269 x 4 
PJECILOPTERIS. ہے‎ 1 
P ÆCILOPTERIS PRESLIANA. (Hook. Caudex stout creeping paleaceous with narrow attenuated lanceolate scales, … 
stipes 6-10 inches long, more or less scaly as is the rachis and petioles, fronds 6-12 inches long pinnated glabrous, pinnæ submembrana- 1 
ceous remote subopposite petiolate, 2-4 inches long 4 an inch wide, narrow lanceolate acuminated at both ends, rachis more or less winged ` | 
specially towards the apex of the frond ; fertile fronds generally longer stipitate, pinnæ much contracted, wholly or sometimes only par- Ñ 
tially fertile, costules evident, connected by generally 2 pair of opposite veinlets which meet at an acute angle from which proceed a veinlet 
which is either free or joined to the veins above marginal veins free terminating in a dot within the margin. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 265. " 
en Fée Acrost. p. 92, t. 39. 7. 1;—Acrostichum punctulatum, Pr. (not Sw.) a Presl. 
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The specimen figured is from Coorg, where I have only lately discovered it in great abundance on rocks in the bed of a river at | 
the foot of the Bhagamundal ghat, just below Talle Cavery and at the confines of Malabar, Coorg and South Canara. 
Hab. Coorg in rivers at = foot of the ghats (and probably in similar localities in Malabar and South Canara), Cone 1 
> Philippine Islands. 
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