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NIPHOBOLUS. 
NIPHOBOLUS Boorutr. (Hook.) ; caudex ? stipes 16 inches long and stout in اط‎ tawny-brown paleaceous with 
imbricating ferruginous lanceolate scales only at the very base, frond carnoso-coriaceous, 16-24 inches long 3-4 inches wide, elliptico-lan- 
ceolate obtusely acuminate, moderately attenuated glabrous and punctated above with minute blackish dots (probably corresponding with 
the receptacles of the sori), beneath covered with a dense velvety mass of a stellated tomentum, primary costular veins evident U 
but not prominent united by transverse arched veins as in Campyloneurum, 10-12 series between the costules each including several free 
soriferous veinlets, sori small partially sunki In the tomentum SENE transverse lines between the costules and as many as there are 
areoles. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 53. 
The specimen figured is from Bhotan. 
Hab. Bhotan, Eastern Himalaya. 
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