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clothed with numerous close-pressed scales varying in shape 

 from small-ovate to long-lanceolate, fronds 2-3-4 feet long 

 oblong or suboval lanceolate acuminate coriaceo-mcml)rana- 

 ceous pinnate, pinna? numerous alternate horizontal subfal- 

 cate 5-G inches long often an inch broad from a broad sessile 

 base oblong acuminate deeply even to the rachis pinnatifid 

 (almost again pinnate), segments ai)proximate parallelogram- 

 oblong straight obtuse or retuse angulato-dentatc at the apex, 

 veinlets numerous simple or forked, sori 5-6 only at the a[)ex; 

 of the frond, involucres firm-membranaeeous reniform, costre 

 very paleaceous with appressed subbullate scales beneath. 

 (Tab. CCXLVIII.)— Aspidium, IFalL Cat. n. 345. Metten. 

 Aspid. p. 54. 



Hab. Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim-Himalaya, 9000 feet, Hook.fil. et Thomson, n. 

 254 a. — A very distinct species, with pinnae resenibling those of Neph. F.-ma.t. 

 The segments of the piiiiifE are singularly obtuse, or truncate, or retuse, and only 

 bear a few sori, 5-(>, at the apex. The stout stipes and peculiarly stout racbis 

 have a dirty and scurfy appearance, from the copious differently-sized scjiles. In 

 drying, the fronds become deep brown, paler beneath. 



94. N. (Lastrea) Brunonianum, Hook. ; caudex short 

 thick erect clothed as are all the nascent fronds with a dense 

 mass of large subulato-lanceolate brown scales ^-| of an inch 

 long, stipites tufted 4 inches to a span long swollen at the 

 base and as well as the (usually) black rachis squamose with 

 long dark-brown glossy lanceolato-subulate patent flexuose 

 scales mixed with others quite setiform, fronds subcoriaceo- 

 membranaeeous a span to 12-14 inches long 2 inches broad 

 moderately attenuated at the base very obtuse at the apex 

 oblong-lanceolate pinnate, pinna? approximate sessile hori- 

 zontally patent oblong very obtuse deeply sometimes quite to 

 the rachis pinnatifid, segments | of an inch long horizontal 

 broad-oblong or oval very obtuse lobato-pinnatifid the mar- 

 gins strongly and very sharply serrated, the teeth spreading 

 subsetaceous at the points, principal veins (or costules) flex- 

 uose, veinlets forked distant, sori 3-4 on each side the cos- 

 tule between it and the margin, involucres reniform. (Tab. 

 CCLI.)— Aspidium, J rail. Cat. n. 344. Metten. Aspid. p. 54. 



Ilab. Kamaon, IVallich, on high mountains, Strachey and n"intcrbottom,v. 8, 

 elev. 12,000 feet. Sikkim-llimalaya, 13,000-15,000 feet. Hooker fil. et Thomson, 

 n. 259. Punjaub, Jacquemo7it, n. 1189 c. — See remarks on A', barbiyeritm, our 

 next species. 



95. N. (Lastrea) barbigcrum., Hook.; caudex stout erect 

 short and together with the young nascent fronds clothed 



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