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much broader than the inferior generally extended into a long 

 sharp acuminated appendage or ear, the lowest pair and ter- 

 minal pinucB often with one on eacli side, veins anastomosing 

 pinnate flexuose, costal areoles with a solitary sorifcrous free 

 veinlet, superior ones with two or three veinlets clavate at 

 their apex, sori scattered or subseriate, involucre orbicular 

 peltate entire orlaciniated at the margin, rachis and rather shorty 

 petioles setaceo-paleaceous. — IVall. Cat. n. 376. Hook, et 

 Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 69. Mttten. Aspid.p. 32. Hook. Garcl. Ferns, 

 t. 13. Cyrtomium, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 86. t. 2./. 26. Moore. 

 Ind. Fil. 277- Aspid. anomophyllum, Zenk. PL Nilgh. t. 1 

 {identical ivith our plant) . Metten. Aspid. p. 34. Cyrtoniium 

 caryotideum, /3, Moore, Ind. I.e. C. falcatum, Pappe et Raws. 

 Syn. Fil.Afr. Austr. p. 15. 



Hab. India, chiefly in mountain regions: Nepal, JVaUich ; Kumaon, Griffith, 

 Strachcy and ]\"uiter bottom (at Dwali, elev. 8200 feet), Edgivorth, T. Thomson ; 

 BhoUm, Griffith, Booth; Silcliiui-riimalaya, Hooker Jit. and Thomson, m. 2G1 ; 

 above Simla, Col. Bates; Nilghiri, Dr. Wight, n. 108, Sir F. Adams; Zenker, 

 Hohenacker, in PI. Nilcjh. n. 919 and 913, M'lvor. South Africa: Natal, Major 

 Gardeit; forests in Catfraria, Captain Espinasse, 185G {Rawson and Pappe). — 

 Distinct as the Indian A. caryotideum may be from the Chinese and Japanese 

 specimens of A. falcatum, I confess I have sometimes a difficulty in distinguish- 

 ing them, especially in the dried state. The extremes of form are distinct enough 

 in general appearance. The Cape species undoubtedly belongs to caryotideum 

 rather than io falcatum. Of the normal state of this plant, and that which gave 

 rise to its specific name of Dr. Wallicli, the pinnae have a good deal the form of 

 the leaflets of Caryota urens. 



51. Asp. (Cyrtomium) Teijsmannianum, Hook. ; caudex ? 

 stipes a foot and more long sulcate slightly scaly below and 

 as well as the rachis brown, fronds about a foot long very 

 coriaceous when dry, (probably succulent when recent) pin- 

 nated, pinnoe about 9 subpetiolate especially the terminal 

 one ovate smaller and narrower above long acuminated 

 variously sinuated subincised, lateral ones with the inferior 

 half more dilated (so as to be somewhat semiovate) glabrous 

 superior surface embossed from the fructifications beneath, 

 primary veins spreading slightly flexuose united by trans- 

 verse veinlets which anastomose, the secondary ones bearing 

 the copious sori (in our specimens on every pinna) two ui)on 

 each veinlet and forming two series between the primary veins 

 not unfrequently confluent, involucres orbicular peltate sub- 

 coriaceous in age. (Tab. CCXXXVI.) 



llab. Isle of Poolu Pulang, on the west side of Smnatra, E. J. Teijsmann (e.v 

 Herb. Mif/uel). — A very peculiar Fern, at first sight resembling a Meniscinm, l)nt 

 the sori are globose and there arc involucres orbicular and peltate. The shape of 

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