PTERIDEiE. 



LlTOBEOGHIA LUDENS (Wall.) Caudex long creeping branched, thicker than a crow's quill, scaly, throwing out copious 

 woolly fibrous roots, fronds remote on the caudex long-stipitate coriaceous opaque pale beneath triangulari-subhastate and undivided, or 

 Lastately 5 lobed or deeply 3 lobed or 3 partite and pedate, the terminal lobe again 3 or pinnatifidly 5 lobed, the lateral lobes pinnatifid 

 more or less deeply on the inferior side (deormm pinnatifidis,) segments acuminate broad lanceolate or long-linear, veins everywhere 

 laxly reticulated, the areoles* oblong and mostly parallel or nearly so with the costa and margin, sori on the most deeply divided and 

 narrowest fronds continuous, stipes very long and as well as the main rachises beneath black-ebeneous. — Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 210, — < 

 Pteris ludens, Wall. Cat.n. 88.— Doryopteris Wallichii, J. Sm. En. Phil. Philipp. in Hook Bob Joum. iii. p. 404. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein (Rev, Parish.) 



Hab. Burmab, Luzon, 



PLATE No. XXTII. 



