200 . 
PLEOPELTIS. 
PLEOPELTIS Leaman NI. (Mett) Caudex stout, creeping clothed with ovate or orbicular glabrous scales each end-- 
ing in a very long acumination, stipes 8 inches or more long, glabrous as well as the rachis and frond, fronds 14 to 2 feet long coriaceo- 
submembranaceous pinnate, pinnæ opposite or subopposite sessile with a gland-like articulation at the base (terminal one long petioled) 
linear oblong entire with a caudate acumination 4-6 inches long about 7 of an inch broad, superior base obliquely excised, inferior 
base amplexicaule, costules evident not extending quite to the margin connected by the transverse veins which form about 4 series of 
areoles in which are free simple or forked veinlets with clavate apices, sori irregular, generally 4 to 6 in two rows between the costules. 
Mett. Poly. p. 229. : | à 
The specimen figured is from Darjeeling. It is nearly allied to P. Moulmeinensis, Pl. N o. CCV. of this work which Mr. Baker 
informs me is P. juglandifolium (Don.) This latter name Sir W. Hooker gives as a synonym to P. capitellata, Wallich, but he does not 
appear to describe the present species. 
PLATE No. CCLX. 
