2. PlEOPELTTS SINUOSA (Wall.) Caudex much branched, long-creeping or seandent on trees, sparingly radiculose, £ an 

 Inch to 2 inches thick, almost woody when dry, probably carnose when recent studded, as it were, with large conical processes upon which 

 the stipites are or have been articulated, and which appear to increase much in size after the fronds have fallen, the whole densely covered 

 (as it were tessellated) with nearly orbicular appressed whitish peltate scales with a dark spot in the centre, stipites 1-2 inches long, 

 glabrous and scaleless, fronds sub-dimorphous, sub-coriaceo-membranaceous, glabrous ; sterile ones 3-6-7 inches long, f -1 inch broad, sub~ 

 elliptical, oblong obtuse entire ; fertile ones longer, sometimes a foot-16 inches long, ^-f of an inch wide, linear-elongato-oblong obtuse, the 

 margins more or less sinuated, the base in both attenuato-decurrent, venation copious, anastomosing, forming large very irregular areleao 

 filled with lesser ones (formed by more slender veins), and these include branched or simple veinlets which occasionally again anastomose, 

 sori remote, large, oblong, immersed in a cavity which forms pustules on the upper side arranged in a single series nearer the margin than 

 the costa.— Hook Sp. Fil. v. 61 ;—Wall. Cat. n 2231. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's Icones Filicum, 



Hab. Straits of Malacca, Amboyna, Isle of Jobi, New Hebrides, Java, Mergui, Birmah. 



PLATE No. VIII. 



