SCHIZÆA TRILAT ERAL I S .
riLICES.— O sM U N D A C E Æ . Br., Kaulf. S c i i i s m a t o p t e r i d e s . iVilld.
G l e i c i i e n i e j e . Spreng.
Ge n . C i ia r . S C H I Z Æ A , Sm. C a p s u læ ovidcs, sessile s, apic e ra d ia tim s tr ia to , b a s i in s e rtæ , in
a p p e n d ic e d ivisa te rm in a li fro n d is d o rsa le s. I n d u s iu r n e m a rg in ib u s inflex is ap p en d ic is c o n tin
u um , in tu s lib c rum . B r .
ScHizÆA t r i la t e r a l i s ; fro n d ib u s sim p iic is s im is lin e a r i- tr iq u e tr is , a p p e n d ic ib u s (6— 10) lin e a rib u s
d ig ita tis fa lc a to -s e cu n d is in tu s c rin itis .
S c h izæ a trila te ra lis . S c h k u h r F i l . p . 137- G 136. S p r e n g . S y s t . V e g e t . v . 4 . p . 3 0 .
. S c h izæ a in c u rv a ta . M e y e r F l . E s s c q . p . 2 9 1 . (cxcl. sy n . S ch k u h rii.)
H a b. L o c is u d is A m e ricæ M e rid io n a lis ; E s s e q u e b o . S c h k u h r . M e y e r . D em e ra ra . P a r k e r .
R a d ix e fibris plurimis, subsimplicibus, ferriigineo-pilosis.
Caudex, u t vicletur, repens, squamis fuscis, subulatis, nitidissimis dense obsitus.
Frondes plurimæ ex eadem caudice, cæspitosæ, erectæ, pedales et ultra, basi teretes, fuscæ, scabriusculoe, superne
conipresso-triquetroe, angulis acutis, viridi-fuscæ, glaberrimoe, lineam latæ, versus apicem attenuatæ.
Appendices fructificantes terminales, fasciculato-digltatæ, per pariam approximatæ, sesquiunciales ad biunciales,
sex ad decem, Iineares, primum virides, demum ferrugineo-fuscescentes, falcato-secundoe, acutæ, costatoe, dorso
convexæ, vel semiteretes, iiitus canaliculate, capsuliferæ, atque medio (margineque rarissime) paleis lineari-
clavalis, flexuosis, intense fulvis, capsulis longioribus, crinite.
Capsulai in series quatuor dispositæ, parvæ, intense fuscæ, laxc reticulatoe, vertice stria te , longitudinaliter dehiscentes.
Semina minutissima, oblonga, alba.
Fig. 1. Portio frondis cum appendicibus fructificantibus, ex sicco. f. 2. Portio appendicis, cum capsulis paleisque.
fi 3. Capsulæ. f. 4. Semina, f. 5. S e te vel paleæ :—magi. auct.
W e a re in d e b te d fo r th e su p e rb sp e c im en s o f th is tru ly e le g a n t F e rn to o u r e x c e lle n t frien d
C . S. P a rk e r , E s q . o f L iv e rp o o l, w h o g a th e r e d th em in D cm c r a r a in 1824. T h e sam e p la n t h a d
b e e n p rev io u s ly fo u n d in th e n e ig h b o u r in g d is tr ic t o f th e E s s e q u e b o in D u tc h G u ian a , a n d we b e liev
e n o wh o re else.
I t c e rta in ly b e a rs a v e ry c lo se a ffin ity w ith th e S c h izæ a d i g i l a l a o f th e E a s t In d ie s (th e S c h izoe a
m a r 'g in a la o f T F a ll. M S S . ) : b u t th a t h a s b ro a d e r, m o r e c om p re s s ed , a lm o s t w in g e d fro n d s , a n d
th e c ap su le s a rc n o t in te rm ix e d w ith th e cu rio u s chaffy h a ir s w h ic h a re so c o n sp ic u o u s in th is
species. i ’Î m