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PLEOPELTIS. 
PLEOPELTIS HIMALAYENSIS. (Hook) Caudex creeping, clothed with bright ferruginous hair-like scales, stipitesa — 
span to 1 foot and more long, fronds 1-14 foot long, thin membranaceous, and sometimes pubescent or even subtomentose, glabrous 
subcoriaceous in age, pinnated, pinne almost invariably opposite sessile in distant pairs 5-8-9 inches long, by 14-2 inches broad from an ` 
obtuse base elliptical-oblong finely and long-caudately acuminated entire, but with a very distinct membranous margin, costules manifest 
connected by transverse veins forming areoles, of which one or all are soriferous ; these areoles are filled up with a network of lesser 
areoles which have free included veinlets, sori often large 1-2 in the primary areoles, hence they are 1-2 serial between each pair of d 
costules, and 8-4 serial in a direction parallel with the costa. Hook, Sp. Fil. v. 91 ;—Polypodium venustum. Wall. Cat. 305, not 
of Desv. ce oe x 
The specimen figured is from the Khasya hills (Dr. Jerdon). It is nearly allied to the broader varieties of Pleopeltis 4 
Lehmanni, but the veins are more distinct, and there is a distinct scariose edge, and the pinræ are fewer in number and broader. I formerly : 
united it with P. capitellata (Wall.), the P. juglandifolia Don., Pl. XII of this work, but that species appears to have invariably only 
one row of sori between the costa and margin. Since figuring the P. Lehmanni I have received copious specimens from the Himalayas - 
with much broader pinnæ unequally cordate at the base, Pleopeltis Moulmeinensis, Pl. CCV, is like Lehmanni in habit, but with the — 
sori of capitellata. A careful examination of living specimens of P. capitellata, Lehmanni, Himalayensis, and Moulmeinensis will | 
perhaps prove that they are all varieties of one protean species. 
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Hab, Nepal, Khasya, Bhootan (7,500 ft.), Sikkim. 
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