PTERIDEiE. 



PTERIS DACTYLINA (Hook.) 4 inches to a foot high, caudex creeping sending out wiry fibres, fronds sub-conaceo- 

 membranaceous rather rigid 2-6 inches long digitate, pinn. 3-5 subradiate linear sessile slightly tapering below much and narrowly 

 acuminated the sterile portions coarsely and deeply spinuloso-serrate especially towards the apex, involucres rather broad submtramargmal 

 membranaceous close-pressed, veins simple, stipites numerous tufted very slender and as well as the nudnbs of the puuua (very 

 prominent beneath) stamineous. Hook Sp. FiL ii. 160, 



Hab, Sikkim— Himalaya, (Dr. Thomson.) 



PLATE No. XXIII. 



