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CHEILANTHES. 
CHEILANTHES FRAGILIS. (Hook.) Caudex none except the copious tufted wiry fibres, from which the stipites arise 
in tufts, main rachis and slightly scaly stipes (3-5 inch long) clothed with a greyish glandulose tomentum, fronds of an opaque brownish 
green color, submembranaceous, 8-15 inches long, erect, rather stiff but fragile, oblongo-lanceolate, pinnate with the pinnæ pinnatifid, | 
pinnz alternate distant horizontal up to 2 inches long, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis (which is furnished with subulate scales), segments 
crenated, lobes obtuse and partially ciliated at the margin, veins pinnated simple or forked, sori approximate roundish, Sarg nares ciliated - 
formed of the slightly changed lobes of the margin. 
The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker’s Icones Filicum, . 
Hab. Moulmein, Tiusstona Rocks, بلط همه‎ — 
PLATE No. COXXII. 
