; Ceylon.
69. A. latebrosa, Hk. ; st. aculeate at the base, muricated «pwards, Y A ;
o-anv-brown in colour : prim, pinnoe oblong-acuminate, 12-24 in. b, b-b m. di. ,
|^ ^A . lanoe o la te -a cum ii7 e ,3 è4 in. 1 | m. br cut down de t e ^ to e
into numerous linear-oblong, blunt, slightly-toothed lobes on ®ach sMe,, * ^ 7 ®
herbaceous, upper surface dark-green, naked, lower surface naked, oi BligMy
h a iry and scaly ; veins all once forked ; so n elevÿed, conspicimus, occupying
often the lower two-thirds of the segment.—f t / , ft/. 1 - / - 37‘
i. 68. Polypodiuni, HaZZ. Hemitelia, i¥e«. ft«?. 1 - / - o4.
Hab. Common almost throughout India proper and the Malay Islams Fo™o3>b
&C.—There are plenty of so.ales amongst the fructifications, but none, I think, that can
constitute a Hemiteloid involucre.
60. A .lu r id a , H k . ; St. sm o o th ; raehis slightly scabrous p d scaly below,
densely tomentose and scaly above ; f r . broadly lanceolate \ p nm . pinnæ 1 ft. 1. ,
pinnl. move than 2 in. 1., i in. br., cut down to the raclns into numerous linear-
oblong nearly entire segments ; texture subcoriaceous, upper surface daik-gieen,
naked, lower densely scaly on the rachis and costæ,—Chnoophora, B l. Mett. tn
Miq. A n n . Mus, Bot. L . B a t. 1. p . 53.