the mountain districts of India generally, extending to Java and 
the Philippine Islands. Our specimens from Galeotti (n. 6551%*), 
gathered at Oxaca, in Mexico, seem in no way different from that 
here figured. A plant of such widely extended locality, and a 
good deal variable in its involucres, has occasioned a great num- 
ber of synonyms, which we have taken infinite pains to unravel. 
It flourishes in a pot in a temperate greenhouse. 
Descr. Roots tufted. Sfipites two to four inches long, black, 
glossy, scaly below. Fronds tufted, from a finger’s length to a 
span long, subcoriaceous, deltoideo-ovate or sublanceolate, acu- 
minate, pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, dark green above, 
glabrous and naked, white and powdery beneath. Lower pair of 
pinne remote, half-deltoid, bipinnatifid. Inferior segments of the 
base much longer than the opposite one. The rest of the pinne 
are simply pinnatifid, with the segments oblong, obtuse, rarely 
crenate. Sori subglobose, on little lobules, of which the mar- 
gins are involute, and form the scariose suborbicular involucres : 
these are sometimes free and rather distant, usually more or less 
combined, and with the edges crisped or erose. 
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* The same author’s n. 6442 (his Cheilanthes candida) is a different plant, 
and, judging from his figure, a Nothoclena. 
Fig. 1. Back of a fertile segment. 2. Underside of a fertile segment :— 
magnified, 
