191 
 PTERIS. (See “ Ferns of Southern India,” p. 11.) 
PTERIS DALHOUSLE. (Hook) 2-3 feet and more high, frond ample 1-2 feet, subcoriaceo-membranaceous glossy ۔‎ 
bi-tri-below quadripinnate, pinnz and pinnules all remote, superior pinne simple (undivided) and pinnules all linear-sublanceolate - 
very much elongated acuminated and serrated, remarkably alato-decurrent on the rachis, lower primary pinne not decurrent petiolat | 
falcate (lowest pair sometimes bipartite), the upper margin entire (rarely with one segment), the lower pinnate (or pinnatifid) with 5- 
(more or less) long pinnæ decurrent so as to forma very broad winged rachis, veinlets simple or forked, involucres subintramarginal 
narrow membranaceous continuous along the rachis rarely reaching the acuminated apices, stipes very glossy and as well as the fir 
prominent costa bright glossy, tawny or purple-brown, Hook, Sp. Fil. ii, 170, 
The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's Sp, Fil. 
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