2. GoNIOPHLEBIUM ARGUTUM (Wall.) Caudex thick as a writing-quill, squarrose with subulate blackish or brown 

 glossy scales, stipites 3-4 inches to a span long, testaceous-brown glossy, fronds firm-membranaceous, glabrous, 1-2 feet long, 8-10 inches 

 broad, pinnated, pinnae distant, sub-horizontally patent, 4-6 inches long, |-§ inch wide from a broader, but obtusely and oblique cuneated 

 or sub-truncated base (rarely rotundato-auricled), elongato-oblong, acuminate, rather obtusely serrated, lower ones often opposite, the rest 

 alternate, superior ones more or less adnate and decurrent, terminal one similar to the rest, veins forming a costal series of large oblong 

 soriferous areoles, marginal veins ending in a thickened apex within the margin all free, sori-orbicular, superficial at the apex of the free 

 veins in the costal areoles. Hook 8p. FiL v. 32. Wall. Cat, n. 308, 



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



Hab, Nepaul, Kumaon, Nynee Tal, Sikkim, Khasya, Gowhatty Plains. 



PLATE No. VI. 



