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ADIANTE.E. 

 ADIANTUM. (See Ferns of Southern India, p. I.) 



ADIANTUM PaRISHII (Hook.) Small csespitoae no distinct caudex, roots few fibrous tomentose, fronds orbicular 

 flabellate membraneous pellucid, sterile ones crenato-dentate, fertile ones pauci (3-5) lobate, sinuses deep soriferous, veins originating 

 from the base fiabellato-divergent repeatedly diehotomous, stipes slender filiform ebeueous-black shining articulated at the summit.— 

 Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 237, and Fil. ExoL i. pi. 51. 



The specimens figured are from Moulmein (The Rev. C. S. P. Parish). 



Hab. Moulmein on a limestone rock (called Twa-Kabin,) 2,000 feet elevation. 



PLATE No. XYI. 



