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: | ss GYMNGORAMMA. 
GYMNOGRAMMA OPACA, (Spr.) Caudex ? stipites 11 and more feet long, fronds 2 feet and more long, nearly a foot 
wide at base, subdeltoideo-ovate acute membranaceous, pubescent on the rachises and coste bi-pinnate below, pinnate in the middle, _ 
pinnatifid at the apex, lower primary pinne petiolate 6 inches long 3 inches wide oblongo-ovate, their pinnules 1-14 inch long less than | b 
4 an inch wide, oblong sessile and adnate and slightly decurrent at the base, obtuse or acute lobato-pinnatifid, the lobes retuse or emar- 
ginate, intermediate primary pinnæ deeply pinnatifid sinnuato-serrate, veins fasciculato-pinnate, a fascide to each lobe of the pinnules or 
large segments, soriferous only at the base of the lower branches, sori oblong forked.—Hook. Sp. Fil. v.p. 143. Gymnogramma 
obtusata. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 97. t. 43. and Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 143 ;—G. opaca Spr. ;—Phegopteris opaca, Mett, Pheg. p. 15 ;—Hemiomitis, 
Don, ;—Gymnog. arborescens, De. Vriese, in Herb. Hook. 
The specimen figured is from Nepal—(Wallich.) 
Hab. Nepal, Khasya, Java. 
PLATE No. COXXXVIIL 
