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4. xLEOPELTIS NORMALIS (Don.) Caudex very long, creeping or scandent, often as thick as a Writing-pen, the young 

 portions clothed with black subula to-setaceous squarrose scales, in age perfectly smooth, stipites very numerous on the caudex, more or 

 less approximate, 1-2 inches long, and as well as the costa reddish stramineous, fronds firm-meinbranaceous, glabrous, varying extremely 

 in sizes 1-2 feet or more long, f of an inch to 2 inches wide, lanceolate or elongato-lanceolate or loriform, generally long and finely acumi- 

 nate, gradually attenuated and decurrent at the base, entire sub-falcate or ftexuose j venation slightly prominen t especially beneath, costules 

 none, veins forming rather large bat very irregular areoles with free included veinlets, sori mostly compital, rather large, arranged in a 

 single regular series nearer the costa than to the margin or in a waved line partially scattered or very copious, and irregularly dispersed ovef 

 the whole under-surface of the frond.— Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 69 \—MetUn. Polyp, p. 86, t. 1, /. 41-43. — Var. a, normalis ; frond 1-1| foot 

 long, \ an inch to 1 inch wide ; — Polypod. normale, Bon. Prodr. Nep. p. 1 j—^Phymatodes, Pr. ; — Drynaria, J. Sm. ;— Var. /3, latifrons; 

 fronds 1-1| foot long, 1-2 inches wide, sori regularly uniserial ; — Var. y, sparsisora ; fronds 2-3 feet long, |-1 inch wide, sori irregularly 

 scattered and copious. — P. longifrons, Wall. Gat. n. 27 i ; — Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t 65 ; — Drynaria, Fee. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein (Rev. C. S. P. Parish). 



Hab. Var. a and y, Nepaul, Khasya, Assam (alt. 4-6,000 feet). Var. £ Malacca, Moulmein, (alt. 4,000 feet), China, Formosa. 



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