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PLEOPELTIS. | 
PLEOPELTIS INSIGNIS. (BL) Caudex short creeping paleaceous with deciduous ferruginous scales, stipes 1-2 inches 
or more long (according to the length of the decurrent wing of the frond), fronds subtriangular- ovate membranaceous glabrous 4-6 inches - 
long (independent of the decurrent wing) and as much broad, subdeltoid, deeply pinnatifid with 5-9 lanceolate spreading acuminate 
segments, the base of the fronds subcuneate and decurrently attenuated so that the stipes 18 dugd for the greater part or even the 
whole of its length, venation distinct, costules slender veniform, united by transverse veins forming 2-4 series of primary areoles which 
are filled by a very delicate network forming lesser areoles including free divaricating veinlets, sori very small, generally two on each 
transverso veinlet, but appearing to be irregularly scattered. Hook. Sp. Fil: v. 78. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 166. t. T4. (very good). Metten, 
Polyp. p. 117 ;—P. diffundens, Kze. in Bot. Zeit, iv. p. 422 ;—Drynaria deir Brack. Fil, U, 8. Expl. Exped. p. 48 ;—D. palmata | 
J. Sm, (as relates to Cuming's n. 52 ; not Polyp. ee BI.) 
The specimen figured is from Malacca. 
Hab. Malacca, Java, Luzon. | | : 1 : | 
PLATE No. COXIV. 
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