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distinctive character, so that Stenosemia aurita must become a 

 synonym here ; there is a fine suite of specimens in the Her- 

 barium of the Natural History Museum. King's collectors, No. 

 465, 442, 5,871. Dictyoptcris chattagramica {Clarke), Handbook, 

 p. 299, is a synonym here. 



5. Pleocnemia Clarkei. This name should stand, and not 

 give way to artincxum, a later name, the other supposed Clarkei. 

 Nephrodium Clarkei Baker (named long after this fern) being 

 only a slight variety of Filix-mas var. j3, the same as Wall. Cat. 

 340 and as paleaceum Don. 



6. Pleocnemia Leuzeana. This has been gathered by Dr. 

 King's collectors in Perak, with the subarborescent caudex densely 

 clothed with long, close, wool-like hairs. King^s collectors, No. 

 2,058,4,495. 



1 a. Lastrea fceniculacea. (See Diacalpe fceniciilacea, 

 Handbook, p. 18.) This fern should be placed here ; its involucres 

 in the normal state are reniform or polystichoid as in the other 

 species of this section. Lastrea aristata var. dissecta (Moore) is a 

 synonym. 



ib. Lastrea Wattii. (Bedd.Jbur. Bot. 1888.) Rhizome? 

 stipes stramineous, 4-5 inches long, clothed with a few light- 

 coloured deciduous scales ; fronds 1 foot or more long, by 

 2-2^ inches broad, tripinnate, broadest in the centre, gradually 

 narrowed towards the apex and base ; rachis naked ; texture 

 subcoriaceous, surfaces glossy ; ultimate segments obovate to 

 lanceolate, sharply acuminate, or more rarely with a rounded 

 apex, more or less 2-lobed ; veins i-forked in the ultimate 

 segments ; sori apical on the short lower veinlet, often furnished 

 with a few deciduous hair-like scales. 



East Munipore, at Kayang, on the frontier, 6,000 feet alt. 

 (Dr. Watt) 



This species much resembles foeniculacea in its ultimate 

 cutting and texture, but it is much less compound, with long 



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