546 NAMES AND OBSERVATIONS ON INDIAN PLANTS.
suggested by this plant, which has its flowers in a capitnlnm. — Brown s MSS.
Cometes abtssinica. (Brown MSS.) Tab. 18.
Foliis lineari-lanceolatis, mucronatis, pungentibus ; sti- pulis liberis ; ramulis pulvereo-pubescentibus, scabris ; fructus involucri ramulis pinnatis, patulis. — Brown MSS.
Saltia adyssinica, Brown apud Salt, in Itin. Abyssin. Append. B. p. 376.
39] Abelmoschus.
Calyx 5-dentatus, spathaceus, deciduus, cinctus involucro {calyce exterior e) 5 — 10-partito. Stigmata 5. Capsula 5-locularis, valvis medio septiferis, polysperma. Semi n a calva. — Brown MSS.
41] SpHtEROPTERIS.
Involucra dorsalia, e medio venulae orto, pedicellata, sphaerica, clausa, verticahter dehiscentia, bivalvia. Cap- sule pedicellatae, receptaculo communi convexo insi- dentes. — Brown MSS.
Habitus Aspidii, caudice nullo, frondibus decompositis, venulis subtus glandulosis, stipite rachique paleaceis. — Genus nimis forsan affine Biacalpi, Blume Enum. Plant. Javan. p. 241 (fide speciminis Javanici a Domino Hors- field anno 1818 communicati), quae similis habitu, venulis glandulosis, medio soriferis, involucro sphaerico, clauso, reticulata, areolis subrotundis, parietibus moniliformibus, nodulosisve ; diversa involucro sessili, laceratim dehiscente, capsulis vix pedicellatis, et receptaculo obsoletiori insiden- tibus. Hoc ultimo charactere et reticulatione involucri a Cyatheis nonnullis (involucro e medio venae orto) praesertim distinguenda ; arctiore tamen affinitate nixa cum Woodsia, mediante specie mexicana (W. meccicana Nob.) quae, ni fallor, Physewatium molte, Kaulf. in Regensb. Bot. Zeit. 1829, 1 Band, p. 341, cui eel. auctor attribuit involucrum
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