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G, PLEOPELTIS CAPITELLATA (Wall.) Caudex creeping, furnished with hair-like ovate or lanceolate scales, stipiteg 

 1 foot and more long, fronds 1-2 feet long, membranaceous or coriaceo-membranaceous, glabrous, ovato-oblong, pinnated, (young fronds 

 often simple,) pinnae 1 to 21 pairs opposite or alternate articulated on the rachis, sessile or more or less petiolate, 5-9 inches long, J to 2 

 inches broad, obtuse at the base, finely acuminated at the apex, (often with a distinct membranaceous margin,) entire or slightly sinuato* 

 lobate-costules, straight extending to the margin, these are connected by transverse veins with 3-4 series of areoles again divided into lesser 

 areoles including free divaricating veinlets, sori large, superficial in a single series near the costa or 1-2 in the primary areoles. — Wall, 

 Cat. 306, Phymatodes capillata ; — Hoolc. Sp. Fit. v. 90 ; — Phymatodes tennicauda, HooL I. c. ;~ Phy. Himalayensis, Hook I c. 91 ;-— « 

 Polyp, juglandifolium, Don. ; — Polyp, venustum, Wall. c. 305 (not Desv.) 



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



Hab. Nepaul, Bhotan, Sikkim, Ehasya, Assam, Kumaon (7,000 ft.), Srinuggur, Simla, Nynee Tal e 



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