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MENISCIUM. 
MENISCIUM CUSPIDATUM. (BL) Stipes I -2 feet long stout naked ; fronds 2-4 feet long 1 foot or more broad, E 
glabrous rather distant petioled lanceolate attenuated at both ends, ending in a very long acumination 6-9 inches long, 1-3 inches broad 
crenate at the margin, texture subcoriaceous, veins approximated, connivent ; transverse veinlets from 6 to 20 pairs on each side, venules 
generally free and not joining the base of the areoles above them ; sori copious, entirely covering the transverse velnlets. Baker E 
Fil, p, 392 ; ;— Blume t, 45. 
The specimen figured is from the Himalayas. 
Hab. Himalayas, Malacca, Philippines. 
- PLATE No, COCCIX. 
