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acuminate, 3-6 inches long, 2^—5 inches broad at the base, texture 

 coriaceous, tripinnate, more or less glaucous beneath, the tertiary 

 pinnules or segments inversely triangular, subflabellate, the broad 

 apex very sharply toothed, the teeth long ; sori 1-2 to each 

 segment. Franchet PI. David ii. 150. 



Moupine, Thibet (Ph-e David) differs from venustum in 

 its triangular form, its coriaceous texture, and in the shape of its 

 ultimate pinnules. 



7. Adiantum pedatum. Kangra (Cuttell), Chambra 

 (McDonell)) Hatu, 10,000 feet alt. (Blanford). 



GENUS XXIVa.— HYPOLEPIS. 

 (Hypo, under ; left's, a scale.) 



Sori marginal at the apex of the veins, small, distinct, 

 occupying the axils of the lobes. Indusium small, suborbicular, 

 membranous, formed out of the refiexed margins. Veins simple 

 or forked, free. 



Rhizome wide-creeping. Fronds large, compound. 



Hypolepis punctata. (71. sp.) Rhizome large, wide-creep- 

 ing ; fronds 4-6 feet long, quadripinnatifid, bright green in colour, 

 rachises strigose ; pinnae herbaceous, about 2 feet long and 

 more than a foot broad at base, on petioles about 2 inches long ; 

 secondary pinnae lanceolate, 6-8 inches long ; tertiary pinnse 

 about i\ inches long, § inch broad, cut down nearly to the 

 rachis (leaving a wing) into 10-12 oblong obtuse segments on 

 each side which are bluntly lobed, surfaces glabrous, the tertiary 

 rachis and midrib with a few longish white hairs on both sides ; 

 sori in the axils of the 1-2 lower lobes on each side of the 

 segments. 



Larut, Perak, 4,400 feet-6,000 feet alt. (Dr. King's collector , 

 No. 5,015 ; 



Thia is exactly like Phegopteris punctata in cutting, &c. but 

 having a most distinct membranaceous indusium, I cannot refer it 



