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NEPHRODIUM. 
NEPHRODIUM CRINIPES. (Hook.) ; stipes nearly 1 foot long and as well as the rachis stout and singularly erect and 
stiff stramineous, the former shaggy with copious long spreading flexuose subulate dark-brown scales which extend some way up the 
. rachis, frond more than 2 feet long, submembranaceous quite glabrous from a broad base oblong-acuminate copiously pinnated, pinnæ 9-6 
inches long less than 4 an inch broad, sessile horizontally patent from a broad base linear-oblong, finely acuminated pinnatifid more than 
- half way down to the rachis with oblong subfalcate obtuse entire segments, lowest segments a little longer than the rest, lowest pair of . 
veinlets united, sori on all the veinlets and on nearly every pinnæ, large cordato-reniform very membranaceous. Hook, Sp. Fil, iv. 71. 
The specimen figured is from Sikkim-Himalaya (alt. 1000 ft.) 
Hab. Miku Himalaya. 
PLATE No. CCLXIII. 
