ALSOPHILA. 
Gen. char. (omitted by mistake at page 20, Ferns of Southern India.) 
Sori naked, or sometimes spuriously (û. e. squamoso) involucrate ; the receptacles globose or columnar, medial or axillary. 
Involucre non-apparent or represented by a bullate scale, or a series of jointed hairs. Veins simple, forked, paralled-forked, or pinnate, 
from a central costa ; venules free, unisoriferous. 
Fronds large, herbaceous or sub-coriaceous, bi-pinnate or decompound. Trunk or caudex thick erect, sometimes branching, often 
arborescent (Moore) ; this genus differs from Polypodium in its elevated receptacle and in the obliquely compressed form of the spore-cases. 
ALSOPHILA SQUAMULATA. (J. Sm. et Hook.) Frond bi-pinnate, partial rachis slightly squamose, pinnules all petio” 
` late, sterile ones oblong-lanceolate, fertile portions contracted coriaceous glossy as if varnished ending in an acuminated serrulated point 
pinuatifid scarcely half way down to the rachis, segments ovate obtuse serrate, the margins thickened or very slightly recurved, veins 
simple, sori frequently confined to the lower part of the pinnules and placed close to the costa of the segments.—Hook, Sp. Fil. 1-51, 
J, Sm. En. Fil. Philipp. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. v. iii. p. 419;—Hook. Gen. Fil, t. 100 ;—Bl. En. Fil Jav. 243 ? 
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The specimen figured is from Mount Ophir—(Griffith.) 
Hab. Mount Ophir, Malacca, Phillippine Islands, Java ? 
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