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ADIANTEiE. 



AdIANTUM VENUSTUM. (Don.) Rather small ovate tri-piimate, pinnules firm membranaceo-chartaceous glabrous and 

 slightly glaucous beneath shortly petiolulate obovato-cuneate rarely sub-rhombeo-acuminate striated, the superior margin rounded scarcely 

 ever or but slightly 2 or 3 lobed finely dentato-serrate, fertile lobes with 2 rarely 3 notches, each notch bearing a rather large sorus at 

 the bottom, involucres reniform-cordate sub-membranaceous, stipes and slender rachis everywhere ebeneous glossy glabrous. —Hook Sp. 

 FU. ii. 40.— A. venustum, Don. Prodr. Fil. Nep. 16.— Wall. Cat. 81. 



The specimen figured is from Dalhousie, (Captain Dyas.) 



Hab. Nepaul, Simla, Mussoorie, Sreenuggur, Kamroop, Meerufc, Khasya, (6,500 elevation,) Aifghanistan. 



PLATE No. XX. 



