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ASPIME.E. 



PoLYSTICHUM (LEPITOSUM (Wall.) Caudex a short thick scaly rhizome, scales often ciliated, stipites tufted slender 2-6 

 inches long, stramineous as well as the rachis, fronds 4 inches to a span and more long oblong— or linear-lanceolate acute rather than 

 acuminate chartaceo-membranaceous often glossy pinnated, pinnae rather distant horizontal §-lJ inch long petiolate from an entire 

 obliquely cuneate truncate and obtusely auricled superior base, trapezoideo-ovate obtuse or acute sharply but scarcely mucronato-serrate, 

 inferior base incised, sori uniseriate on the pinnae and the auricles between the costa and the margin, involucres peltate ciliate at length 

 deciduous.— Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 13.— Wall. Cat. n. 3Q7.—Metten, Asspid. p. 367,— Polystichum, Schott. Pr>— Aspidium obliquum, Don, 

 Nepaul p. 43 (fide Moore.) 



The specimen figured is from Nynee Tal, (Oldham.) 



Hab. Northern India especially in the Himalayas (elevation 4—10,000 feet,) Nepaul, Simla, Kumaon, Nynee Tal, Lachen, 

 Sikkim, Bhotan, 



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