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THAMNOPTERIS. 
THAMNOPTERIS SIMONSIANA. (Hook. Small, fronds 11 foot long, 14 inch broad ccespitose chartaceous, elo ngato- 
lanceolate abruptly and narrowly acuminate (rostrate) gradually and very much attenuated below into a short stipes, veins approximate 
su berecto-patent, sori copious rather distant, three-fourths the length of the veins and occupying three-fourths of the superior portion of 
the frond. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 81. Ic. Plant, t. 925. Mett. Asp. p. 86. | 
The specimen figured is from Khasya—(Simons). | 
Hab. Khasya and Unker Hills. 
PLATE No. COXLVII. 
