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352 



Bengali* Griffith, no, 6056). Nepalia { Wallich), Sik- 

 kim, alt 2— 401X) ped, 



162. C« filicina N, ah K. (emend.) 



Hhizomate snhelongato, fibrillin validly rigidis; eulrao 

 1 — 2-pedali multoque altiore gracili v. valido triangulari 

 laev! folioso; foliis — basilaribus approximatis — her- 

 haceo-rigidulis longe angustato ratmmitiatis planis sublae- 

 vihm v. acaberrimis, eulmuro subaequantibus v. superan- 

 tibiw 3 — <> Hn. latis; panieula elongata, t— 2-pedali, laxa 

 vontinua v. basi interrupta e paniculis pluribus singulis 

 v. binatis construeta; his tarn ionge inaequaliter exserte 

 peduneulatis saepius multiramosis arnbitu triangularibus 

 v. ovato-lanceolatis aut ohlongw -V — .> poll, altis I — S'/j 

 poll, I at; ramU remotu divar truth cupiflari-setaeehy infe- 

 rioribus mepe elongatis non raro iterum ramosis; peduneu- 

 lis gracilibus leviter c*oiiipreMis margine scabris; rhaehi 

 primaria obtuse triangulari laeci w ad angulos serrulato- 

 seabrida, illis seemidariis ad angulos aento* setuloso- 

 eiliatis : braeteis primarily foliaceis elongatis, omnibus 

 panlculas suas superantibiw ; bracteis ramorum illisq ue 

 spicularum minutis subrotundis breoiter aristatu hirtulis; 

 spiculis in ramulis mbpedtmmhtim singulis remotis altering 

 inferioribm pafodusimis , supcrioribus ereeto - patentibus, 

 gracilibus laxis oblongo-linearibus floribus pluribus mas- 

 culis terminalibus densis, foemineis nitmerosioribus remo- 

 tm 0—3 Hn, longis, maturie circ. 2 lin. lat; aqnauiis 

 mernhranaceo-chartaoeis minutulis difformibus stramineo- 

 purpurascentibus v. pallide ferrugineis: foemineis lineam 

 rir<\ longis lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis obtusis v. acu- 

 tia, muticis v. aristulatis, carina superne seabris, masculis 

 sesquilineam longis orafo - hi liwohitis muticis ; tttriculid 



