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PTERIDE.E. 

 PTERIS. (See Ferns of Southern India, p. 11.) 



PTERIS CALOMELANOS (Link.) Glabrous, caudex short thick very scaly, fronds subspithameous csespitose sub-coriaceous 

 oblong-triangular bipinnate, pinnules all petiolulate cordato — (rarely subhastato)— triangular very obtuse entire sometimes sub-tri- 

 lobate or sinuate at the margin, the sinus deep and narrow, veins dichotomously radiated, sori continuous, involucres membranaceous, 

 stipites short scaly at the base and as well as the slender rachises and petioles black-ebeneous very glossy. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 140.— 

 Link. Fil. Sort. Berol. p. 61.— Fee. Gen. Fil. p. 129;— Allosorus calomelanos, Fred. Tent. Fterid. p. 153.— Hook. Bot. Mag 

 Pteris calomelanos, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 106.— Willd. Sp. Plant v. p. 393.— Kze. in Linn. p. 525—SchlechL Adumbr. F\ 

 24 j — Platyloma, J. Sm. Pteris hastata, Thunb. (not of others.) 



The specimen figured is from Simla. 



Hab. S. Africa, elevation 400 to 4 ooo W- ^ - * --' ■ ^ — " " " 



