22 
bx 
ALSOPHILA. 
ALSOPHILA ORNATA. (J. Scott) Arborescent, stipes paleaceous at the base, slightly muricated, and. as well as the 
main rachises glossy purplish-brown ; fronds herbaceo-membranaceous, upper surface glabrous, brownish green when dry, sparsely scaly on 
the rachis and costa, increasingly so on the underside of the latter ; primary pinnæ oblongo-lanceolate, rather abruptly contracted into a. 
short deeply pinnatifid apex ; pinnules nearly all petiolate lanceolate-oblong acuminate, deeply nearly to the costules pinnatifid, segments 
oblong ovate in the sterile, (narrow oblong in the fertile), in both obtuse slightly falcate serrated ; veins forked, rarely twice forked, with 
a few simple ones ; sori rather small, about the middle or below the middle of the veinlets on the lower half of the segments. J. Scott 
MS. | | E 
Hab. Sikkim, on the banks of the Rungbee, at an elevation of 2,500 feet ; called Dang pashin, and Poschok by the Lepchas. 4 
PLATE No. CCCXLIT. 
