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OLEANDRA WALLICHII. (Presl.) ; caudex creeping, rooting, branched thicker than a goose-quill, densely clothed with 
subulate crisped ferruginous, spreading and often reflexed scales thickly tufted at the extremity of the branches, stipites distant 4 an inch 
to 2 inches long and sometimes paleaceous jointed close to the base so that the very short lower articulation is concealed among the 
| scales, fronds 6-12-14 inches long membranaceous subpellucid opaque on the surface pilosulous subelliptical-oblong, the sides parallel, 
the base often obtuse and rounded, the apex suddenly and sharply acuminate, sori compact almost imbricated in a continuous line or 
chain close to and parallel with the costa on each side, involucres reniform ciliated opening towards the margin. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 158;— 
Aspid. Wallichii. Hook. Ex. Fi. i. p. 6. t. 5. Ke. in Schk. Fil. Suppl. p. 36. 19;—Oleandra Wallichii, Tent. Pterid. p. 78;—Neuronia 
asplenioides, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 6. | 
The specimen figured is from Simla. 
Hab. Nepal, North of India from Simla, and À cn in the West to Bhotan in the East, Assam, Khasya, Java ? 
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