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L I N D SÆA C U L TR A TA .
FILIC ES.— G y r a t æ . B r . P o l y p o d i a c e æ . K a u lf . F i l i c e s v e ræ . JVilld.
G e n . C h a r . L I N D S Æ A , Dry an d . S o ri lin c a re s, m a rg in e p a ra lle li sæ p iu sq u e a p p ro x im a ti.
Involucrum e x ap ic ib u s v e n a rum (u n a p lu tium ) o r tum d u c cn s, e x te riu s lib e rum . B r .
L i n d s æ a m itra ta -, fronde pinnata, pinnis dimidiato-oblongis obtusis basi truncatis margine supcriore
lato-crcnatis soriferis.
Lindsæa cultrata. S w a r tz . S yn . F I . p . \ \^ . fV illd . S p . P I . v .h . p . 4 2 2 . Schkuhr Fil. p . D)b.
t. 114. S p ren g . S y s t. F eg et, v. 4. p . 7 9 . B lum e E n um . P I. J a v . v. 1. p . 216.
Adiantiun cultratum. W illd . P h y to g . 14. 1 . 10. / . 2 .”
H a b . In India Orientali. (W illd .) Apud Sylhet, B engaliæ Orientalis, 1815. W a llich . In
mon to sis insulæ Javæ. Blum e .
Caudex repens, squamosus, valde radicosus, radicibus fibrosis, ramosis, nigris.
S tip e s digitalis ad spithamæam, nitidus, glaber, basi subpaleaceus, hinc sulcatus.
Fro n s, circumscriptione lanceolata, attenuata, pinnata, pinnis alternis remotiusculis, semiunciam ad unciam longis,
patentibus, dimidiato-oblongis, membranaceis, opacis, obtusis, basi truncatis, margine inferiore integerrimis,
superiore late crenatis, lobulis soriferis, venas dichotomas terminantibus.
In vo lu c ra terminalia, marginalia, transversim oblonga, vel sublinearia, membranacea, exterius dehiscentia.
Capsuloe sublonge stipitatoe, in sinu involucri insertæ, globosoe, fuscæ.
Semin a subrotunda, pallide fusca.
F ig . 1. Pin na fructificans. f. 2. Sorus. f. 3. Capsulæ. f. 4 . Semina:—magn. auct.
Th e affinity o f this plant with that given in the preceding Plate (C X L III.) o f this Number, D a vallia
B o r y a n a , must strike any one on the slightest ex am in a tio n : y e t as the respective genera are
now constituted, they cannot be arranged togethe r . This proves th e ju stne ss o f Mr. Brown’s
remarks in the Prodrom u s F lo ra N o v a H o lla n d ia , where h e says, “ Iir mc thodo naturali genus
[D a v a llia ) in quatuor phalanges distribuendum, quarum tres respective affines L in d sa a , D ick so n ia ,
Our finest specimens o f this plant arc from the Honourable the Directors o f the India Company,
gathered at Sylhc t by Dr. Wallich. •
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