Wallichiane. N. O. Filices. 
DCCCCXIL. 
CHEILANTHES NITIDULA. 
Caudice brevi repente, stipitibus 2-5-uncialibus csspitosis 
rachibusque (supra puberulis) ebeneis squamis subulatis 
fuscis paleaceis deciduis hispidis, frondibus 3—4 vy. 5-uncia- 
libus subdeltoideo-oblongis acuminatis (sterili latioribus) 
coriaceo-membranaceis pallide virentibus glabris pinnato- 
pinnatifidis inferne subbipinnatis, pinnis approximatis sepis- 
sime oppositis ovato-lanceolatis subdimidiatis (dimidio infe- 
riore latiore) profunde pinnatifidis usque ad rachin, infimis 
iterum subpinnatis, pinnis secundariis pinnatifidis, lobis 
oblongis integris vel sinuatis sensim acutis, involucris sub- 
int inalibus continuis raro interruptis latis planis 
membranaceis fuscis appressis seepissime lobatis crenatisque 
si 
sversim rugosis. 
Cheilanthes nitidula, Hook. Gen. et Sp. Fil. 2. p» 112. 
Pteris nitidula, Wall. Cat. n. 89. 
Allosorus nitidulus, Presi. 
Has. Northern India. Kamaoun, Dr. Wallich. Rocks, Simla, 
Dr. T. Thomson. Pundkester, N. India, Mr. Edgeworth. 
One of Dr. Wallich’s many Indian discoveries, made either 
by himself in Northern India, or through the medium of the 
many excellent collectors he was rivileged to employ ; and 
whom he so successfully employed, especially in the search 
after Ferns, that very little of novelty has been left for suc- 
ceeding Botanists. In the arrangement of the Genus Cheil- 
anthes in the Genera and Species Filicum, we have placed this 
in the “ Pteridoidee” group, having, as we there observed, 
nearly as — a claim to be placed in Preris or Allosorus as 
in Cheilanthes. Presl considers it an associate of Cryptogramma, 
Br., for he refers it to the section of his Allosorus, which in- 
cludes that genus ; erroneously we think. Asa species it is 
very distinct. 
Fig. 1. Upper side of a sterile pina. f, 2. Under side of 
a fertile pinna; magnified, 
