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لام‎ 
NIPHOBOLUS. 
NIPHOBOLUS NUMMULARLEFOLIUS. (Mett.) 6 slender,  wide-ereeping, filiform, clothed with bright 
ferruginous fibrillose scales ; stipe erect, 4-1 inch long, often scaly ; fronds dimorphous, the barren ones roundish or elliptical, the 
fertile ones longer and narrower, 11-2 inches long, 4-3 inch broad, texture subcoriaceous, upper surface naked, lower densely coated 1 
with loose ferrüginous woolly tomentum ; main veins distinct, connected by 4 to6 arched areole ; sore close, scattered, ome 2 
covering the whole surface. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 54 ;—Syn, Fil. 351 ;—Galeoglossa Presl. 
| Plate 186 of the Ferns of S. India, figured as this species, is I believe only a form of Drymoglossum piloselloides ; if so, this E 
fern must be excluded from the S. Indian Flora. I am far from satisfied that the fern here figured is more than a variety of the same تت‎ 
Drymoglossum, and its venation hardly entitles it to be ned in Niphobolus. The main veins are scarcely distinct, or at least not - E 
always so. | : | | 
The specimen figured is from Assam. 
Hab. N. India, Philippines, Malacca. 
PLATE No, CCCXX. 
