3 PLEOPELTIS RHYNCOPHYLLA (Hook.) Oaudex creeping, slender, paleaceous, sub-squarrose with subulate ferruginous 

 scales stipites scattered, slender, 1-2 inches long of the sterile frond, 2-4 of the fertile one, fronds firm, chartaceo-membranaceous, glossy, 

 slkhtlv thickened, remotely crenate ; sterile ones 1-2 inches long, elliptical, or sub-ovate, obtuse j fertile ones 3-6 inches long, lanceolate 

 from near the base gradually and long-acuminated, below cuneato-attenuated, venation distinct, slightly prominent, the costules are 

 connected by transverse veins forming areoles which enclose free veinlets which latter sometimes unite with opposite veins, the son are 

 mostly confined to the narrow acuminated apex and when mature are very large in a single series on each side of the costa.-£«*. Sp. 

 Fil. v. 65 ;—Hooh Ic. Plant 955 (or t. 55 of Cent, of Ferns J. 



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



Hab. Assam, Khasya, (alt. 4,000 feet), Birmah. 



PLATE No. IX. 



