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ATHYRIUM, 
| ATHYRIUM BREVISORUM. (Wall) Caudex ? stipes 14 foot and more long stramineous-brown below, scarcely a line 
wide glossy, frond 14-2 ft, long ovato-lanceolate membranaceous bi-tripinnate, primary pinnse long-petiolate remote erecto-patent a foot 
and more long broad-lanceolate acuminate, secondary pinnse 5-6 inches long lanceolate nearly sessile pinnated, pinnules numerous 
approximate oblong-lanceolate much acuminate horizontally patent 1-14 inch long coarsely serrated rarely subpinnatifid the serratures 
very acute almost mucronate lowest pinnules more distant on short petiolules, intermediate ones more approximate the lower base decur- 
rent, upper ones confluent, veins pinnated, veinlets forked once or more, sori generally in two rows oblique near the costule in the pinnules 
. that are pinnatifid extending to the lobes small short-linear straight or lunate, involucres slightly convex jagged at the margin, main 
rachis stramineous glossy flexuose. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 229 ;— Wall. n. 220, (not Meit). 
The specimen figured is from the mountains near Ava—(Wallich), 
Hab. Ava mountains, Mishmee, Port Natal ? 
PLATE No, COXLI, 
