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ALSOPHILA. - Bp أ تک‎ 
ALSOPHILA DECIPIENS. (J. Scott) Arborescent, stipes strongly aculeated, of a mahogany-brown color and at the base - 
paleaceous, muricated furfuraceous and of a pale brown color upwards ; fronds coriaceous glabrous greyish green (not glaucous) beneath ۔‎ 
partial rachis muricate and the costules of the pinnules and segments furnished with small membranaceous scales, primary pinne t 
oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate pinnules pinnatifid down to nearly the rachis, segments linear oblong, acute falcate and serrated, with the 
margins more or less recurved particularly in the fertile ones, which thereby appear narrower than the others ; veins forked or doubly — 
forked or pinnate with 3, 4, 5 veinlets, sori close to the costule. | E 
The specimen figured is from the tropical forests of Sikkim at an elevation of 2,000 feet above the sea, where it was lately r 
discovered by Dr. Anderson and introduced into the Caleutta Botanical Gardens ; it has been named by Mr. J. Scott. It is called _ 
“ Pugsheck nock” by the Lepchas. | 1 
Alsophila Brunoniana, Plate LXXX VI of this work (a bad figure of a poor specimen), is probably the same as Alsophila 
contaminans. The Alsophila contaminans is called “ Pulai? by the Lepchas; Als. glabra, “Pulai keep ;” Alsophila - 001083, 
؛‎ Pushen ;” and Alsophila latebrosa, “ Pugsjeek.” | | 
PLATE No. CCCXI. 
