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slender, glossy, stramineous, the base very tomentose with a few 

 sparse scales partly subterraneous, attached to the caudex by a small 

 point; fronds thin, membranaceous pale-green, glabrous, subpuber- 

 ulous on the veins, 6-9 inches long, quite as broad as long, cordate- 

 deltoid, subternate or pinnated with 3-9 subfalcate pinna;, lateral 

 ones nearly opposite, petiolate, lowest pair half ovate, acuminate, 

 4-6 inches long, lobate-pinnatifid, those of the superior margin with 

 broad ovate nearly equal subdenticulate blunt lobes, the inferior 

 ones much elongated and acuminated, the basal ones again lobate 

 pinnatifid, intermediate pinnse ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid, terminal 

 pinna long petiolate, broad-ovate 

 acuminate, deeply pinnatifid 

 especially at the base ; veinlets 

 uniformly reticulated, areoles 

 with no included free veinlets, 

 costular areoles large ; sori rather 

 irregularly scattered, dorsal or 

 compital. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 104. 

 Bed. F. B. I. t. 4. 



Moulmein ; very like small 

 specimens of Aspidium cicatarium 

 in habit and outline, but there 

 are no free veins, and the sori 

 are more scattered and larger, 

 and show no signs of an in- 

 dusium. 



N°I54-. 

 DICTYOPTERIS Barberi. {Hook. 



3. Dictyopteris CHATTAGRAMICA. {Clarke.) Rhizome short, 

 stout; stipes To-12 inches long, tufted, long, black with small scales 

 near the base ; fronds deltoid, distinctly dimorphic, pinnate below, 

 pinnatifid upwards about 10-12 inches long by 6-7 inches broad, 

 lower pinna; deltoid with the lower basal lobes much enlarged, mar- 

 gins pinnatifid, surfaces pubescent, the margin with minute golden 

 multicellular hairs ; sori naked, medial or terminal on the veins. 

 Clarke, F. .V. /. /<. 548, /. 81. 



Chittagong at no elevation, very general. 



