NIPHOBOLUS SUBFURFURACEOUS. (Hook.) ; caudex short branched creeping, the younger branches paleaceous with 
ferruginous subulate scales, stipites subaggregated, 4-5 inches long, fronds 24-30 inches long 4-5 inches wide, broad-lanceolate or oblan- 
ceolate sharply acuminated below, gradually and much attenuated upon the stipes, glabrous above, minutely stellato-tomentose beneath, 
the tomentum thin, firm and close so as to appear subfurfuraceous or compactly pannose of a whitish color, costa stout, costules evident 
but not elevated, venation indistinct quite that of true Campy loneuron, the areoles from 15-20 in a series between the costa and the margin 
each with numerous include free soriferous veinlets, sori rather small, most copious all over the back of the frond elevated subglobose (not 
in the least sunk) forming as many arched series between the costules as there are areoles. ook. Sp. Fil. v. 52. 
The specimen figured is from Bhotan. 
Hab. Bhotan, Mishmee. 
کے‎ PLATE No. CCLIX. 
