GONIOPTERIS. (See Ferns of S. India, p. 57.) 



1. GrONIOPTERIS LINE ATA (Coleb.) Stipes 1| foot and more long rather stout, scaleless, glossy, and as well as the rachis 

 strongly tinged with red (rarely stramineous) fronds 1-2-3 feet long, broad-oblong or lanceolate, coriaceo-submembranaceous, pinnated, 

 glabrous, pinnae numerous rather distant patent sessile 5-8 inches long, \ an inch or little more broad (on sterile fronds sometimes 

 exceeding an inch) from an obliquely cuneato-truncate sessile base, (lower ones rather more attenuated and subpetiolate) lanceolate or 

 elongato-oblong, finely acuminated at the apex, the margin coarsely and sharply submucronato-serrated, serratures pointing a little 

 forward uniform, costae prominent beneath of the same colour as the rachis and stipes generally reddish, veinlets about 8-14 pairs often 

 alternate, of which all are connivent except 2-3 short pairs in the teeth of the serratures, sori in 2 series on the middle of the veinlets.— 

 Rook fSp. Fit v, 12 ;—Colebr. in Herb. Wall, and Wall. Cat, n. 300 ;— P. costatum, Wall Herb, (not Goniopteris costata of Brack) 



The specimen figured is from Birmah (Captain the Honorable J. Dormer.) A^jy^^^^ ^^ * owc«^ JTho^~**. <2^r. „ 



Hab, Nepaul, Kumaon, Simla, Nimhlow, Silhet ; Mishmee, Ceylon % 



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