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long, ii-2 inches broad, the terminal pinna with blunt rounded lobes 

 reaching sometimes J of the way to the rachis, below this usually a 

 single pair of small sessile ovate blunt auriculate lateral ones, tex- 

 ture thin, herbaceous, veins beneath hairy ; main veins sometimes 

 distinct to the edge, at other times hardly distinguishable from the 

 other veins, with copious areoles, including free veinlets ; fertile 

 fronds with a terminal pinna, 1-2 inches long, -§■ inch broad, and a 

 pair of smaller lateral ones, the stipe slender, 6-9 inches long, naked 

 except at ihe base. Acrostichutn quercifolium. Retz. Obs. Bot. 6, 

 p. 39. Hook. Syn. Fil.p. 418. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 47. 



Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills, up 

 to 2,000 feet elevation, Anamallays ; 

 Ceylon, about Colombo. 



7. GVMNOPTERIS FLAGELLIFERA. 



( Wall.) Rhizome short, terrestrial, or scan- 

 dent several feet up trees, strong, densely 

 scaly with brown lanceolate scales at the 

 extremities, and throwing out rootlets 

 encircling the boughs ; stipes often 

 densely scaly, fronds simple or 3-foliate 

 or pinnate with 5-1 1 pinnae, the terminal 

 pinna often much prolonged and rooting 

 at the apex ; pinnae stalked entire or re- gymnopteris quercifolia. 

 pand, or even lobed, 4-5 inches long by [Retz.) 



2 inches broad ; main veins very prominent to the margin, areoles 

 copious with or without free veinlets ; fertile pinnae more or less con- 

 tracted, generally without any free veinlets in the areoles, wholly 

 soriferous or partially covered with meniscioid sori ; texture herba- 

 is, drying a dull brown colour. Wall. Cat. 25. Clarke, F. N. I. 

 p. 579. Poecilopteris flagellifera, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 112. 



North India, Sikkim and Assam, Cachar and Chittagong up to 

 3,000 feet elevation ; liirma. Some of my Birma specimens have all 

 the fronds simple, and are then hardly distinguishable from "varia 

 bills " (type) except by tin,- peculiar colour and scaly stipe, others have 



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