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PTERIS. 
PTERIS EXCELSA. (Gaud.) Frond ample 5-6 feet long submembranaceous, light green pinnate, pinnæ large remote 6 
inches to a foot long, numerous, ovato-lanceolate caudate sessile, lower ones long-petiolate, lowest pair of pinnæ bipartite all deeply 
pinnatifid, nearly to the costa, segments (2-4 inches long) from a broad. base linear-lanceolate obtuse serrated subfalcate, lower base decur- 
rent, velns free forked at or nearithe middle, involucres continuous from the base almost to the apex rather broad, stipes very stout and 
flexuose, rachises bright castaneous glossy. Zook. Sp. Fil. 11. 188. 
Brachenr. Fil. of the U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 115 ;一 Pt terminalis, Wall. Cat. n. 101. 
U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 115 ;—Pt. firma, Wall. Cat. n. 100 (segments 4 an inch broad. ) 
Ag. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 20. Bracken. Fil. of the 
The plate is taken from Sir W. Hooker’s Sp. Fil. Z have lately received 2 fine fronds from Col, Dyas, collected near Nynee Tal, 
but the lowest pair of pinne is not bi-partite in either of them. 
Hab. Nepal, Silhet, Simla, Gurhwal, Kumaon, Nyee Tal, Mountains of Ava, 
and وه‎ ea. PLATE No. COXVIIL 
A 
Gaud. in Freye. Voy. Bot. p. 388. Ag. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 21. 
Mountains near Banos, Luzon, Sandwich Islands. 
PR WS وہ‎ A ٧ 
