Walkeriane. N. O. Filices. 
TAB. DCLXXI. 
ALSOPHILA CRINITA. Hook. 
Stipite rachique primaria pallidis elevato-punctatis muricatisque, 
frondibus bipinnatis coriaceis, rachi supra pilosa subtus cos 
taque dense paleaceo-crinitis, paleis nunc brevibus minutis 
plerumque elongatis appressis, pinnulis sessilibus anguste 
lanceolatis acuminatis profunde fere ad rachin pinnatifidis, 
segmentis anguste ovato-oblongis subobtusis paululum fal- 
catis margine (sicco) valde recurvis subtus pallidioribus, 
costa venisque szepe pilosis, venis furcatis, soris paginas in- 
feriores fere totas occupantibus paleis crinitis tectis. 
Alsophila crinita. Hook. Sp. Fil.1, p. 54. 
Hap. Ceylon. Mrs. Gen, Watker. 
A very remarkable species, not like any with which T am” 
acquainted. It possesses the dark, minute tuberculations — 
on a pale stipes and main rachis, remarked by me in Cyathea — 
medullaris. The main rachis, too, and the rachis of the pinne, — 
although stout, are waved and flexuose ; and they are beneath 
quite shagey with copious, pale-coloured scales; these are of 
two kinds, at least upon the main rachis, some being exceed- : 
ingly small, but the majority are long, slender, subulate, more — 
or less appressed, gradually smaller on the costee, where they 
partially cover and conceal the copious fructifications. 
Fig. 1. Under side of a fertile segment. f. 2. Sorus and © 
Seales, f. 3. Single scale i—magnified, 
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