 CHEILANTHES. 
CHEILANTHES NITIDULA. (Wall) Caudex short creeping stout, stipites 2-5 inches long very numerous and crowded , 
‘hispid with subulate deciduous chaffy dark-brown scales, and as well as the rachis (which is downy on one side) ebeneous, frond 3-4 ot 
rarely, 5 inches long subdeltoideo-oblong acuminate (sterile ones broader), coriaceo-membranaceous pale, green glabrous, pinnato-pinnatifid | 
below sub-bipinnate, pinnæ approximate nearly opposite broad-lanceolate dimidiate (the inferior half being broadest), deeply pinnatifid 
nearly to the rachis, lowest pair again subpinnate and the secondary pinnæ pinnatifid, lobes all oblong entire or sinuate gradually com- 
ing to a sharp point, the lower base decurrent, the lowest inferior lobes the longest ; involucres subintramarginal continuous rarely here 
and there interrupted, broad flat membranaceous brown close-pressed frequently lobed and crenated and transversely wrinkled. ook. 
Sp. Fil. ii. 119. Hook. Jc. Pl. X. ined ;—Pteris nitidula Wall. Cat. n. 89 ;—Allosorus nitidulus, Prest, > | 
The specimen figured is from the Himalayas, (Dr. Stewart). | 
Hab. Kumaon, Simla, Pundkester. | | 
PLATE No. COXXII | 
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