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and they are all cut about 3rd towards the partial rachis into faleate segments, rachides costa and veins pubescent on the undersides, 
glabrous on the upper-side, texture moderately firm, veins anastomosing with a few free included veinlets, sori small scattered on the 
connecting veins but not on the free included veinlets, involucre reniform, athyrioid, hippocrepiform or rarely peltate, persistent, 
Himalayas (Captain Henderson), this has much the outline and appearance of Sagenia confluens (F’, Mueller), an Australian 
plant, but the sori are smaller and much more scattered. Yerns British India, tab. 364. 
6. Asprpium Srmonsti, Baker.—Stipe 14-2 feet naked ebeneons as are the rachides, fronds deltoid bipinnatifid 1-14 feet 
long and broad, pinne bijugate below the pinnatifid apex, lanceolate 14-2 inches broad, lowest stalked with a pair of large lanceolate 
- pinnules at the base, texture membranous, surfaces bright green glabrous, main veins 4-3 inch apart, areole with free included simple 
or forked veinlets, sori small generally on the connecting veinlets, irregularly 2-4 serial between the main veins, involucre minute 
fugacious (none present in my specimens)—Syn. Fil., 2nd edit., p. 504. East Himalayas. The specimen figured was sent me by Mr. 
J. Scott labelled “ melanocaulon.”— Ferns British India, tab. 367. : 
7. Aspipium vastum, Bl.—North India, Malay Peninsula. Ferns British India, tab. 169. alata. ) 
8. ASPIDIUM SEMIBIPINNATUM, Hi.—Penang. Ferns British India, tab. 137, 
9. ASPIDIUM HETEROCARPUM, Bedd.—North India. Ferns British India, tab. 47. (heterosorum, Baker Syn. Fil.) 
10, AsPipIuM vaRioLosuM, Wall.—North India. Ferns British India, tabs. 170 and 365, 
(365 is the true plant—170 is doubtful being only a fragment and is perhaps referable to cicutarium.) 
+h, AsPIDIUM DECURRENS, Presi.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab. 82. (pteropus. ) | 
12. ASPIDIUM DECURRENS, var. 8 minor.—Ceylon. Ferns Southern India, tab. 245. ( pteropus-minor.) 
13, Asprprum cicuTarium, Z.—General. Ferns Southern India, tab, 81. (coadunata ;) (a very variable plant if all the forms 
included under it in the Kew Herb really belong to it.) | 
14, Asprpium FuscipEs, Wall.—Root stock thick, the crown densely covered with shining black linear lanceolate subulate 
scales, stipes 8-12 inches furnished with numerous black scales, frond 8-12 inches long 4-7 inches broad at the base, the fertile 
often much contracted, subdeltoid pinnate with the pinnules pinnatifid and very shortly petioled, the lower pinne the largest and 
unequal sided, the lower basal pinnule being much produced, the other pinne cut about 3 of the way down into blunt falcate lobes, 
texture herbaceous, rachis and both surfaces more or less pubescent,veins more or less copiously anastomosing except in the lobes where 
they are forked and free, no free veinlets included in the areoles, sori copious generally terminal on the free veins in the lobes, very 
large and perfectly covering the lamina when the frond is contracted much smaller when there is no contraction, (as occurs in polymo- 
phum) involucre reniform.—Himalayas, Birma. Ferns British India, tab. 366. 7 
This is easily distinguished from L. dissecta, Desv., under which itis included in the Syn. Ful. by its small size anastomosing 
venation and the numerous black scales on the stipe.—'The plant figured was collected by Mr. Clarke at Cachar, but I have it from 
various parts of North India, the Birma plant is of softer texture more pubescent and greener in color when dried, and the anastomosis 
_ not so copious. 
15. Asprpium Tawatresi, Bedd—Ceylon. Ferns Southern India, tab, 244 (Sagenia simulans, Baker ; Syn. Fil. 2nd 
edit. 300.) | oe : 
16. Asprpiom Grirrita, Baker.—Birma. Ferns British India, tab. 837, 
GENUS 50. PLEOCNEMIA. Prest. 
1, PLEOCNEMIA GIGANTEA, Bl.—Ceylon. Ferns Southern India, tab, 80. (Sagenia.) 
2. PLEOCNEMIA MEMBRANACEA, Hk.—Ceylon. erns Southern India, tab, 243. (Sag. gigantea-minor) (Aspidium membrana _ 
ceum, Syn. #il.) The involucres are sometimes reniform and sometimes peltate, 
3. PLEOCNEMIA LEUZEANA, Ak, North India, Birma. Ferns British India, tab. 184, 
4, PrEocnemia CLARKEI, Bedd.-—Stipes and rachis slightly pubescent, fronds membranaceous lanceolate about 3 feet long 
(without stipe) 12-14 inches broad, pinnate with the pinnee deeply pinnatifid, pinnes numerous alternate 13-2 inches in breadth tie 
lower ones reduced in size, (and the lowest often mere auricles on the stipe) pubescent on both sides, but more so beneath, pinnatifid 
nearly to the rachis, the pinnules lanceolate from a broad base irregular as to length and from subentire to deeply pinnatiad: (on the 
same pinna) acute at the apex, the lowest veins forming ares along the costa of the pinnee from which proceed free veinlets, veins of 
the pinnules pinnate, or once or twice forked the lowest veinlet of a group often anastomosing with the next group iarblucte kidne 
shaped hairy and ciliate. | ? Jy 
