230 
- Hu 
A LSOPHILA ALTERNANS. (Hook.) Unarmed or only with extremely minute distant tubercles on the base of the stipes 
fronds only (?) pinnate, pinnz very remote, petiolate alternate oblong lanceolate membranaceo-coriaceous acuminated deeply pinnatifid - 
almost to the rachis, at the base again pinnated, segments and pinnules oblong rounded at the apex with rather an acute point nearly 
entire, veins all free forked near the base rarely simple, sori on the veinlets above the fork, (seldom on the axil) copious, forming a series 
half way between the margin and the costa, each furnished with a little pellicular peltate scale (spuriously involucrate) covered and con- — - 
cealed by the sorus.—Hook. Syn. Fil ; —Hemitelia ? alternans. Hook, Sp. Fil. 1l. p. 29. Hook, Ic. Pl. v. 7, t. 622 ;—Polypodium - 4 
alternans, Wall. Cat. n. 329, | | کے‎ < E 
'The specimen figured is from Penang—(Wallich.) 
Hab, Penang. 
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