PTEPJDE^. 

 CAMPTERIA. (See Ferns of Southern India, p. 14.) 



CaMPTERIA WaLLICHIANA (Ag.) Frond ample glabrous sub-membranaceous 3-partite, lateral branches compoundly 

 divided terminal one elongated pinnated, pinnae numerous sessile 4-6 inches long, linear-lanceolate acuminate deeply pinnatifid, segments 

 linear-lanceolate obtuse, sterile ones serrulate all approximate about | an inch long, basal veins monarcuate, the rest free and forked 

 rarely a solitary areole at the base of the costule, stipes very long, 5-6 feet stout rich castaneoua and as well as the paler-coloured rachises 

 very smooth and glossy —Hooh Sp. Fil. ii. 206.— Pteris Wallichiana, Ag. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 69.— Pt. umbrosa, Wall. Cat. n. 109 

 (not of Br.J—Vt. pellucens, Ag. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 43 1— Pt. connexa, J. Sm. Fil. Philip, in Hook Bot. Journ. iii.> 405 (name 

 only)— Pt. pectinata, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepaul,p. 15.— (Agardh refers to this Pt. aspericaulis, Wall., which is however a slight var. of 

 Pt. quadriaurita.) 



The specimen figured is from Sikkim (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab. Kumaon, Gurhwal, Sikkim, Khasya, Luzon. 



PLATE No. XXV. 



