~2± 



PTERIDEJ3. 



PTERIS GrIFFITHII (Hook,) A foot and more high and slender graceful, caudex none, roots of tufted fibres, frond ovato- 

 lanceolate sub-menbranaceous pinnate, upper pinnse simple 2 or 3 of the lower pairs again pinnated simple, pinnae and pinnules exactly 

 linear J an inch to an inch and a half long obtuse, mostly opposite, every where entire sessile with the base adnate and decurrent so as 

 to form a narrow wing to the rachis, lowest pinnules of the inferior pinnae sometimes again divided, terminal pinnule always elongated, 

 veins distant once forked, veinlets divaricating, sori continuous, involucres sub-intramarginal membranaceous not reaching to the apex, 

 stipites slender longer than the fronds stramineous-brown and a little scaly at the base. — Hook 8p. Fil. ii. 170. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's " Species Filicum." 



Hab. Mishmee, Assam, 



PLATE No, XXIV. 



