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elevation; Burma.—Malay Islands; Guinea 
Coast. 
A variety with broad white bands down the 
centre of the pinne occurs on the Anshi and 
Nilkund Ghats and in the Jog Forest. 
5. Pteris quadriaurita Retz. 
Caudex short, erect. Stipes naked or rough, 
varying much insize. Fronds lanceolate or 
ovate; pinnate pinne cut down nearly 
to the rachis into numerous linear-oblong seg- 
ments, the lowest pair or several lower pairs 
usually again compound with similar but 
smaller pinnz arising from the lower side of 
the base. Texture membranaceous to almost 
leathery. The costze are armed with bristles 
above. Veinlet usually once forked and free 
(Forma quadriaurita Type) or the lowest ones 
of two adjoining veins unite in pairs into an 
arch (Forma liaurita) or both these kinds of 
venation occur in one and the same frond. 
(Forma nemoralis.) 
The above is an expanded description in- 
tended to embrace the three species, Pteris 
quadriaurita Retz., Pteris (Campteria) biaurita 
L. and Pteris (Campteria) nemoralis Willd., 
which we consider simply as forms of one and 
