PTERIDEiE. 

 ON YCHIUM. (See Ferns of Southern India, p. 10.) 



OnYCHIUM LUCIDUM (Sp.) Caudex creeping ? stipites six inches to a foot and more long, and as well as the raclrises 

 pale brown or stramineous, frond a foot and more long, ovato-acuminate membranaceo-coriaceous, glossy 3-4 times pinnatisected (primary 

 and secondary divisions pinnated,) segments uniform or nearly so in the sterile and fertile ones, all narrow linear a little tapering below 

 ultimate ones moderately long, all gradually acuminated (not mucronate even in the fertile ones), sori oblong short occupying nearly the 

 whole of the back of the segments, involucres white or cream-colour membranaceous meeting at the back. — Hoolc. Sp. Fil. ii. 121.— 

 Spreng. Syst. Veget. iv. p. 66— Hoolc. Gen, Fil. t, xi.— Cheilanthes lucida, Wall. Cat. n. 69;— Cheilanthes contigua, Wall. Cat, n, 69;— 

 Leptostegia lucida, Don. Prodr. Fl. Fep. p. 14 ;— Scolopendrium lucidum, Hamilton's MS. (fide Don,) 



The specimen figured is from Nynee Tal, (Mr. Oldham.) 



Hab. Kumaon, Nepaul ; (700 to 7,500 feet elevation,) Mussoorie, Gurwal, Simla, Khasya, Mishmee, Nynee Tal. 



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