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more strongly at the apex, white and almost powdery beneath, green 

 above with a tinge of red; veins copious, compact, simple and forked; 

 ultimate short pinna? confluent into a pinnatifid and lobed caudate 

 apex, fertile pinna? narrow-linear obtuse erect-patent on very short 

 petioles, which sometimes bear a gland beneath ; sori and involucres 

 as in other Plagiogyria?. Bl. En. Ft I. I. p. 204. Lomaria (Plagiogyria) 

 glauca, Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 22. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 90. 



Khasya, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation, {Probably only a variety of 

 pycnophylla.) 



(Also in Java.) 



3. Plagiogyria pycnophyi.la. {Kunze) Caudex stout, erect, 

 very woody, and having many wiry roots; fronds fascicled; stipes sub- 

 quadrangular 2-furrowed in front (as is the rachis), at the base dilated 

 flesh)', triquetrous, bearing spongy glands; fronds 1-2 and more feet 

 long, sterile ones, sub-chartaceous opaque, brown when dry, oblong- 

 ovate pinnated for its whole length, except that the small terminal 

 ones are confluent into a lobed (or pinnatifid) and finely acuminate 

 and serrated apex, pinna? horizontally patent sessile or very nearly 

 so, numerous, approximate, narrow oblong-lanceolate very finely 

 almost caudately acuminate, the base very obtuse and truncate 

 (neither dilated nor contracted), at the base beneath furnished with 

 one or two prominent glands (sometimes wanting); the marg'n very 

 minutely serrulate, the caudate apex strongly serrated ; veins nume- 

 rous, closely placed, simple and forked; fertile fronds narrower pin- 

 nated ; pinna? linear obtuse on very short petioles with a gland on 

 the under side ; involucre at first vaulted, conspicuous, membrana- 

 ceous, brown, at length forced back by the capsules. Kze. in Bot. 

 Zeit. W. p. 143. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 21. Bedd. F. B. I. /. 52. 



Nepal and IJhotan, 6,000-1 r,ooo feet; very common at 7,000- 

 8,000 feet. Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet ; Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in Java.) 



4. Plagiogyria euphlebia. (Kunze.) Caudex stout woody 

 elongated; stipes 1 fooler more long,naked erect, triquetrous below, 



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